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NASA launched the ECHO, the first communications satellite to be seen with the naked eye. This was the start of their satellite communications project.
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President Kennedy ordered 100 'special forces' troops to South Vietnam. Only later to start loosing our American Soldiers in defense of our freedom in the Vietnam War.
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The current and 44th president Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was a Civil Rights Lawyer then the Illinois state senator and now the first African-American president of the United States.
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Marilyn Monroe, a famous actress, was found dead in her bedroom on August 5, 1962. The death was determined to be a suicide because a bottle of empty sleeping pills were found near her body.
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Johnny Depp was born June 6, 1963 little to be know girls would drool over him many years later. Johnny Depp is a famous actor staring in the Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Martin Luther King Jr made a speech in Washington DC on August 28, 1963 about equility. He wanted freedom for all people of all race. This event was led and followed by other attempts to stop segregation.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated Novemeber 22, 1963 by someone unknown. This tragic even took place in Dallas, Texas. Much like when the Twin Towers were hit, nobody will forget where they were when it happened. The shock and sadness of this even has long been remembered and always will be.
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Amy Parsons born January 18, 1964, little did she know she would be a teacher... And in love with Bruce Springsteen. Enough said.
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The Beatles came to the United States primarily to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show February 9 in NY. Their first concert in the United States took place two days later at the Coliseum in Washington DC.
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Several states including (VT, NH, CT, MA, NY) and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13.5 hours and invloving 30 million people. It all was caused by a maintenance personnel incorrectly setting a protective relay too low on a transmission line.
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Walt Disney, creator of many of the well know disney characters died of cardiac arrest after lung cancer surgery. He died December 15, 1966 in Los Angeles, California.
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The Greenbay Packers and the Kansas Chiefs opened the first ever Super Bowl on January 16 1967. The game ended with a 35 to 10 Packers win.
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The Abortion Act of 1967 was introduced by Liberal MP David Steel and legalized in Britain. The act came into force in April of 1968 in England, Wales, and Scotland. Abortion was only lawful in very specific circumstances. One being that two registered medical practitioners had to be in agreement that following through with the baby would be harmful to the child or mother. The act made some happy and others angry.
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Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. He was going to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting about low wages and poor working conditions. He was shot by James Earl Ray on a balcony.
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A date marked in history forever; July 20, 1969, Neil Alden Armstrong and Edwin Eugened 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. were the first humans to land on the moon. This fulfilled the american dream to put a man on the moon before the Russians. (Space Race)
