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Period: to
The 1960s
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Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth
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Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
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Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
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Alfred Hitchcock's Psyco Released
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First Televised Presidential Debates
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Peace Corps Founded
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Soviets Launch First Man in Space
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JFK Gives "Man on the Moon" Speech
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The Antarctic Treaty Goes Into Force
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Berlin Wall Built
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Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded
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Famous Escape From Alcatraz
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First Wal-Mart Opens
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Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
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First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
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James Meredith Admitted Into the Segregated University of Mississippi
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Johnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight Show
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First Woman in Space
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Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
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JFK Assassinated
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First Dr. Who Episode Airs
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Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
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Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
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Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
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Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
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U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
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Malcolm X Assassinated
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The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
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Los Angeles Riots
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Miniskirt First Appears
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New York City Great Blackout
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National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
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Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
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Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
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Black Panther Party Established
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First Kwanzaa Celebrated
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First Super Bowl
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Stalin's Daughter Defects
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Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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Che Guevara Killed
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First Heart Transplant
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Australian Prime Minister Disappears
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My Lai Massacre
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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
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Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery
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Zodiac Killer Strikes
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Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
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Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
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Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
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Sesame Street First Airs