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The Polio Vaccine is released.
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Rosa Parks gets arrested for refusing to give up her seat when a white man asks.
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Eisenhower is elected as president for his second term.
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The first nuclear power plant is created.
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United States launches their first satellite.
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Trained exiles from Cuba land at the Bay of Pigs trying to overthrow it.
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The United States bombs North Vietnam for the first time.
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Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated.
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Nixon gets reelected when he beats Senator George McGovern.
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