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Dr. Benjamin Spock's, "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" is obtained by many Americans
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Consumerism rises
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Americans purchase televisions
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US History
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Dr. Jonas Salk develops the polio vaccine
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Ray Kroc opens the first franchised McDonald's restaurant
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Disneyland opens
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man and sparks the Montgomery Buis Boycott
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Elvis Presley's first number one hit
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Interstate Highway Act
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Crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Launch of Sputnik
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American Express credit card
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NASA established
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medtronic develops the first fully implantable pacemaker
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Beatnik movement
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SNCC organized
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U-2 Incident
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Civil Rights Act of 1960
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First televised debate
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Alliance for Progress
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Peace Corps established
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Race to the moon begins
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Vietnam War officially begins
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The "Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan published
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March to Washington
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John F. Kennedy Assassinated
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Grape Boycott
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President Johnson proposes the Great Society
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Tax Reduction Act
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Economic Opportunity Act
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Appalachian Regional Development Act
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Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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Omnibus Housing Act
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Edward White II takes the first spacewalk by an American
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Medicaid and Medicare enacted
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Voting Rights Act
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Immigration Act of 1965
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Demonstration Cities and Metroppolitan Areas Redevelopment Act
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National Organization for Women (NOW) founded
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Air Quality Act
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First "Living Room War"
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Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
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"Vietnamization" begins
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
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First Woodstock Festival
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Earth Day established
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Kent State shootings
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Jackson State killings
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Public Broadcasting Service launched
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established
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26th Amendment ratified
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Watergate Scandal
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Apollo 17 flies to the moon
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Paris Peace Accords
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President Nixon resigns
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Bill Gates founds Microsoft
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Fall of Saigon
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Copyright Act of 1976