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Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white person in a boycott effort.
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Alaska becomes 49th state in the US
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JFK becomes 35th president of the US. He was a democratic party president who was later assassinated.
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Alan Shepard was the first US man in space.
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JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Tx by Lee Oswald as the president was in his car.
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James Earl Ray murder Dr. MLK in his hotel room in memphis, Tennessee. This event cause riots around the country to break out.
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Richard Nixon served as the 37th US president.
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Neil Armstrong in the apollo 11 mission step foot on the moon's surface.
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The 26th Amendment reduced the voting age to 18 years of age in 1971
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A joint US-Soviet space flight between two competing world powers of the time.
