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Period: to
1960's
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US and Japan sign joint defense treaty
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1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
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First nuclear powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
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Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
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31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
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Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
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United States Navy SEALs established.
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Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only prisoners to successfully escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
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Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
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1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"
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JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
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John F. Kennedy was assassignated by Lee Harvey Oswald
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GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
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USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
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Vietnam War: for his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
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US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
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Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
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1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
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1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
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USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
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Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
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Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10
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Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
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USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking
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Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
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Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
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Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
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Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
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Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
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Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
