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Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera
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Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show "Louisiana Hayride"
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President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war
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The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack
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Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"
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Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting
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Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
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US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
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American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24
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Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
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RCA Records make its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley's contract
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
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"Heartbreak Hotel" single released by Elvis Presley, his first million-selling single
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US President Eisenhower announces he will seek a 2nd term
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650,000 US steel workers go on strike
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Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
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IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
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The Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV
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Operation Grapple: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb near Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean
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Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to prevent 9 black students from entering a Little Rock's Central High School
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Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761
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US President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas
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The motorcade carrying US Vice President Richard Nixon is attacked in Caracas, Venezuela; several of Nixon's staff are injured
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US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate
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Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency
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US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant
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Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
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JFK announces US goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
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Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in
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John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon who was the incumbent Vice President
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JFK begins underground nuclear testing
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200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil and economic rights in Washington, D.C.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
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Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
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Findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
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Martin Luther King Jr. announced as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
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State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
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"A Charlie Brown Christmas" first Peanuts animated special premieres on CBS in the US
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
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Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
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Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign
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US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
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Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night
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US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
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Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy
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Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet
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Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
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US President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements from 1st Jan 1971
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Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
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Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House - the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives
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Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
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Cigarette advertisements banned on TV
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Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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US President Richard Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
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1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
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Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states
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US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
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Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp
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US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
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US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies
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Chinese farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues buried to guard the tomb of China's 1st emperor, Qin Shi Huang
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Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President
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Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
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US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
