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The Supreme Court orders that all public schools be integrated immediately.
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Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This prompted a series of boycotts that led to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.
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The first transatlantic phone cable is put into operation.
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The FBI arrests labor-leader Jimmy Hoffa through a bribery charge.
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U.S. Congress approves the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction ended, providing the additional protection of voting rights.
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Explorer I is launched by the US Army at Cape Canaveral.
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Alaska is admitted as the 49th state in the USA.
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The US recognizes the new Cuban government under rebel-leader Fidel Castro.
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Hawaii enters the USA as the 50th state.
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The first weather satellite, Tiros I, is launched by the United States.
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A United States U-2 recon plane is shot done by Soviet forces, leading to the capture of U.S. pilot Gary Powers and the cancellation of the Paris summit conference
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The Cuban Missile Crises begins in response to the Soviet Union building offensive missiles in Cuba when President John F. Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade of military equipment to the island.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson orders the continuous bombing of North Vietnam south of the 20th parallel.
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Martin Luther King is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a motel balcony.
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The Internet is invented by the U.S Department of Defense.
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The first Earth Day is celebrated by millions of Americans participating in anti-pollution demonstrations.
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Watergate begins when four men are arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C..
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Oil from Arab nations is banned from entering
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President Richard M. Nixon resigns presidency after admitting to his role in Watergate.
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Christy M. Lamb was born!!!!!!!!
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South Vietnam is overtaken by communist forces.