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The Federal Highway Act is signed, beginning the process of the work on the interstate highway system
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The first electric watch was introduced in Lancaster, Pa.
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Explorer I, the first U.S. satallite sucessfully orbits the earth
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Matell introduced the Barbie doll in
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Hawaii and Alaska become the forty-ninth and fifteith state
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Elvis became popular with his music career staring in the sixties after he returned from the army
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The Peace Corps was created by JFK
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Martin Luther King delivers his I have a dream speech
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John F. Kennedy was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
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Lyndon Johnson becomes president of the United States after JFK's assasination
