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United States Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; United States enters World War II
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Martin Luther King Jr leads civil rights bus boycott
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The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Apollo 11 lands on moon
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United States Hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentogan in Washington, D.C., and the field in rural Pennsylvania Thousands of lvers are lost