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In 1960 the average income per year was $5,315.00
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In 1960 a gallon of gas was 25 cents
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The United States decides to send 3,500 U.S. troops to Vietnam.
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Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space. One month later, Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis has the world on the edge of another World War as the United States and USSR come close to launching nuclear attacks.
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Sam Walton opens the first Wal-Mart store in Arkansas.
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United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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The United States begins to use Zip Codes.
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The BBC broadcasts the very first episode of the iconic television show "Doctor Who."
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United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
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NASA's Mariner 4 space probe successfully approaches Mars and becomes the first spacecraft to take images of a planet from deep space.
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The Ford Motor Company begins to produce and sell the Ford Mustang.
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The first episode of the popular television show "Star Trek" airs
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The Soviet Union's Luna 9 unmanned spacecraft lands on the Moon.
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The Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs play against each other in the first Super Bowl, with the Packers winning 35 to 10.
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Rolling Stone publishes its first magazine issue.
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The first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7, is launched by NASA.
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Richard Nixon wins the United States presidential election.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to arrive on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission.
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ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, relays its first communications between UCLA and Stanford.
