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Harry Truman
Harry Truman is inaugurated as U.S. president after being elected in 1948 to his own term;
previously he was sworn in following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He authorized the
use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan during World War II, on August 6 and
August 9, 1945, respectively.
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Joe Dimagio
Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s,
winning four of them.
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Queen Elizabeth the second
England's got a new queen: Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom
and the Commonwealth Realms upon the death of George VI of the United Kingdom and is
crowned the next year.
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Monkeys in Space
Space Monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter
AM-18.
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Malcom X
Malcolm X makes his infamous statement "The chickens have come home to roost" about the
Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censor him.
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Birth Control
Birth control: In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill",
first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965
challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released
a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected in the 1968 presidential election of the United States
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Appolo 11
Moonshot: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon
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Wheel Of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune: A hit television game show which has been TV's highest-rated
syndicated program since 1983
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