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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s
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The first general election presidential debate was 1960 United States presidential debates, held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS's WBBM-TV.
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Popular T.V show
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This was when we elected our 35th president
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Russia was the first country to accomplish such a task
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The day it was built
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Roger Maris on this day hit his 61st home run
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The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society
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The date that Marilyn Monroe died
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He became the first African American to attend Ole Miss as a student
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The day the missile crisis started with Cuba
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The day this movie was released
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Martin Luther King presented the world with his famous I have a dream speech
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The day our 35th president was killed
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The date when the famous group stepped foot in our country
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The Beatles made their first live U.S. television appearance.
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The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was a world's fair that held over 140 pavilions and 110 restaurants, representing 80 nations, 24 US states, and over 45 corporations with the goal and result of building exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City.
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Johnson became our president on this day
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On this day Malcolm X was murdered
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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles
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Star Trek aired on NBC
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The date San Francisco “Summer of Love” began
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The first ever NFL SUperbowl
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Popular boxer Muhammed Ali was drafted to the army but would not go
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The day the Beatles released their album
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The date Thurgood Marshall was nominated to the Supreme Court
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The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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This was the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
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The day Robert Kennedy was killed
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Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1968, counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order
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On this day the country made this drug illegal
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This is when president Nixon was elected as president
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The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid
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First time a man has been on the moon
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First day of woodstock
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Rolling Stones held their concert which then took a turn for the worst