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Period: to
1945 to present
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major leagues
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Mao Zedong takes control of China
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First color TV show
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Joseph Stalin dies
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Rosenburgs are executed for spying
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Treaty signed to end the Korean War
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Rosa Parks boycotts Montgomery buses
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Albert Einstein dies
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First Microwave oven
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Bill Haley records "Rock Around The Clock"
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My Dad's birthday
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My Mom's birthday
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Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper die in a plane crash
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John Glenn orbits Earth
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Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth
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Alan Shepard goes into space
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Berlin Wall goes up
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James Meredith enrolls at University of Alabama
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Marilyn Monroe commits suicide
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MLK says "I have a dream"
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JFK is assassinated
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Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered
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Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan show
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US invasion of the Dominican Republic
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Betty Friedan founds the National Organization for Women
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First Super Bowl
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Muhammad Ali goes to jail
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Sen Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam war
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MLK is assassinated
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Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Cuban Missile Crisis resolved peacefully
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Pres. Johnson refuses to run for a second term
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Richard Nixon is elected for his first term in office
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Neil Armstrong
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Ho Chi Minh dies
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US leaves Vietnam
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Gloria Steinem publishes the first issue of Ms. Magazine
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Nixon visits Red China
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The Watergate Hotel is broken into
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Israeli athletes killed at Munich Olympics
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Spiro Agnew resigns
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Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's HR record
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Nixon resigns
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First Apple computer sold
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Elvis dies
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Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accords
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Lee Iacocca takes control of Chrysler
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Jonestown mass suicide
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Ayatollah Khomeni takes power
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John Lennon murdered
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Ronald Reagan becomes president
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Britain wins Falklands war
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US invasion of Grenada
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Christa McAuliffe becomes first civilian to ride in a space shuttle
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Berlin Wall comes down
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US invasion of Panama
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First US invasion of Iraq
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Sir Dr. Erik Freundlich, PhD, Esq. graces the world with his birth