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Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show
Elvis makes his big first appearance on live TV -
Sputnik is Launched
The first manmade satellite in orbit, by the CCCP -
First Men On The Moon
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. Arrive on the surface of the moon in the Apollo 11 Lander -
Watergate Scandal
5 employees of Nixon's election campaign are caught breaking into rival democratic headquarters -
Microsoft is Founded
Bill Gates and Paul Allen launch the operating system named BASIC -
Viking 2 Landing
The Viking 2 spacecraft lands on Mars, launched September 9th 1975 -
AIDS Becomes Known
AIDS is first discovered to be the cause of mysterious deaths. -
Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff killing all 7 crew members. It has been determined that the explosion was caused by 2 rubber "O" rings that separated 2 different parts of a main booster had failed to seal because of cold weather that morning. -
Chernobyl DIsaster
Mysteriously, reactor 4 violently exploded spewing radioactive particles thousands of miles around.
