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Forrest teaches the "king", Elvis Presley, his signature hip dancing move.
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Forrest watches Elvis perform hound dog and Elvis displays his new dance move.
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After his collegiate success in football, Forrest gets to meet President John F. Kennedy.
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Forrest witnesses the first African American students to be enrolled to the university of Alabama.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated at Dallas, Texas.
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Forrest decides to enter the military after college just because someone suggested it to him and ends up going to fight at Vietnam.
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Forrest runs back forth into the jungle in hopes to find his friend Bubba, rescuing wounded soldiers along the way.
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After being shot in the buttocks, Forrest no longer has to fight in the war and while recovering discovers ping pong came naturally to him.
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Forrest is rewarded with the medal of honor for his actions in the Vietnam war.
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While Armstrong touches the surface of the moon, Forrest is drawing attention with his ping pong skills.
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Forests incredible ping pong skills earned him a spot on the national team that went to compete in communist China.
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John Lennon releases perhaps his most memorable song of his career.
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Forrest sits alongside two of the most prominent figures in the entertainment/music industry, John Lennon and Dick Cavett.
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While staying in a hotel, Forrest discovers some strange activity in some rooms that actually turn out to be the Watergate scandal.
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Forrest buys himself a shrimping boat and along with lietunanant Dan start a shrimping company.
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Due to many altercations that made Nixon's presidency even more stressing and overwhelming, Nixon decided to resign his presidency.
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While out shrimping Forrest and lieutenant Dan find themselves in a storm that destroys every boat except for theirs. Which leads to their success in the shrimping business.
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Forrest starts running just because he felt like it, but is perceived by others as an act of revolt to pursue some type of change.
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The deadly virus begins to spread among American societies.
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Forrest becomes very wealthy after Lieutenant Dan invested money into Apple, which Forrest perceived as a mere fruit company.
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Forrest gets Jenny's letter that says for him to go meet up with her at her apartment.
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After shortly being married with Forrest, Jenny passes away from AIDS.
