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Raymond was born
in Oregon -
Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
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U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
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Brink's robbery in Boston
almost $3 million stolen -
Korean war begins
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Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
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Cigarette smoking is reported to cause lung cancer for the first time.
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Heavy flooding in Holland kills 2,000 people
is when the flooding began -
The U.S. launched the first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Raymond graduated from Yakima High School
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Elvis Presley releases the first of more than 170 hit songs, "Heartbreak Hotel."
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married Maryann Burk
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first child born, Christine La Rae
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Cat in the Hat was published
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NASA founded
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their second child was born a boy, Vance Lindsay Carver
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The Sound of Music opened on Broadway
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Alaska and Hawaii becomes part of the US
49th and 50th states in the United States. -
Students protest segregation
In Greensboro, North Carolina, by staging "sit-ins" at whites-only lunch counters. -
he attended Iowa Writers' Workshop
1963-1964 -
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? was published
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Everything stuck to him was taken out of this book. having 4 other short stories in the book -
Raymond divorced his first wife
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Raymond married Tess Gallagher
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Raymond died
Port Angeles, Washington
