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A photo taken by a Carleton E. Watkins of Yosemite's Domes.
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Shows three men in a gulch mining for gold.
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Lower Falls and Sulphur Mountain, Yellowstone TM; Prang's American Chromolithograph.
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Group having breakfast in camp in West Branch, Penobscot, Maine. Kirkbride, Joseph J.
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Illustration from Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings , By Ernest Seton Thompson.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) wins the presidential election
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Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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John F. Kennedy (Democrat) wins the presidential election.
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Malcolm X is assassinated at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21.
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On May 15, Alabama Govenor George Wallace was shot four times by Arthur Bremer.
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Negro History Week becomes Black History Month.
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An attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan occured on March 30 - just 69 days into his presidency.
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The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday is established - January 21 (Dr. King's birthday).
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Rodney Glen King, a black motorest, was brutally beaten by the Los Angeles Police Department on March 3
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Bill Clinton (Democrat) wins the presidential election.
