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Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president. Eisenhower never saw active combat. Eisenhower banished all squirrels from the white house because they were ruining his putting green. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war is considered a resistance against the Americans by the Vietnamese. This war occurred in Vietnam. This was started on November 1st 1955. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
Elvis Presley
Elvis was drafted into the Army. -
Hippie Culture
hey made their way to Northern California this year. The Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States and Woodstock on the East Coast. -
Ping Pong-Diplomacy
The United states received an invitation to play china in China. These were the first Americans to set foot in china since 1948. -
Richard Nixon/Watergate Scandal
Break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. -
End of Vietnam War
The end of the war. The U.S. pulls out. -
HIV/AIDS
First case of AIDS was found in San Francisco. Started because of the Hippie Movement. -
John Lennon's Death
He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City. -
Cold War
Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine which, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments. -
New Technology
The World Wide Web or internet is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Whch was made on this day.
