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The Polio Vaccine
The Polio Vaccine is proved effective and released on a massive scale curbing a deadly disease, with the first vaccine in America being available in early 1955 -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her seat when ordered to by the driver of the bus. -
The Sputnik Satellite
The Soviet Union launches the first manmade satellite named Sputnik into outer space pulling them ahead in the space race. -
U-2 Spy Plane shot down
An American U-2 Spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union and proven to be linked with spying tarnishing US and Soviet Relations. -
JFK defeats Nixon
President John F. Kennedy Narrowly defeats President Richard Nixon in what many believe to be a rigged election -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
During the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis the Kennedy Administration launched a failed Cuban counter Operation to kill Fidel Castro and restore order to the newly Communist Nation. -
JFK assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in his convertible during a trip to Dallas Texas, and was succeeded by Lyndon B Johnson. -
MLK assassinated
Reverend and Civil Rights Activist and Speaker Martin Luther King Junior is shot in a motel in Memphis Tennessee -
The Watergate Scandal
Burglars are founded robbing the Democratic National Committee headquarters and are ultimately linked back to President Nixon leading to his resignation.