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"Rock Around the Clock" is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music.
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and site of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention
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Space Monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18
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John F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon in the November 8 general election
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Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas
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Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected President in 1968
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Moonshot: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon.
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Russians in Afghanistan: Following their move into Afghanistan, Soviet forces fight a ten-year war, from 1979 to 1989
