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Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to another passenger.
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Eisenhower signs the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, establishing the Interstate Highway System, one of the nation's largest public works projects.
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John F. Kennedy is elected as the nation's youngest president. Eisenhower is dismayed by Kennedy's loss in a tight race to his former running partner Richard Nixon.
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On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while traveling in a presidential motorcade past Dealey Plaza, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated.
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The US Marines arrived in Da Nang as the first wave of combat soldiers to enter South Vietnam, joining the 25,000 US military advisers already on the ground.
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At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Neil Armstrong, an American astronaut, became the first person to walk on the Moon at 02:56 GMT on July 21, 1969. In the 'Sea of Tranquility,' he stepped out of the Apollo 11 lunar module and onto the Moon's surface.
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The 26th amendment, passed by Congress on March 23, 1971, and ratified on July 1, 1971, gave American citizens aged eighteen and up the right to vote.