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First direct US military involvement in Vietnam
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Kennedy Assasination
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Boston Strangler, Albert Desalvo, is captured
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Lyndon B. Johnson announces his program to create Medicare
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Vietnam Protests
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The Fisrt Super Bowl
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Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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First man on the moon
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Apollo 13 mission abandoned
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Federal Express started by Fred Smith
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Terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics
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Roe vs. Wade makes abortion a US constituional right
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Nixon becomes the first president to ever resign
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The Vietnam war ends
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The US Bicentennial is celebrated
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Jimmy Carter is elected president
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Cult leader Jim Jones, instructs 400 people to commit suicide
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Three mile island nuclear accident
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Ronald Reagan elected president
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Sandra Day O'Connor is nominated to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court
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Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide killed 7
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The first mobile phones are introduced by the Motorolla Company
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Aids virus is identified by a french immunologist
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FDA approves blood testing for Aids
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Space shuttle Challenger exploded
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Disposable contact lenses become available to the public
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Pan Am plane exploded from bomb
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The Berlin Wall is dismantled
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US sent troops to Kuwait due to the Iraq invation
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Internet is made available to the public
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Bill Clinton is elected president
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Bombing of the World Trade Center by islamic fudamentalists
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MLB goes on strike and their season is canceled
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Oklahoma City federal building is bombed
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Ebay was started
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Princess Diana died in a car accident
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President Bill Clinton was impeached
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World prepares technology for the new millenium in fear of computers shutting down
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Disputed election between Bush and Gore
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Terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon
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Euro became the official currency for 12 European Union members
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Saddam Hussein is captured
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President Bush is relected for his second term
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Hurricane Katrina
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12 coal miners die in Sago mine disaster
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Nancy Pelosi is elected the first female speaker for the US congress
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President Bush signs $700 billion bailout/Rescue Package Bill
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Barrack Obama is elected president
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Financial crisis and high unemployment
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Osama Bin Laden killed