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The Jewish murderer, Adolf Eichmann, was captured in Argentina by Israelis.
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The United States breaks their diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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The United States invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs where around 1,200 anti-Castros were killed that were aided by the United States. Cuba stopped the invasion with a decisive victory.
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France and West Germany signed a treaty of cooperation which ended four centuries of conflict.
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A civil rights rally was held in Washington, D.C. as Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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President Kennedy was shot and killed by a sniper in Dallas, Texas and Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
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Congress approves the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.
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Malcolm X, a black-nationalist leader, was shot to death at the Harlem rally in New York City.
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Medicare, a senior citizens' government medical assistance program, begins.
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A power failure in an Ontario plant blacks out parts of eight different states of northeast U.S. and two provinces of southeast Canada.
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Black teenagers riot in Watts, Los Angeles; two men were killed and at least 25 were injured.
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Three Apollo astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee were killed in a spacecraft fire during a simulated launch.
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Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and a team of South African surgeons performs the world's first successful human heart transplant, the patient died 18 days later.
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North Korea seizes the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo and holds 83 on board as spies to use as a battle tactic.
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Martin Luther King, Jr, a civil rights leader, is murdered in Memphis.
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Richard M. Nixon is elected the 37th president of the U.S. after a decisive win in the polls.