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Rosa parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. This kicks off the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Elvis enters the music charts after appearing on the Ed Sullivan show.
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Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the National Guard of the United States to prevent the "Little Rock Nine" African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Association is established on Kennedy's behalf.
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Alaska is admitted as the 49th state.
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JFK beats Nixon and becomes President of the United States.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
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JFK bans trade with Cuba except for food and drug items.
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Jfk was shot in the neck and head in Dallas texas and was confirmed dead in Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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Muhammad Ali beats Sonny Liston in an upset.
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Some 200 Alabama State Troopers clash with 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. No one was killed in the clash.
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The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
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U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
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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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USA beats russia and effectively lands on the moon ending the space race,
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Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
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The US government ban on TV Cigarette ads went into effect.
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Dwayne "the rock" johnson was born.
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CAT scan imaging is introduced into the medical world.
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation.
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1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War, sometimes called the Second Indochina War or the American War.