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  He authorized the use of atomic bombs.
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  was the first elected to the United States Senate.
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  first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.
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  died on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union.
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  he spends his last full year as President of Argentina before a September 1955 coup.
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  died on April 18 at the age of 76.
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  releasesd her last film, High Society, and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
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  A Russian author, publishes a novel called, Doctor Zhivago.
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  Was elected first president of the French Fifth Republic