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Rome held the Olympics for this year. Wilma Rudolph had won 3 Gold Medals in the Athletics events.
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70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised presidential debate.
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Yuri Gagarin (Russian Cosmonaut) is the first man to be in space.
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The Berlin Wall has built in the middle of the night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West.
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Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood home.
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Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I had a dream" speech.
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John F. Kennedy was assasinated.
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The Beatles become popular in America, being featured on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Malcolm X assassinated by Islamic Leaders.
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Star Trek airs for the first time.
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Harold Holt is missing and his body is still not found.
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Martin Luther King is shot dead.
