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Jackie Robinson became the first black to play in the major leagues
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Mao Tsetung leads communist revolution in China
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Ghandi founds modern nation of India
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Sen. Joseph McCarthy claims the State Dept. is full of communists
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First color TV show
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Joseph Stalin dies
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Rosenbergs are executed for spying
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Treaty signed ending Korean War
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Sen. Joseph McCarthy is censured by the U.S Senate
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Bill Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"
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Albert Einstein dies
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First microwave oven
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Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
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Buddy Holly dies in plane crash
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U.S leaves Vietnam
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Pres. Eisenhower warns of the dangers of the "military-industrial complex"
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Berlin Wall goes up
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth
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Alan Shepard goes into space
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John Glenn orbits the earth
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Marilyn Monroe commits suicide
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James Meredith enrolls at the Univ. of Alabama
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Cuban missile crisis resolved peacefully
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. says, "I have a dream"
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered
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Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
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MLK assassinated
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My dad's birthday
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Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California
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Betty Freidan founds the National Organization of Women
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First Super Bowl is played
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My mom's birthday
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Muhammed Ali goes to jail
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Sen. Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam War
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Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
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Richard Nixon is elected for his first term in office
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President Johnson refuses to run for a second term in office
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Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
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Ho Chi Minh Dies
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Gloria Steinem publishes the first edition of "MS" Magazine
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Nixon visits Red China
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Watergate Hotel broken into
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Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics
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VP Spiro Agnew resigns from office
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Henry Aaron breaks Babe's record
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President Nixon resigns
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Gerald Ford became the first unelected president in history
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First Apple computer sold
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Elvis Presley dies
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Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accords
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Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide
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Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran
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Lee Iacoca takes over Chrysler
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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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U.S invasion of Dominican Republic/ Grenada/ Panama/ Iraq
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Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle
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Berlin Wall comes down
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My birthday
