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John F. Kennedy got elected as President of the United States.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was lauched in to space, being the first man ever to go up in to space.
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This speech told everyone that he wanted to put an american on the Moon by the end of the decade. This is probably what gave a lot of people hope in the Apollo project.
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Richard Nixon becomes president of the United States.
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Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins get launched into space and begin the mission to land on the Moon.
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On this day, Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon.
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This is when the Apollo 11 crew made it safely back on Earths surface. They landed around Hawaii.
