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Minimum wage increases from 75 cents to $1 an hour.
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Jonas Salk developes a vaccine for Polio.
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Disneyland was built in Anaheim, Califonia.
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The Stock Market suffers.
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The U.S. installs Deim as a Leader of South Vietnam.
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Rosa Parks incites Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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The government approved the Interstate Highway Act and built an interstate.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957
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The Russians launch Sputnik and the race to space beings.
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United States first attempt to launch a satellite to sapce exploded on the launchpad.
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The Amry at Cape Canaveral launched the first satellite into space, Explorer I.
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NASA is formed.
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Alaska and Hawaii become states.
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John F. Kennedy proposed a campaign to promise revive America's economy.
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Michael Harrington published "The Other America" which exposed the poverty of the United States.
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The stock market was s failing and America's economy was unstable.
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President Kennedy was assassinated.
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The U.S. was in the Vietnam War.
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The Great Inflation begins.
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Medicare and Medicaid were created.
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Minimum wage increases.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon.
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The Public Broadcasting System begins operations.
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The 26th Amendment is ratified, allowing 18 year olds to vote.
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Prsident Nixon visited China to normilize the relationship between the countries.
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Bill Gates founded MIcrosoft.