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refuses to give up her seat.
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is inaugurated for his second term in office.
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The first attempt by the United States to launch a satellite into space fails when it explodes on the launchpad.
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the first U.S. space satellite, is launched by the Army at Cape Canaveral. It would discover the Van Allen radiation belt.
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is admitted to the United States as the 49th state
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is admitted to the United States 50th State.
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The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom culminates with Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Over 200,000 people participated in the march for equal rights.
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President John F. Kennedy is mortally wounded by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
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is signed into law by President Lyndon B.
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The first public burning of a draft card occurs in protest to the Vietnam War. It is coordinated by the anti-war group of students, National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
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Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War spread into Cambodia.
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opens in Orlando, Florida, expanding the Disney empire to the east coast of the United States.
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when four men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. on the same day that Okinawa is returned from U.S. control back to Japan.
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the office of the presidency, avoiding the impeachment process and admitting his role in the Watergate affair.