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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
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The first televised debate was between Senator John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon
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FDA approves the first birth control pill
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Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first American in space, he flies above Earth for 14.8 minutes.
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U.S. starts underground nuclear testing.
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Marilyn Monroe was founf dead, doctors think it was from an overdose.
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The soviet union gives cuba missiles but U.S stops them from going to cuba.
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Martin Luther King made a speech about his desire for a future where black and whites, among others would coexist as equals
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president Jhon F. Kennedy was assassinated on this date by a gunman, he was shot in the throat and the head
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Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty"
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The Beatles arrived in the United States in New York to perform their first concert
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The Reliant Astrodome was first buiilt in Houston, its a domed sports stadium
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10,000 people showed up in Washington D.C showed up prostesting agaisnt antiwar
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US, USSR, and UK sign treaty to stop the use of neuclear weapons in outter space.
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It was the first spacecraft to land on the moon with astronauts aboard.
