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1950s-1970s
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Brown vs. Board of Education First Argued
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Brown vs. Board of Education Reargued
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Brown vs. Board of Education Decided
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts
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Central High School Integrated in Little Rock Arkansas
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* The Birth Control Pill is Approved by the FDA
Development of 'the pill', as it became populary known, was intially commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger and funded by heiress Katherine McCormick. Sanger hoped to encourage the development of a more practical and effective alternative to contraceptives that were in use at the time. In the early 1950s, Gregory Pincus, a biochemist at the Worcester Foundations for Experimental Biology, and John Rock, a gynecologist at Harvard Medical School, began work on a birth control pill. -
John Kennedy Elected
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Freedom Riders
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* First Walmart Opens
The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31,1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock exchange in 1972. It is headquarted in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart is also the largest grocery retail in the United States. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the company rose from a regional to national giant. By 1988, Walmart was the most profitale retailer in the U.S. -
Rachel Carson writes Silent Spring
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* First James Bond Movie
The name of the first James Bond movie was Dr. No. Filming took place on location in Jamaica between January 16 and February 21, 1962; five days later filming began at Pinewood Studios in England with sets designed by Ken Adam. Maurice Binder created the title sequence and introduced the gun barrel motif that appears in all the Eon Bond Films. Monty Norman wrote the accompanying soundtrack which included the 'James Bond Theme', heard in the gun barrel sequence and in a calypso medly. -
Cuban Missle Crisis Begins
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Cuban Missile Crisis Ends
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The Feminine Mystique is published
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March on Washington
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Assassination of John Kennedy
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Civil Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson
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Gulf of Tonkin Begins
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Gulf of Tonkin Ends
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Assassination of Malcom X
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March on Selma
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Medicare and Medicaid Established
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Riots in WATTS Begins
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Riots in WATTS End
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Cesar Chavez and Farm Workers Strike
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* New York City's Great Blackout
Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles were left without electricity for up to 13 hours. Maintenance personnel incorrectly set a protective reley on one of the transmission lines between the Niagra generating system Sir Adam Beck Station No. 2 in Queenston, Ontario. The safety reley, which was to trip if the current exceeded the capacity of the transmission line, was set too low. As was common on a cold November night heating, lighting, and cooking were pushing the electrical system. -
Founding Conference for NOW
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* First Kwazaa Celebrated
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* First Heart Translplant
53 year old Lewis Washkansky recieves the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from Chronic Heart Disease, had recieved the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25 year old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. The Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in The United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation. After Washkanshy's surgery, he was given drug -
TET Offensive Begins
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Massacre at My Lai
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TET Offensive Ends
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Assassination of Robert Kennedy
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Lyndon Johnson re-elected to Presidency
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Nixon Becomes President
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Man On The Moon
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Woodstock Begins
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Woodstock Ends
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* Sesame Street First Airs
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*Beatles Break Up
By the time of the recording of the 1968 double-record set 'The Beatles' (A.K.A. The White Album) things had gotten worse. The Beatles started working less and less like a band, and each member was starting to focus on their own compostions in the studio and treating the others like sidemen. The film 'Let it Be' shows the tensions running high and resentment building. After repeated clashes with new business manager Allen Klien, Paul Mccartney was looking for it to end, before the others. -
First Earth Day Observed
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Kent State Protesters Killed
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SALT 1 Summit
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Watergate Scandal Begins
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Watergate Scandal Ends
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Title IX is Passed
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Roe vs. Wade Passed
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Wounded Knee and FBI clash begins
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Wounded Knee and FBI Clash Ends
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OPEC Oil Embargo
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*Terracotta Army Discovered in China
Three farmers were digging holes in hopes of finding water to dig wells when they came upon some ancient terracotta pottery shrads. What these farmers had discovered was the 2200-year-old remains of a life-sized, terracotta army which had been buried with Qin Shihuangdi, the man who had united the varied provinces of China and thus became the first emporer of China. He began building his own mausoleum nearly as soon as he came to power at age 13. It is believed that it took 700,000 workers. -
Nixon resigns and Ford Becomes President
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*VHS Comes to America
The VHS was introduced to North America at a press conference. The VHS, or Videa Home System, allowed longer playtime faster rewinding and fast-forwarding. The VHS used 0.5-inch magnetic tape wound between two spools. The tape would slowly pass over the playback and recording heads of the VCR. JVS licensed the VHS format to other electronic makers such as Sharp, so in its first year, many brands of VHS machines flooded the market. During the first year the VHS had taken forty percent of business -
*Elvis Found Dead
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*First Test-Tube Baby Born
The first test-tube baby was born on July 25, 1978. The baby was born at Oldham General Hospital. The baby was a product of Vitro Fertilization. The conception of the baby actually took place in a Petri Dish. The baby was able to concieve and have a child naturally. The baby caused some Religious concerns to be brought out into the open. Some people thought that Vitro Fertilization could end up making woman 'baby factories'. The doctors were Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards. -
*Microsoft Founded
Microsoft was formed soon after the introduction of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems. Bill Gates and Paul Allen seized the opportunity to transform the early PC into a breakthrough. Allen, employed by Honeywell, and his friend, Gates, a sophmore at Harvard, immediately set out to adapt the first personal computer language for the Altair, called BASIC. They worked in 24-hour marathons sessions to complete a working product, which was licensed to MITS. Allen accepted position with MITS -
ERA passes Congress as a proposed amendment