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The polio vaccine is shown to be effective and many people will get it causing polio to slowly fade.
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World leaders gathered at a conference in Geneva to ease tensions from the cold war.
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Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
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The first US satellite to be launched into space, Explorer 1, is launched on 1/31/1958.
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Hawaii became the final and 50th state of America.
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The civil rights act of 1964 was underway which would ban public discrimination or segregation.
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The us sends troops into vietnam.
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Ford is elected as the 38th President of the United States.