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Women start using the birth control pill.
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John F. Kennedy wins presidential election.
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The Soviet Union fires a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, the biggest explosion in history.
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The convention yields a '60s student manifesto, the Port Huron Statement: Agenda for a Generation.
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Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, 36, is found dead in her bedroom.
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JFK is shot and killed in Dallas, Texas.
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Breaking with the President, Martin Luther King announces his opposition to the war.
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Forty million TV viewers watch the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Norman Mailer joins march to Pentagon; He recounts events in Armies of the Night for which he earns a Pulitzer.
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Richard Nixon Wins Presidency.