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the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals
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the invasion of England, is cancelled
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President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse
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a series of anti-aircraft engagements over the city in response to rumored but false Japanese attack.
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Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States
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1st US President to visit a foreign country during wartime
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D-Day postponed until June
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The Supreme Court of the U.S. orders that all public schools be integrated
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, prompting a boycott that would lead to declaration of segregation
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Gordon Gould, an American physicist, invents the laser
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for his second term in office.
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U.S. Congress approves the first civil rights bill since reconstruction with additional protection of voting rights
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Alaska is admitted to the U.S. as the 49th state
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Senator John F. Kennedy wins presidential race to succeed two term president Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The construction of the Berlin wall begins
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The Voting Rirghts Act of 1965 is signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice
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Presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy is shot
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Senate approves the 26th Constitutional Amendment that would lower the age of voting from 21 to 18
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President Richard Nixon avoided impeachment process by resigning the office of presidency
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Ronald Reagan elected President of the United States
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The first space shuttle is launched from Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center
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The space shuttle Challenger explodes during takeoff at Cape Canaveral, killing all 7 astronauts on board.
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The stock market crashed
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Vice President, George H.W. Bush, elected President
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The U.S. invasion of Iraq in order to liberate Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm
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Bill Clinton elected President of the United States
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George W. Bush, son of former President George H.W. Bush, becomes President of the United States
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The war on terror begins with a joint U.S. and U.K. attack on Taiban and Al-Qaeda positions in Afghanistan