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He sets pro boxing record for most consecutive knockouts with 44.
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The Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings franchises were created.
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The first time the world series was ended by a HR. Bill Mazeroski hits a HR in the Bottom of the ninth inning to win the 7th game of the world series for the Pirates against the Yankees.
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The world figure skating championship canceled after Team US was killed in a plane crash.
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First telecast of an overseas sport.
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Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points vs the New York Knicks.
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The cuban missle crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
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President John F. Kennedy killed in a parade in
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President Lyndon B Johnson send troops to Vietnam.
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First super bowl; Greenbay Packers win.
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Mickey Mantle hits his 500th career homerun.
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Longest all-star game; 15 innings; National league beats American league 2-1.
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Open era of tennis begins.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon.
