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for more info Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them.
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for more infoH-Bomb is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952
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for more info Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion welterweight boxer
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for more info Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.
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for more infoDisneyland opens on July 17 as Walt Disney's first theme park.
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for more infoMickey Mantle is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.
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for more infoAdolf Eichmann, a "most wanted" Nazi war criminal, is traced to Argentina and captured by Mossad agents. He is covertly taken to Israel where he is put on trial for crimes against humanity in Germany during World War II, convicted, and hanged.
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for more infoJFK blown away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas.
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for more infoA collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is first detected and recognized in the 1980s, and was on its way to becoming a pandemic.
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for more infoCrack cocaine use surged in the mid-to-late 1980s