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22nd Amendment
Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting the president to two terms. President Truman speaks in first coast-to-coast live television broadcast -
Emmett Till's Murder
A 14-year-old African American teenager was brutally murdered by white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other -
President Assassination
John F. Kennedy was shot and assassinated on November 22, 1963 while he was in a parade. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president -
Man on the Moon
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon. -
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The U.S. got an invitation to play China at China and these were the first Americans to set foot in China since 1949. -
Nike
The company changed its name from Blue Ribbon Sports to Nike, Inc. -
Jimmy Carter/ Iran hostage crisis
52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days, after a group of Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran. -
HIV/AIDS
First case of AIDS was found in San Francisco. Started because of the Hippie Movement. -
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. -
Explosion
Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members.
