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The Korean War started because North Koreas Communist army crossed the 38th parallel, invaded non-communist South Korea.
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Cheryle Matusheski was born
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The UNIVAC is introduced as the first commercial computer. It's sold by Remington Rand, a typewriter maker.
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Israel and Germany agree on restitution for damages done to Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II.
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The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb with much more power than the atomic bomb.
