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Rosa Parks
Rosa, a black civil rights activist, who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus.
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Sputnik
Russia launched their first space satellite
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Bay of Pigs
Eisenhower authorized the invasion of Cuba. CIA used 1,400 member arny of Cuban exiles to try to overthrow Castro.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. held a Naval blockade to interrupt all offensive military equipment, went from October 14th-28th.
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John F. Kennedy Assassination
John F. Kennedy shot on Dallas motorcade by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Tonkin Gulf Incident
On August 2nd, three North Vietnamese patrol boats exchanged fire with American Destroyer Maddox.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray.
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Robert Kennedy
Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
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Roe VS Wade
U.S.supreme court struck down the 46 state laws restricting a womans right to an abortion.
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Richard Nixon Resignation
On August 8th, 1974 Richard Nixon resigned from his term as president, he was not willing to become the first president to be impeached.
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