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Churchill delivers speech
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russian cominform
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Certainly for the inhabitants of Levittown, more disturbing complaints came from their Long Island neighbors. Wealthy Gold Coast residents were concerned with property values and a decline in prestige with the arrival of the urban working class in their “boxy little” houses. An editorial in a local news-paper, the Island Trees Tribune, noted this as early as Decemb
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Elvis’ first appearance on the Louisiana Hayride, a popular country radio show out of Shreveport LA.
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News of his vaccines' success was made public.
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A Russian missile launched Sputnik into space and it then became the first man made object in space as well as the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik's launch was an unpleasant surprise to Americans. The next year the U.S. launched Explorer I, which was designed by the U.S. Army.
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Kerouac explained what he meant by "beat" at a Brandeis Forum, "Is There A Beat Generation?", on November 8, 1958, at New York's Hunter College Playhouse.
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Alan Shepard became the first american in space, but not orbit. Later that may president JFK made a bold claim that the US would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
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The Feminine Mystique was released
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Nixon's Speech
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