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Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Picture: http://www.asla-socal.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/speech.png
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Eisenhower signs the Submerged Lands Act, which transfered the ownership of the first three miles of submerged land to the US.
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Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. During the following week, the Montgomery African American community, led by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., organizes a boycott of the city's buses that lasts for more than a year.
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Eisenhower tries to persuade Richard Nixon to take a cabinet post and not stand for re-election in 1956 as vice president.
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Eisenhower releases $1 billion worth of Uranium-235 for peaceful atomic purposes.
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May 31, 1956 Eisenhower approves U-2 spy flights over the Soviet Union.
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Eisenhower signs a bill making Alaska the forty-ninth state.
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