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Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y44Y5-EL99Q The Korean War begins its three year conflict when troops of North Korea.
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G Ma got her drivers liscense when she was sixteen
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The inauguration of trans-continental television occurs with the broadcast of President Truman's speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.
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They had to sleep on rugs.
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The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education.
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disneyland, the brainchild of Walt Disney, whose father had worked at previous world's fairs and inspired his son to build the iconic Magic Castle and other exhibits, opens in Anaheim, California, with the backing of the new televisionnetwork, ABC.
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Four black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service.
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G Ma went to key punch school during highschool, here in Milwaukee
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Presidential candidate, the Democratic Senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy, is shot at a campaign victory celebration in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian, after primary victories, and dies one day later.
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The Apollo program completes its mission. Neil Armstrong, United States astronaut, becomes the first man to set foot on the moon four days after launch from Cape Canaveral. His Apollo 11 colleague, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. accompanies him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC-cyoqKjpQ
