1. Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack while
serving as president.
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No
2. Rebels backed by the U.S. attempted a coup to
overthrow Fidel Castro.
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No
3. President Kennedy challenged his country to
land a man on the moon before the end of the
decade.
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No
4. Marilyn Monroe died.
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No
5. Johnny Carson began a 30-year reign as host
of the "Tonight Show."
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No
6. Elvis had his first number 1 hit.
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No
7. Elvis went into the Army.
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No
8. Elvis was discharged from the Army.
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No
9. President Kennedy was assassinated.
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No
10. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.
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No
11. Martin Luther King was assassinated.
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No
12. Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and
paralyzed while running for president.
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No
13. Richard Nixon lost the presidential election
by a razor-thin margin.
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No
14. Richard Nixon won the presidential
election.
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No
15. Richard Nixon was forced to resign from
office in disgrace.
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No
16. Three U.S. astronauts died in a fire on the
launchpad.
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No
17. Alan Shepard beame the first American to fly
into space.
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No
18. John Glenn orbited the earth three times in
the "Freedom 7."
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No
19. The U.S. landed a man on the moon.
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No
20. Alaska became the 49th state of the
union.
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No
21. An American spy plane was shot down over the
Soviet Union, giving the Russian leader all the reason
he needed to cancel disarmament talks with the U.S.
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No
22. 250,000 protestors marched against the war
in Washington, D.C.
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No
23. Four protestors were shot and killed by
members of the National Guard during a demonstration
against the war at Kent State University.
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No
24. The U.S. surgeon general declared that
cigarette smoking, a habit "enjoyed" by 60% of the
adult population, is a major health hazard.
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No
25. Ted Kennedy made a run for the presidency,
but didn't get very far.
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No
26. The National Guard was required to oversee
the peaceful integration of the University of
Mississippi.
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No
27. Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped
by the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army.
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No
28. Elvis died.
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No
29. The president declares war on poverty in the
U.S.
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No
30. The U.S. nearly went to war against the
Soviet Union because of the presence of Russian nuclear
missiles in Cuba.
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No
31. Charles Manson and other members of his cult
brutally murdered actress Sharon Tate and several
others.
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No
32. Sam Shepherd was found guilty of murdering
his wife.
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No
33. Sam Shepherd was found not guilty of
murdering his wife.
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No
34. Dr. Martin Luther King, preaching
non-violence, offered his "I Have a Dream" speech
before a audience of 200,000 in Washington, D.C.
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No
35. Huge and horrible race riots in Detroit
surpassed those in the Watts section of Los Angeles two
years earlier, in terms of both financial cost and
lives lost. Forty-one people died; Detroit's mayor
said, "It looks like Berlin in 1945."
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No
36. The first Super Bowl was played.
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No
37. The Twist became the newest dance craze.
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No
38. The Beatles led the "British invasion,"
landed in New York, and changed rock music forever.
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No
39. The women's liberation movement took off
with the publishing of "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty
Friedan.
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No
40. Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run
record.
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No
41. Disneyworld, a huge theme park outside of
Orlando, opened to the public.
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No
42. The landmark Supreme Court desicion, Roe vs.
Wade, gave women the legal right to have an
abortion.
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No
43. The minimum voting age in the U.S. is
officially lowered from 21 to 18.
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No
44. With hundreds of American soldiers dying
every week, the "troop strength" in Vietnam increased
to 475,000.
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No
45. Ted Kennedy nearly died in a plane
crash.
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No
46. Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge,
killing the passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.
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No
47. Under the direction of the Soviet Union,
East Berlin was encircled by a wall, imprisoning its
residents.
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No
48. Hawaii became the 50th state of the
union.
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No
49. Jackie Kennedy married Greek tycoon
Aristotle Onassis.
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No
50. Israel clobbered its Arab neighbors who
wanted to destroy it in the "Six Day War."
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No
51. Hugh Hefner published the first issue of his
controversial magazine, "Playboy."
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No