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The two largest American labor unions, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, merge to form the AFL-CIO
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The first U.S. space satellite
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Alaska became the 49th state
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John F. Kennedy became the president
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Yuri Gagarin became the first men get into space
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Lt. Colonel John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut
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The Cuban Missile Crises begins
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Lyndon B. Johnson became the president after Kennedy was assassinated
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Martin Luther King speaks at a civil rights rally on the courthouse steps of the Alabama State Capitol
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Richard Nixon became the president
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Neil Armstrong became the first man land on the moon
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Richard M. Nixon went to Beijing, began the process for normalization of relations with China.
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Gerald Ford became the president
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The Watergate cover-up trials of Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman are completed; all are found guilty of the charges
