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Marilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve.
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A controversial novel by J. D. Salinger, is published.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.
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Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union.
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Winthrop Rockefeller and his wife Barbara are involved in a highly publicized divorce, culminating in 1954 with a record-breaking $5.5 million settlement
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Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture.
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The Mafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin.
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Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression.
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Former Vice President Nixon is elected President in 1968.
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Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement.
