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Elvis Presley first airs on television on January 28,1956. Elvis creates controversy on his dancing.
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Nine black students became enrolled in a formerly all white public school in Arkansas. The situation was brought to the Supreme Court ruling segregation in all public schools is unconstitutional.
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On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was blamed for the assassination and was later shot on the way to a prison.
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LBJ escalation of foreign affairs caused troops to enter Vietnam.
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On October 6, 1966 the Black Panther party was formed to fight for desegregation and Black Rights.
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On June 6, 1968 Bobby Kennedy was assassinated at Los Angeles, California.
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The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
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Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969.
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On January 25, 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder for directing the deaths of the LaBianca victims.
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One of the first public hints of improved U.S.-China relations came on April 6, 1971, when the American Ping-Pong team, in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, received a surprise invitation from their Chinese colleagues for an all-expense paid visit to the People's Republic.
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The first pair of Nike shoes released.
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Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the DNC headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
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The scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support, and on August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office.
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Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season.
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The Gerald Ford assassination attempt in Sacramento was a September 5, 1975, effort by Charles Manson Family cult member Lynette Fromme to kill U.S. President Gerald Ford in California.
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.
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Murder of John Lennon. On December 8, 1980, Chapman left his room at the Sheraton Hotel, leaving personal items behind which the police would later find, and bought a copy of The Catcher in the Rye in which he wrote "This is my statement", signing it "Holden Caulfield".
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The attempted assassination of United States President Ronald Reagan occurred on March 30, 1981.
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The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first manned space flight.
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During the 1980s a Mystery Virus, later named HIV, was founded causing a scare among the population.
