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•First Televised Presidential Debates
•Lasers Invented
•Lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NC -
•Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
•The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
•Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth -
Berlin wall was built to divide east and west germany
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•Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
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•Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded
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Cubans test the americans with the missile crisis . JFK does not back down,
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•First James Bond Movie
•First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
•First Wal-Mart Opens -
•First Woman in Space
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•Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
•Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
•Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued -
•"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
•JFK Assassinated
•March on Washington
•Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
•Medgar Evers Is Murdered -
The beatles become popular in the United states
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•Malcolm X Assassinated
•Miniskirt First Appears
•Nicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in Romania
•New York City Great Blackout -
•Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
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•Six-Day War in the Middle East
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•Manson Family Murders
•Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
•Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
•Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
•Sesame Street First Airs
•Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO
