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Brown v Board of Education
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**First nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned**
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**Warsaw Pact signed**
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**Disneyland opens**
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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**Khruschev denounces Stalin**
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Central High School integrated
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**Laika sent into space**
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**NASA founded**
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**First hovercraft shown to public**
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**First American death in Vietnam**
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**First Laser fired**
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**First episode of The Flintsones**
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John F. Kennedy elected
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Freedom Riders first ride
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**US aid arrives in Vietnam**
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**Compact Cassette Tape invented**
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Rachel Carson writes Silent Spring
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Feminine Mystique published
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**Postal Service requires ZIP Code**
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March on Washington
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Assassination of John F. kennedy
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**Ford introduces the Mustang**
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Civil Rights act signed
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Lyndon Johnson re-elected
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Assassination of Malcom X
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**Operation Rolling Thunder**
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Selma to Montgomery Marches
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Watts Riots
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Cesar Chavez and farm workers strike
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**Kevlar invented**
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**Super Bowl I**
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**M16 is adopted as standard service rifle**
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**First heart transplant**
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Tet Offensive
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**First call to 9-1-1**
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My Lai Massacre
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Assassination of Robert Kennedy
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Founding Conference for NOW
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Nixon inaugurated
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**ARPANET, predecessor to the Internet is invented**
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Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
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Woodstock Festival
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**Sesame Street debuts**
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First Earth Day observed
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Protesters at Kent State killed
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Equal Rights Ademendment passes Congress
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**First video game console released**
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Watergate scandal
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Title IX
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SALT 1 summit
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**Lyndon Johnson dies**
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Roe v Wade decided
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Wounded Knee incident
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OPEC Oil Embargo
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Nixon resigns
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**Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon**