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McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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The North Korean military began the Communist lead invasion of South Korea.
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President Truman ordered U.S. air and naval support to aid South Korea against the Northern lead invasion; prompting the beginning of the U.S. involvement in the Korean War.
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The McCarran Internal Security Act was enacted, with the House and Senate overriding President Truman's veto of the bill.
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Brown v. Board of Education, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation.
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In Feburary of 1957, a unidentified boy was found dead in a box.
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On November 16, 1957, Ed Gein was arrested for killing two women and exuming bodies from the grave to make household items. EX: Lamp shades, bowls, etc. He even mad masks. :)
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Hawaii was admitted to the Union, becoming the 50th state
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The Civil Rights Act of 1960, establishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls and penalties for those attempting to obstruct the right to vote, was signed into law.
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On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I Have A Dream Speech". :)
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church.[
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On this day President, John f. kennedy, was assassinated. He was assassinated at 12.30 p.m. in Dealey Plaza, Dallas Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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After 28 year old, Kitty Genovese was murdered, a newspaper article reported the circumstances of Genovese's murder and the lack of reaction from numerous neighbors which is knnwn as the Genovese syndrome or bystander effect.
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n October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing.
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On February 21, 1965, one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City.
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Through the 1960s-1970s, 5 people were found dead by one man. Expect they have not found this men yet til this day. He would write letters to the Vallejo Times Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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On January 25, 1971, Manson was convicted of first-degree murder for directing the deaths of the Tate/LaBianca victims. He was sentenced to death, but this was automatically commuted to life in prison after Californian's Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences prior to 1972.
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Ping-pong diplomacy refers to the exchange of table tennis players between the United States and People's Republic of China in the early 1970s
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The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
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The Supreme Court ruled that state laws banning abortion before 24 weeks as unconstitutional
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The Paris Peace Accords was signed, ending the United States' direct involvement in the Vietnam War.
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This is the day that 6 foot and nine inches, Edmund Kemper, was arrested. He called the police a while after killing his own mother and her best friend. But they did not take hime seriously and told him to call back at a later time. He did, and later on they fount out that he had killed several other people as well.
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President Nixon fired three top legal advisers over the disposition of secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecutor in regard to the Watergate scandal
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Bill Gates founded Microsoft Corporation.
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Saigon, the capitol of South Vietnam, was captured by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong, causing the South to surrender and officially ending the Vietnam War
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Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc.
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New York City blackout of 1977: A twenty-five hour blackout, resulting in looting and other disorder, took place.
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On February 15, 1978, Ted Bundy was arrested for killing 30-36+ young women and girls.
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The mass-suicide of 909 American citizens who were members of the religious cult the Peoples Temple, led by Jim Jones, occurred in Guyana. With the addition murders of nine others, including Congressman Leo Ryan, the 918 deaths were the largest loss of American life in a single incident and in a non-natural disaster at the time.
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Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to public office, and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, were assassinated by Dan White in San Francisco.
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On December 21, 1978, John Wayne Gacy was arrested for killing 30-34 young men.
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The U.S. embassy in Tehran was raided by student activists of the Iranian Revolution after overthrown CIA instated Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was allowed into the U.S.; beginning the 444-day capture of the embassy and the holding of fifty-two American embassy personnel.
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Adam John Walsh was an American boy who was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981, and later found murdered and decapitated. His death earned national publicity.(Ottis Toole Victim)
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Anti-nuclear protests were held at Central Park in New York City, with nearly one million peaceful demonstrators protesting the arms race.
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n 1983, scientists discovered the virus that causes AIDS. The virus was at first named HTLV-III/LAV (human T-cell lymphotropic virus-type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus) by an international scientific committee. This name was later changed to HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
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1984 Summer Olympics boycott: The Soviet Union, later joined by most of the Eastern Bloc, announced the boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles.
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On August 31, 1985, Richard Ramirez was arrested for killing and assulting men and women.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law.
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On this day the, Milwaukee Cannibal, was arrested for killing 17 young men. Before his arrest a policeman had notice some photos taken by Dahmer, many of which were of human bodies in various stages of dismemberment. A few moments later, he had opened a refrigerator and was revealed a feshly severed head.
