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Doris Day
American actress, singer, and animal rights activist -
Red China
Wins the Chinese Civil War becoming The People’s Republic of China -
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Billy Joel's song timeline
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South Pacific
South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan -
Marilyn Monroe
Famous actress, died of drug overdose -
The Catcher in the Rye
is the story of Holden's life in the few days after being expelled from his Pennsylvania prep school. Published in 1951 by J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye has been banned more times than you want to count by zealous parents and educators -
Liberace
Popular tv shows and musical entertainer -
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller and wife are in a highly publicized divorce -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr -
Woodstock
In 1969 more than half a million people came together united in a message of peace, openness and cultural expression and demonstrated how a generation could be heard -
Sally Ride
First American woman in space
