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Russian satellite Sputnik launched
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Fidel Castro seizes power after overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista
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Yuri Gregarin of the Soviet Union becomes first man in space
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Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba fails
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Alan Shepard becomes first American man in space
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Berlin Wall erected
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the earth.
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President John Kennedy delivers speech on American Space Efforts
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Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union becomes first woman in space.
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas,Texas. Lyndon Johnson becomes 36th President of the United States.
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150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam
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Astronauts Grissom, Chaffee and White are killed in Apollo 1 launch pad disaster.
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Tet Offensive marks turning point in public support of Vietnam War
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Reverend Martin Luther King is assassinated.
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Robert Kennedy is assassinated.
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Apollo 8 successfully orbits the moon.
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Apollo 11 launches at Cape Canaveral, Florida
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Apollo 11 lands on surface of the moon. Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon.
