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Dr. Thomas Francis Jr announced that the polio vaccine, which was released the previous year, was safe, and successful in preventing polio.
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Walter Disney opens the theme park Disneyland in California. The Park is still open today and receives about 18 million visitors a year.
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A 1955 amendment changed the minimum wage from $0.75 an hour to $1.00 an hour.
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U.S/ President, Dwight Eisenhower was on a golf course in Colorado when he had a heart attack and was taken to the Fitzsimons Army Hospital.
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The Vietnam War was a lengthy war between North and South Vietnam. The United States aided South Vietnam soon after the fighting began. This war lasted for 20 years, and an estimates 3 million people died from it.
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On her way home from work, African American, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was later arrested for it. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott.
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The Hard Disk Drive was invented in a California Laboratory and changed technology forever.
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In spite of his heart attack from the previous year, he still decided to run for a second term and won.
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The Little Rock Nine were the first nine African American students to attend a high school with white students. and they had federal troops as security.
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Taking the lead in the "Space Race" the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space.
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Following close behind the USSR in the Space Race, the United States launch a satellite called the Explorer I.
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America purchases Hawaii and it becomes the 50th state.
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It started with four college freshmen sitting at the F. W. Woolworth store lunch counter. Even though they were refused service, they sat there anyways. Eventually, after five days, there were 300 silent protesters at the store.
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John F. Kennedy becomes President of The United States.
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John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became president.
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President Lyndon B. Jones was re-elected as president and served a second term.
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In an effort to prevent the spread of communism the United States entered the Vietnam War and gave aid to the South Vietnamese Government.
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An estimated 50,000 rioters gathered outside the Pentagon and protested against the Vietnam War.
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While standing on the second-floor balcony of his motel, Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a bullet and was pronounced dead soon after. The perpetrator was James Earl Ray.
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Since Johnson couldn't serve another term, Richard M. Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Nixon won the election and became president.
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After an amendment extended the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 18-year-olds were now allowed to vote.
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Five burglars were arrested after being caught breaking into the office of the DNC. This was later traced back to President Nixon. He later was facing the threat of criminal charges and impeachment due to his actions.
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Richard Nixon ran for a second term in office and won.
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After signing the peace agreement, U.S. troops were returning home from Vietnam, and prisoners of war were being released.
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After the Watergate scandal, President Nixon decided to resign before he got impeached.
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After Nixon "resigned" Gerald R. Ford became President.