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Rosa Parks
She was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. -
US Supreme Court
US Supreme Court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. -
US Supreme Court
US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate. -
Luna 1
Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earths gravity. -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
He became the first human being to travel into space. -
Valentina Tereshkova
She became the first woman to travel into space. -
Alexey Leonov
He became the first person to walk in space, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes. -
Moon Landing
The United States' Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon. -
Richard Nixon
He became the first US President to visit China. -
Vietnam War
US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war.