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Polio Vaccine
An effective polio vaccine is ready to be released. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat for a white man. -
Minimum wage
Minimum wage rises from $.75 to $1 an hour. -
Eisenhowers Heart Attack
Eisenhower suffers a heart attack after playing golf. -
Eisenhower Re-elected
President Eisenhower is Re-elected for a 2nd term. -
Interstate Highway System
Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act. -
Soviet test ICBM
Soviet Union announces that they have launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile. -
Sputnik
The Soviets launch Sputnik -
Little Rock Desegregation
Eisenhower sends military to enforce the desegregation laws. -
Rise of Nuclear Power Plant
First nuclear power plant begins to run. -
Translatlantic travel begins
The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) begins the first regular jet airline service across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Lunch Sit-Ins
Sit-in demonstrations begin in Charlotte, North Carolina as black students protest segregation and discrimination in schools. -
President JFK
JFK beats Nixon in the presidential race. -
First U.S. Combat Death
An American serviceman dies in Vietnam, the first combat death reported -
Bay of Pigs
A force of 1,500 Cuban exiles, trained and financed by the United States, lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the Castro regime. -
Kennedy Assassinated
President Kennedy is assassinated. -
President Lyndon B Johnson
Lydon B Johnson becomes President of the United States -
King Advocates Against War
Martin Luther King Jr. delievers a speech criticizing U.S.'s foreign policy with Vietnam. -
March on the Pentagon
Thousands march to the Pentagon to protest the war in vietnam -
MLK assassinated
James Earl Ray assassinated MLK -
President Nixon
President Nixon is Elected -
Nixon promises withdrawl from Vietnam
Nixon says he will pull the troops from Vietnam. -
26th amendment
The 26th amendment was ratified -
Watergate
Five men are caught burglarizing the headquarters for the Democratic National Committee, located at the Watergate hotel in Washington, D.C. -
Vietnam ceasefire is signed
Representatives from South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the United States sign a peace agreement in which a ceasefire is declared. -
Nixon resigns
President Nixon resigns amidst the Watergate scandal; his vice president Gerald Ford takes office. -
Fall of Saigon
The North Vietnamese take Saigon; the war in Vietnam ends.