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  The 19th Amendment is ratified, allowing women the right to vote.
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  The first Mickey Mouse comic strip was published in the New York Mirror.
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  Americas Town metting of the air was brodcasted and was one of the most important public service projects that NBC has ever done and sucedded with.
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  The first modern credit card was introduced which would change the finacial lives of many Americans.
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  John F. Kennedy is elected as the presidnet of the United States.
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  Five members of the Chicago 7 are convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago.
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  Media tycoon Ted Turner announced the creation of CNN.
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  Germany was reunited as a whole after 45 years.
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  Hillary Clinton won a seat for the United States Senate from New York. It was the first time a former first lady won a public office job.
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  Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7 earthquake 222,000 deaths were accounted for