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This vaccine is hoped to be greatly effective and will make the virus disappear that has been a great threat for many generations. -
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. She was arrested for disobeying Alabama law which required black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. -
The U.S. launches the first satellite called Explorer I, making entry into the "space race" with the Russians. -
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Tennessee. He was killed by James Earl Ray who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. -
Nixon is elected President of the U.S. -
Five men are caught breaking and entering the headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington D.C. This eventually ended in President Nixon's resignation. -
President Nixon resigns because of the Watergate Scandal.