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Joanne Woodward earns first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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American "U2" spy plane shot down over the USSR.
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Murderer/Writer Caryl Chessman is executed.
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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin is the first man to travel into space, as he circles the earth in 90 minutes in the Vostok I 187 miles above the earth.
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Ernest Hemmingway commits suicide with shotgun
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President Kennedy creates the Peace Corps to improve education, agriculture, and living standards in Latin America, Asia, and Africa
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In February Marine Corps General John Glenn circles the earth 3 times in the Friendship 7.
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The World's Fair is held in Seattle
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Marilyn Monroe dies of barbituate overdose at the age of 36.
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Sniper kills Negro leder Medgar Evers
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Dr. Martin Luther King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. In August, more than 200,000 Americans will march in Washington in support of civil rights.
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Beatles first hit "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" is released
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Three civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi
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U.S. Ranger 7 relays the first close-range photographs of the Moon
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Priz
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Winston Churhill dies
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Black nationalist leader Malcolm X is shot to death in New York
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The largest blackout in the nation's history from Toronto plant puts the lights out in 80,000 square miles to include New York. Nine months later many post baby boomers were born as a result of the black out.
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Russia makes first soft moon landing
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James Meredith is shot on civil rights march
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The Beatles perform their final live concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco
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Israel smashes the Arabs in 6 day war
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Jann Wenner borrows $7,500 to begin publication of Rolling Stone Magazine
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U.S. population is now at 200 million
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The U.S. Spy ship Pueblo is seized by North Korea
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James Earl Ray arrested for assassination of Martin Luther King
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The Apollo Eight completes a flight around the moon at year's end
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First commerical 747 goes into service
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Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
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Apollo 11 was an American spaceflight in which the astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first ever to land on the Moon
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Woodstock begins!