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Peter Pan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(1954_musical)
Peter pan known as Mary Martin. Mary Martin starred in a Disney TV musical in 1955. -
Disney Land
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/disneyland.htm
Disney land was a theme park. It was created in 1955 by Waltz Disney -
Princess Grace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Kelly
Princess Grace releases her last film, High Society, and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco. -
Little Rock
http://www.centralhigh57.org/
Little Rock was located in Arkansas,is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor Orval Faubus stops the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock Central High School and President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys the 101st Airborne Division to counteract him -
Space Monkey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_in_space Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18. -
Buddy Holly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly Buddy dies in a plane crash with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture. -
Birth Control
http://www.browndailyherald.com/features/in-1965-brown-physician-sparked-furor-over-the-pill-1.1675089 Birth control : In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin. -
Richard Nixon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1968
Richard Nixon is back again. Former Vice President Nixon is elected in the 1968 presidential election of the United States -
Sally Ride
https://sites.google.com/a/op97.org/5thhistory/original/sally-ridge-1983
In 1983 she becomes the first American woman in space. Dr. Ride's quip from space "Better than an E-ticket", harkens back to the opening of Disneyland mentioned earlier, with the E-ticket purchase needed for the best rides. -
Wheel of Fortune
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072584/
A hit television game show which has been TV's highest-rated syndicated program since 1983.
