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Civil Rights Act of 1957
All Americans have the right to vote -
Sputnik 1
Russian launches first ever satellite in space -
Explorer I
First U.S. Satellite launched in space -
Cuba
Cuba becomes the first communist country in western hemisphere after Fidel Castro takes over -
Alaska and Hawaii
become the 49th and 50th states -
JFK assassination
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Oklahoma -
Vietnam War
U.S. enters Vietnam -
MLK assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Montgomery, Alabama -
First Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong becomes first man on the moon -
26th Amendment
18 year old voting rights