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After refusing to leave her seat so that a white person may have it, Rosa Parks is arrested
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Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus calls the National Guard to keep nine black students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School
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The U.S. launches its first successful satellite into space, named Explorer 1
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The U.S. invades Cuba with the intention to over throw Fidel Castro, but fails after two days
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As a part of Project Mercury, John Glenn is launched into space and becomes the first American to orbit Earth
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After the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, the U.S. blockades the country, and a stalemate ensues between the worlds two biggest nuclear superpowers. After nearly erupting into nuclear war, the crisis ends with an agreement that would keep nuclear missiles out from Cuba and Turkey
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3,500 U.S. Marines are deployed as the first American troops in Vietnam
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Earths moon, winning the Space Race
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With impeachment imminent due to the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon resigns as U.S. President