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history.navy.milUnited Nations forces retreat south toward the 38th parallel when Chinese Communist forces open a counteroffensive in the Korean War. This action halted any thought of a quick resolution to the conflict. On December 8, 1950, shipments to Communist China are banned by the United States.
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Leaders of China and Tibet signed an agreement promising a high degree of autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule. Tibetans later said the agreement was signed under duress.
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stevehollier.wordpress.com Stalin offers a united Germany in exchange for superpower disengagement and German neutrality. The United States and its allies are not interested.
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Gregori Malenkov has called for peaceful coexistence between the superpowers and for peace in Korea. Zhou Enlai joins him, proposing that the prisoner of war issue be turned over to a neutral state.
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The Eisenhower administration creates the South East Asia Treaty Organization, a political-military alliance to "contain communism." Members: the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the U.S. and France.
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Universal studios is filming "The Conqueror" in Snow Canyon State Park in Utah, an area unknowlingly contaminated by the testing of eleven nuclear bombs in nearby Yucca Flats, Nevada in 1953. Of the 220 persons working on the film on location, 46 will be have died from cancer and 91 others will have contracted cancer by the 1980s. "Experts" calculate that only 30 persons should have gotten cancer from a group that size. Among the 46 who will die by the early 80s: the stars, John Wayne, Susan Hay
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In a six-hour speech to a closed session of the Communist Party's 20th Congress, Nikita Khrushchev denounces the "crimes" of Stalin against the Party and denounces the "cult of personality" that developed with Stalin's leadership.
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In Montgomery Alabama, six African-American churches and the home of two ministers are bombed.
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A moon probe rocket, Pioneer 1, is launched
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Alaska becomes the 49th U.S. state.
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The United States make a weather satellite.
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Senate John F. Kennedy accepts democratic for President.
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en.wikipedia.orgAtomic bomb tested in Nevada.
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starchild.gsfc.nasa.govSoviet sends first women in to space, Valentina Tereshkova.
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dipity.comRanger 7 launched to the moon.
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olstars.comCanada gets a new flag.
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defensetech.orgFrance launches first nuclear submarine.
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media.photobucket.comThe U.S. launches an offensive in South Vietnam against Hill 937 (Hamburger Hill). Seventy U.S. soldiers have died and 372 have been wounded.
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en.wikipedia.orgPresident Nixon begins his "Vietnamization" plan. He tells President Thieu of South Vietnam that 25,000 U.S. troops will leave Vietnam by August.
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en.wikipedia.orgIn California, Ronald Reagan wins a second term as governor. His Democratic Party opponent was Jesse Unruh, whom he described as a tax-and-spend liberal.
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whitehouse.govA bomb explodes in the men's room at the White House. The Weather Underground claims responsibility. Capitalism continues undeterred.
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President Nixon and a large entourage visit the People's Republic of China. The U.S. and China pledge to work toward full normalization of diplomatic relations.
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en.wikipedia.org U.S. President, Lyndon B. Johnson, dies.
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In the U.S. the rate of price increases for the year will be 11.3 percent, in Britain it will be 17.2 percent. People are distressed. Gasoline in the United States has risen to 55 cents per gallon. The average annual income in the U.S. is $13,900. The average new house costs $34,900.
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In an apartment in San Francisco with other Symbionese Liberation Army members, Patty Hearst is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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wikicfgs1y2.wikispaces.com Steve Jobs and Steve Woznik form Apple Computer Company. Big innovations are coming from small startup companies rather than IBM, Xerox and others. Big companies have their own and in-the-box thinking.
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en.wikipedia.org U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino, known in the United States as "Tokyo Rose".
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President Carter postpones production of the neutron bomb -- which kills people with radiation but leaves buildings relatively intact.
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en.wikipedia.orgA rabbit chased by hounds swims toward President Carter's boat, while he is fishing. Carter fends off the rabbit with a paddle. The press describes Carter as having been attacked by a killer swamp rabbit.
