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U.S. Supreme Court orders all schools integrate.
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Disneyland opens for first time in California.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat on bus for white male. This led to boycott of buses until segregation law was deemed unconstitutional.
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Federal-Aid Highway Act is instituted.
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President Eisenhower defeats Stevenson again to become President.
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Arkansas Governor calls in the National Guard to prevent nine black students from attending an all white high school in Little Rock.
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U.S. first space satellite, Explorer I, is launched in Cape Canaveral.
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The Daytona 500 conducts its first race.
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Four black students state a sit in at a lunch counter over denial of service.
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John F. Kennedy defeats Dwight Eisenhower to become the U.S. President.
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The American government attempts to overthrow Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.
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The Berlin Wall begins construction.
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John Glenn is the first American astronaut in space. He commanded the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
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The start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial.
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JFK is shot and killed during a motorcade by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for the presidency.
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President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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The government medical program for those over 65, Medicare, is started.
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The first NFL Super Bowl is conducted with the Green Bay Packers defeating the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis.
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Richard Nixon defeats Humphrey and Wallace to become the U.S. President.
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Neil Armstrong becomes first man to set foot on the moon.
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The United States Postal Service was made autonomous.
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The U.S. Senate approves Constitutional Amendment 26, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.
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President Nixon certifies the 26th Amendment.
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Walt Disney World opens for first time in Orlando, Florida.
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President Nixon becomes first U.S. President to visit Moscow.
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Four men arrested for breaking into DNC in what is known as Watergate.
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President Nixon defeats George McGovern to become President of the United States.
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U.S. Supreme Court rules in Roe v. Wade that women can have an abortion in the first six moths of the pregnancy.
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The Paris Peace Accords are signed in Paris.
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President Nixon resigns from the presidency becoming the first president to do so. Vice President Gerald Ford is inaugurated as president.
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The show, Wheel of Fortune, begins.
