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