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The United States leads its first air raid attack on the Japanese main islands during April in World War II
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Truman becomes US President following the death of President Roosevelt.
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Historians use the word “boom” to describe a lot of things about the 1950's the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.” This boom began in 1946, when a record number of babies–3.4 million–were born in the United States.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated as the United States president.
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Rock and Roll music popularity increases featuring Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry and The Platters.
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Just as black power became the new focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960's, other groups were growing similarly impatient with incremental reforms. Student activists grew more radical.
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President Richard Nixon orders an invasion of Cambodia, widening the war in Vietnam.
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The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuations of Americans and South Vietnamese.
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John Lennon shot and killed in New York
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Rioting UK. Rioting breaks out at housing estates in Brixton, London and Liverpool.
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Hubble Space Telescope launched during STS-31
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Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
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Almost 3,000 people are killed in four suicide attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The attack launches the global War on Terrorism.