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Joe Dimaggio was a popular baseball player for the New York Yankees.
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Doris Day became a popular movie star and singer.
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Harry Truman started his second term as president of the United States.
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South Pacific was a highly popular broadway musical and hit movie.
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Joe McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin.
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Richard Nixon was a membor of the house of representatives, and prooved Alger Hiss guilty of being a communist spy.
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The Studebaker was a popular car.
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Color was introduced to the television.
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The Rosenburgs were arrested, and executed for selling secrets of the automic bomb to the Soviet Union.
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Sugar Ray was the middle-weight boxing champoin of the world.
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The Catcher and the Rye was an extremely popular book among teens.
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The vaccine to the disease polio was discovered by Jonas Salk.
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Rocky Marciano was the heavy-weight boxing champoin of the world. He retired undefeated.
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Famed philosopher George Santayana doed om 1952
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Joseph Stalin was a dictator that had millions of people executed.
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Rockefeller was vice-president, who was also known has a playboy and hard drinker.
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Roy Campanella was a catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and got paralyzed in a car accident.
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Juan Peron was an anti-American and aimed at impowering the working class.
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Bill Haley and the Comets, came out with Rock Around the Clock which was considered the first rock-and-roll hit.
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Toscanini was one of the greatest conductors of all time.
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Einstein developed the theory of Relativity.
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Davy Crockett, a backwoods guy, became really popular among young boys.
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Elvis Presley had a lot of his songs banned because of his inapproperiate dancing.
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In Alabama there was a bus boycott.
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Krushchev advocated reform, and critized Stalin.
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US withdrew financial support from the Egyptian damn.
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Nine African American students attended Little Rock Highschool and were harassed.
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Mickey Mantel was a switch hitter that led the league in batting average and homeruns.
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Sputnik was the first orbiting satellite sent up to space.
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President sent marines into Leabanon to help stop riots
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Srarkweather was a serial killer who killed 11-15 pople in a month and a half.
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This was used to prevent morning sickness over pregnancy and created severe diformities to the child.
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Buddy Holly was a popular singer who got killed in a plane crash.
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Ham the space monkey was sent up to space in an American satellite.
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Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban dictator and was sworn in as Prime Minister. He was a big time communist.
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The U-2 was a spy plane that was flew over the Soviet Union, and was later shot down.
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Kennedy ,was assassinated in Dallas Texas.
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Psyco was a gruesom thriller movie.
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Eichmann was a Nazi leader who was convicted of war cimes, and executed.
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The Berlin wall was constructed dividing the city into two parts,
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was a planned overthrow of Castro in Cuba.
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Ole Miss admitted it's first African-American student.
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John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
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Liston became the heavy-weight champoin, was feared by all other boxers., and changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
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Pope Paul was the first pope to visit six continents.
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Secretary of State had an affair with a show girl.
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Kennedy was riding in a convertible and was shot in the head.
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Richard Nixon lost the election for President in 1960, and also lost his bid for Govonor of California in 1962, then he fought back to win the Presidential election in 1968.
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The United States landed the first man on the moon.
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A farmer in the Woodstock area of New York state donated his land for a rock concert, and it became the biggest rock concert ever held.
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Supporters and staff of President Richard Nixon were accused of breaking into the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate hotel. Nixon tried to cover the scandel up and was soon he forced to resign from office.
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Movie actor Ronald Reagan became President of the United States.
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Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
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Bernie Goetz e got on a subway and, four African-American youths approached Goetz and demanded $5 from him. He pulled out a gun and shot all four. This brought up the debate to whether people had the right to take the law into their own hands.
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In 1989, thousands of protesters marched in Tiananmen Square in Bejing, China. Many were killed and China went under martial law until order was restored.
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South African activist, Nelson Mandela is freed after spending 27 years as a political prisoner.
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168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals, were killed in the bombing of a federal building in Oaklahoma City.
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After denying the afair for close to a year, the President held a press conference to admit to having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.
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A series of coordinated suicide attacks took place in the United States. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, killing everyone on board, along with many others working in the buildings.
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Launched in 2004, Facebook later became the most popular social networking site on the web.
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Barack Obama was elected the forty-fourth president of the United States in January of this year, becoming the first African American to do so.