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Started the Klu Klux Klan
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The war in Vietnam started six years before the United States got involved
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African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama. Alabama's new governor, flanked by state troopers, blocked the door of the enrollment office.
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Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime.
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Senator Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary
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The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election
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Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon
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The scandal break-in at the Democratic National Committee 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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Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season
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At the age of 42, the cause of his death was covered up by his family. Although, it is suspected that it was from an overdose of prescription drugs that caused his heart to stop.
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The Beatles' musician John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his New York City apartment when Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were returning from the recording studio to their home at The Dakota when 25-year-old crazed fan Mark David Chapman shot him.
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69 days into his presidency, while leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., Reagan and three others were shot and wounded
