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End of WW2
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Korea splits in to North and South at the DMZ
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"Lord of the Flies" is published by William Golding
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Vietnam War begins
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Russian's place Sputnik in to orbit
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Catch-22 is published by Jospeh Heller
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JFK assassinated in Dallas
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MLK Jr. assassinated
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Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon
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Last US combat in Vietnam, The Watergate scandal
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Ronald Reagan elected president of US
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Treaty between Gorbachev and Reagan ban nuclear missiles
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Berlin Wall torn down
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George Bush elected president
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Bill Clinton elected
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Toni Morrison wins Nobel Prize for literature
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Summer Olympic games held in Georgia
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9/11 Terrorist plane attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and PA. Many deaths
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George Bush re-elected
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oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
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Osama Bin Laden is killed
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Donald Trump elected as president