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Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised presidential debate
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On board Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history becoming both the first person in the world to enter space and the first person to orbit the Earth.
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The closest the world has come to nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States.
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John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.
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President Lyndon B Johnson signed the bill creating equal rights in voting, education, public accommodations, union membership and federally assisted programs regardless of race, color, religion or national origin.
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President Johnson had ordered a deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase in Da Nang.This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam.
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The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in October 15, 1966, in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. They began spreading eastward through the Black urban ghetto colonies across country.
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Demonstrators including radicals, liberals, black nationalists, hippies, professors, women's groups, and war veterans march on the Pentagon.
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General Vo Nguyen Giap, the man in charge of North Vietnam's army, believed it was time for the North Vietnamese to make a major surprise attack on South Vietnam. They attacked every major city in South Vietnam and focused on command and control centers.
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President Nixon orders the first troop withdraws from Vietnam. This was only the start of a massive troop withdraw. This event proved that the end of the war was nearing in Vietnam.
The 814 soldiers were the first of 25,000 troops that were withdrawn in the first stage of the U.S. disengagement from the war.
