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US grants independence to the Philippines
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Arthur Miller produces Death of a Salesman
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Ralph Ellison publishes Invisible Man
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Supreme Court rules public school segregation to be unconstitutional
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Flannery O' Connor publishes A Good Man is Hard to Find
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Alaska and Hawaii admitted to the Union and the 49th and 50th states
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Joseph Heller publishes Catch-22
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Environmental protection movement started because of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring
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President JFK was assassinated in Dallas
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Ariel, last collection of poems was published by Sylvia Path
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MLK Jr. was murdered in Memphis
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Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon
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Last set of US combat troops leave Vietnam, peace treaty was signed in 1973
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Ronald Reagan was elected president
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington D.C.
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Reagan and Gorbachev sign the INF treaty, agreeing to ban some nuclear missiles
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George Bush was elected president
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Congress passes the American with Disabilities
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Bill Clinton was elected president
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Toni Morrison wins Nobel Prize
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Amy Tan publishes her third novel, The Hundred Secret Senses
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Summer Olympic Games were held in Atlanta, GA
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Frank McCourt's autobiography wins a Pulitzer Prize
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George W Bush defeats Al Gore in presidential election
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Eudora Welty dies
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Hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center in New York
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President George W Bush is re-elected
