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Forrest joins the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a long and unsecccesful war and created much protest in the United States
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Forrest meets Hippies after he returns from the war. Hippies were people who protested the war and founded on psychedelic rock and brought about the the sexual revolution.
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Forrest shows Elvis a funny dance while Elvis is staying at Forrest's home. Elvis later uses that dance in his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.
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Forrest witnesses George Wallace's stance against integration by standing in front of the schoolhouse doors to not allow the black students in.
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Forrest meets JFK in 1963 and he later talks about how JFK was assassinated.
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Forrest meets the Black Panthers in 1969. The Black Panthers were a civil rights group that used violence to gain rights for blacks and believed in black supremacy,
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Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon.
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Forrest hears on T.V that cult leader Charles Manson has been found and arrested.
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Forrest is condecorated by Nixon for playing ping pong for the army. This condecoration grants him a stay at the Watergate complex, thus leading to Forrest watching the burglars breaking into it and calling security , thus leading to the Watergate Scandal, which resulted in Nixon resigning.
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Hurricane Carmen hits the southern USA, including Bayou La Batre.
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In 1976, Dan tells Forrest he invested their money on a "fruit company". This fruit company was Apple, which was created by that time and turned into a huge profit very quickly.
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Forrest meets John Lennon the December of 1971 and he later talks about how he was assassinated.
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While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan was shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. Hinckley'
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The first American space shuttle is launched.
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In 1981, when Forrest meets Jenny again, she says she has a virus that doctors don't know. This virus was the HIV virus.