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Ole Miss
The new college opens up in Mississipi
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Harry Truman
Harry Truman comes into office when Roosevelt is killed
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Space Monkey
The first successful space monkey trip is launched into space.
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"The King and I"
The musical of this famous book became popular in this time
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower came into office
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Malenkov
Serves as president until he is overpowered by Khrushchev
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Joseph Stalin
Stalin dies
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Hydrogen Bomb
A h-bomb is created that is small enough to fit inside an airplane
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Disneyland
This theme park opens up for children
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Brooklyns got a winning team
The Brooklyn Dodgers finally win the World Series
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Princess Grace
Princess Grace marries the Prince of Monaco
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Charles de Gualle
Gualle is elected as the president of the french fifth republic.
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Belgians in the Congo
The Congo wanted independence from the Belgians
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British Beatlemania
People in Great Britian become obssessed with this popular bands music. -
Berlin Crisis
The last major event of the Cold War era
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Bay of Pigs invasion
An unsuccessful CIA mission is launched to invade southern Cuba
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Liston Beats Patterson
Liston beat Patterson in a heavyweight championship
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British Politician Sex
A scandal that occured with secretary John Profumo.
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JFK Blown Away
JFK is assassinated
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Malcom X
Malcom X says that he is not sad about JFK's assassination
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Rock and Roller Cola Wars
Coke vs. Pepsi!
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Palestine
The flight of hundreds of thousands of palestinians out of the territories taken by Isreal
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Woodstock
A gathering of peace and music
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Ho Chi Minh
The leader of china dies
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Richard Nixon
Nixon is elected to be president of the United States
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Crack
Crack begins to circle around
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Khrushchev
Khrushchev dies of heart disease
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Punk Rock
A new music genre is created in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia
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The Wheel of Fortune
A new game show in created in America
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Zhou Enlai
The ruler of the Peoples Republic in China dies
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Terror on the airlines
Airplane highjackings begin to occur
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Russians in Afghanistan
Many russians are living in Afghanistan due to cooperation between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan
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AIDS
The AIDS epidemic begins
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Birth Control
Birth control becomes wildy popular.
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U2
The U2 fighter jets are recreated
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Foreign Debts
Foreign Debts skyrocketed
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President Reagan
Reagan comes into office.
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Heavy Metal Suicide
A new age of music begins. Lawsuits are made because they say it leads to people commiting suicide.
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China's under martial law
Martial law is ended in China
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Hypodermics on the shore
Many hypodermic needles wash up on a shore in New Jersey
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