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The Sharpville Massacre happened in South Africa when Police officers shot and killed 69 protesters
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The birth control pill was aproved by th FDA.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is the most well known horror movie ever. It came out in 1960 and is incredibly famous.
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The presidential debates were telivised for the very first time.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba, undertaken by the CIA-sponsered paramilitary group Brigade 2506
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier that completly cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and East Berlin.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day Confrontation between the U.S. and The Soviet Union, over Soviet ballistics missiles deployed in Cuba.
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The Alcatraz escape was a prison escape attempt by American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris to leave Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island using an inflatable raft.
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Thich Quang Duc, a Mahayan Monk, burned himself in a busy intersection, to protest the persicution of Budhists by the South Veitnemese.
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