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Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina
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U.S. breaks relations with Cuba.
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Russia announces sending the first man into space!
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East Germany created Berlin Wall to stop the Refugees from entering.
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USSR fires hydrogen bomb, biggest explosion in history.
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Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa, Uganda,Tobago and Trinidad become independent.
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China splits from the Soviet Union over Communism Ideology
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John H. Glenn, Jr., is first American to orbit Earth
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USSR to build missile bases in Cuba
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Pope John XXIII dies
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Civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King delivers “I have a dream” speech.
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President Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Texas.
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Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
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Malcolm X shot to death at Harlem.
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Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Robert F. Kennedy is shot and killed.
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Nixon gets inaugurated. Becomes 37th president
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