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The first major polio vaccine is released
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Eisenhower raised minimum wage from $.75 to $1.00 per hour.
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Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested.
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America's longest war
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Shippingport, Pennsylvania - first full-scale plant
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Beats Nixon in close election, becomes youngest president
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killed in Tennessee by James Earl Ray
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"The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continuous attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building."
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Resigns after Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford takes over