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Moscow anounces putting first man around the earth
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USSR launches a hydrogen bomb, biggest explosion recorded in history
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Pope John Paul XXII opens second Vatican council
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Australia's involvment in vietnam war
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President J.F.K shot by sniper
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 other blacks arrested in Selma
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Racial violence and protests in Detroit
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Menzies retires after 16 years of being a Prime Minister
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Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, is slain in Memphis
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Robert F. Kennedy is shot and critically wounded in Los Angeles hotel after winning California primary
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Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement
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Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins—take man's first walk on moon