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Eleven masked bandits steal 2.8 million dollars from an armored car
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Census calculates United States population at 150,697,361
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35 military advisors are sent to South Vietnam to give aid to anti-communist government
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The United States, Australia, and New Zealand sign a mutual security pact.
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President Truman authorizes the seizure of United States steel mills in order to avert a strike.
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President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower travels to Korea to try and end the conflict.
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The first large scale vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court
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The United States government agrees to train South Vietnamese troops.
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Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man
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The first transatlantic telephone cable began operation.
