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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protest
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Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I have a dream." speech
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Four young girls attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at a popular location for civil rights meetings
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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President Lyndon B. Johnson committed the first U.S. combat ground troops to Vietnam to aid the South Vietnamese Government in its war against Soviet-assisted North Vietnamese
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This is the first major battle of the Vietnam War. The United States scores a resounding victory
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote.
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The 66th North Vietnamese Regiment move east toward Plei Mei encountering and ambushing an American battalion
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The United States and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
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Martin Luther King is shot ,on the balcony, as he stands outside of his hotel room
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Soviet, Polish, East German, Bulgarian, and Hungarian troops invaded Czechoslovakia
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The United States and the Soviet Union held preliminary Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
