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2November 22, 1963 - In Dallas, Texas, during a motorcade through downtown, President John F. Kennedy escapes assasination by  Lee Harvey Oswald. Two days later, Oswald was transfered to federal custody. He is convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison on December 9th.
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5January 9, 1964 - The Panama Canal incident occurs when Panamanian mobs engage United States troops, leading to the death of twenty-one Panama citizens and four U.S. troops.
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7January 13, 1964 - Beatlemania hits the shores of the United States with the release of I Want to Hold Your Hand, which becomes the Liverpool group's first North American hit. One week later, their first U.S. album Meet the Beatles is released.
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9April 22, 1964 - The New York World's Fair opens in Queens, New York on the site of the 1939 event. One of the largest world's fairs in United States history, it was not a sanctioned Bureau of International Exhibitions event, due to conflict over the dates of the Seattle fair of 1962. This world's fair would last for two seasons, and included exhibits from eighty nations. 
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11June 29, 1964 - An omnibus legislation in the U.S. Congress on Civil Rights fails. It would have banned discrimination in jobs, voting and accommodations. Kennedy failed to gain the support of Southern Democrats and midwest Republicans.
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13August 7, 1964 - The Tonkin Resolution is passed by the United States Congress, authorizing broad powers to the president to take action in Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats had attacked two United States destroyers five days earlier.
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15November 3, 1964 - President John F. Kennedy wins his re-election with a victory over Barry M. Goldwater from Arizona. Kennedy extended his term with a 486 to 52 thrashing of the 
16Republican candidate in the Electoral College and over 15 million surplus in the popular vote.
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20February 7, 1965 - President  John F. Kennedy orders the continuous bombing of North Vietnam below the 20th parallel. 
21March 25, 1965 - Martin Luther King speaks at a civil rights rally on the courthouse steps of the Alabama State Capitol, ending the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march for voting rights.
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23August 6, 1965 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is defeated. Two significant portions of the act; the continuation of the requirement of potential voters to take a literacy test in order to vote causes many civil rights organizations to question the Democratic Party's commitment to reform.
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25August 11, 1965 - The Watts race riots in Los Angeles begin a seven day siege, culminating in the death of 46 people and property destruction in excess of $300 million.
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27October 15, 1965 - Kennedy speaks at the University of Washington and assures students that they will not be drafted into combat in Vietnam and that no more 12,000 advisors and Marines will be committed to Vietnam. It is picketed by the anti-war group of students, National Coordinating Committee for Peace in Vietnam.
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30June 29, 1966 - United States warplanes begin their bombing raids of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam. By December of this year, the United States had 26,100 troops stationed in South Vietnam with seven thousand in Thailand.
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32July 7, 1966 - John F. Kennedy signs legislation creating a Federal Loan Program for college students similar to the Montgomery GI Bill. The budget also comes packaged with grants for space and nuclear research and another major tax cut supported by both parties.
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34August 11, 1966 - Vice-President Johnson announces that he will resign his office after a series of fallouts over Kennedy's policy choices and relationship with Congress. House Speaker John W. McCormack is appointed to the office of Vice-President.
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36September 9, 1966 - President John F. Kennedy signed legislation creating the San Juan Island National Historical Park. The site, in Washington State, includes the location of British and United States army camps in the 1860s when both nations claimed ownership of the island.
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38October 15, 1966 - The National Historic Preservation Act is made law. It expanded the National Register of Historic Places to include historic sites of regional, state, and local significance.
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40November 8, 1966 - The first black United States Senator in eighty-five years, Edward Brooke, is elected to Congress. Brooke was the Republican candidate from Massachusetts and former Attorney General of that state.
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43January 27, 1967 - The Outer Space Treaty is signed into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, to take effect on October 10, 1967.
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45June 23, 1967 - A three day summit between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, held at Glassboro State College in New Jersey, culminates in a mutual declaration pledging to reduce arms and a commitment to Peace Talks between North and South Vietnam.
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47July 1967 - Black riots plague U.S. cities. In Newark, New Jersey, twenty-six are killed, fifteen hundred injured and one thousand arrested from July 12 to 17. One week later, July 23 to 30, forty are killed, two thousand injured, and five thousand left homeless after rioting in Detroit, known as the 12th Street Riots, decimate a black ghetto. The riots are eventually stopped by over 12,500 Federal troopers and National Guardsmen.
48September 1, 1967 - Extramarital affairs by President John F. Kennedy are exposed in the press and ensuing scandal sends Kennedy's approval ratings below 50% for the first time.
49October 2, 1967 - Wilfred Feinberg is sworn into office as associated Supreme Court Justice.
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52January 23, 1968 - The U.S.S. Pueblo incident occurs in the Sea of Japan when North Korea seizes the ship and its crew, accusing it of violating its territorial waters for the purpose of spying. They would release the prisoners on December 22, but North Korea still holds possession of the U.S.S. Pueblo to this day. Many in the party publicly criticize President Kennedy for being "soft on communism".
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54February 13, 1968 - Ford's Theatre, the site of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 in Washington, D.C., reopens to the public. It had been restored to its original appearance and use as a theatre, now comprising the Ford's Theatre National Historic Site.
55March 3, 1968 - Jackie Onassis Kennedy files for divorce. The media covers the scandal for months and continues to damage relations with the Party for President Kennedy in light of the upcoming elections.
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57March 31, 1968 - President Kennedy announces an agreement has been reached with North Vietnam, along with the Soviet Union, that would include a ceasefire and financial aid for the South Vietnam government. Peace talks were concluded in Paris; all bombing of North Vietnam halted April 1.
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59April 4, 1968 - Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a motel balcony by James Earl Ray.
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61June 4, 1968 - Presidential candidate, the Democratic Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, nominated for president by the Democratic Party in a tightly contested race with Hubert H. Humphrey.
62August 21, 1968 - Both President John F. Kennedy and presidential nominee George Wallace denounce the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia because of the Prague Spring reforms.
63November 5, 1968 - President-Elect George Wallace holds the White House for the Democratic party with his victory over Ronald Reagan. George Wallace captures 321 Electoral College Votes to 263 for Reagan.
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66January 12, 1969 - The New York Jets win Super Bowl III over the Baltimore Colts after a bold prediction by quarterback Joe Namath. This is the first victory in the National Football League for a former American Football League team.
67July 12, 1969 - The Apollo program completes its mission. Neil Armstrong, United States astronaut, becomes the first man to set foot on the moon four days after launch from Cape Canaveral. His Apollo 11 colleague, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. accompanies him.
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69August 14, 1969 - President George Wallace announces his new Cold War policy, declaring the Wallace Doctrine that assured tha any Asian allies facing Communist take-over will be vigorously defended by US power. This policy, and his suspension of arms limits, would be heavily protested throughout the remainder of the year.
70November 20, 1969 - Charles Le May is appointed as Secretary of Defense and outlines a plan for deployment of medium-range ICBM's to Europe and Japan.
71November 21, 1969 - The Internet, called Arpanet during its initial development, is invented by the Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense. The first operational packet switching network in the world was deployed connecting the IMP at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute. By December 5, it included the entire five node system, with the UCSB, University of Utah and the National Laboratory at Los Alamos. 
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74April 1, 1970 - For the first time, the 1970 census counted over 200 million people living in the United States. The 13.4% increase since the last census indicated that a 203,302,031 population now called the U.S.A. home. It had taken only fifty years to go from the first 100 million census in 1920 to the second. Once again, the geographic center of the United States population was in Illinois, five miles east southeast of Mascoutah.
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76April 22, 1970 - The first 3rd generation nuclear reactors begin construction under federal legislation signed by President George Wallace to expand nuclear power through total indemnification. 
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78August 10, 1970 - The United States Postal Service faces strikes by minority workers over discrimnation in pay. George Wallace fires them by executive order. Civil rights protests occur in major cities over the remainder of the year.
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81January 2, 1971 - A crackdown on obscenity in television, radio and film begins after President George Wallace signs legislation codifying the Motion Picture Production Codes into law and expanding them to all mass media. President George Wallace uses the FCC to censor advocacy for civil rights and communism.
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83February 16, 1971 - A sixty-four day raid into North Vietnam by South Vietnamese soldiers is begun with the aid of United States air and naval support.
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85March 10, 1971 - The Senate rejects a Constitutional Amendment, the 26th, that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18. 
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87September 17, 1971 - The advent of the microprocessor age at Texas Instruments includes the introduction of the 4-bit TMS 1000 with a calculator on the chip; on November 15, 1971, Intel released the 4-bit 4004 microprocessor developed by Federico Faggin. It is unknown whose chip predated the other in the laboratory environment.
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89October 1, 1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida, expanding the Disney empire to the east coast of the United States. Under Florida Law the park was segregated by race and was picketed often by civil rights protestors.
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92February 21, 1972 - President Wallace visits Japan and meets with Asian leaders vowing to counter the growing threat of Red China and pledges additional aid for allies. 
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94March 30, 1972 - The largest attacks by North Vietnam troops across the demilitarized zone in four years prompts bombing raids to begin again by United States forces against Hanoi and Haiphong on April 15, ending a four year cessation of those raids.
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96May 21, 1972 - President Wallace denounces Moscow in an address to the UN. On July 8, the White House would reject an arms limit treaty with the Soviet Union in exchange for wheat sales. Soviet Union increases its support for North Vietnam.
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98June 17, 1972 - The Race Riots begin across the South when four men are beaten and arrested for staging a sit-in at a segregated diner in Macon, GA; The same day that the Civil Rights Act failed to pass a second time in Congress. The riots would continue for 2 weeks until they were finally surpressed by National Gaurd units from 6 states.
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100November 7, 1972 - In one of the most closely contested races in American Presidential election history, incumbent President George Wallace beat his Republican challenger Nelson Rockefeller, winning 294 Electoral College votes to Rockefeller's 243. The campaign highlighted the divide between the GOP and the Democratic Party over segregation, trade and cold war policy. Blacks in this election turned out heavily for Republican candidates after Rockefeller pledged to renew the push for the Civil Rights and Voting Acts.
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103January 15, 1973 - Race riots occur in Baltimore, Atlanta and Birmingham resulting in National Gaurd deployments. This occurs after the conviction, in Atlanta, of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, and seven others for incitement of a riot. Jackson spends the next 6 years in prison.
104January 22, 1973 - The United States Supreme Court rules 5-4 in Roe vs. Wade that a state can prohibit abortion at any time during pregnancy.
105June 9, 1973 - Communist forces complete their takeover of South Vietnam, forcing the evacuation from Saigon of civilians from the United States and the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam. President George Wallace asks Congress for funding for deploying 320,000 marines and soldiers to Cambodia to recapture South Vietnam.
106October 2, 1973 - Vice-President Strom Thurmond is assasinated by Arthur Bremer at a convention in Charlotte, NC. The Speaker of the House, Rep. Carl Albert, is appointed as Vice-President under the 25th amendment.
107October 4th, 1973 - 48,000 US troops have arrived in Cambodia since August and, have established forward operation bases for liberation of the South Vietnam. The US Pacific Fleet begins bombing runs over Hanoi and Haiphong. A US bomb hit the Soviet embassy in Hanoi causing a major diplomatic row and bringing US-Soviet relations to their lowest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
108October 10, 1973 - The Arab Oil Embargo: Oil imports from Arab oil-producing nations are banned to the United States after the start of Operation Nickel Grass.
109October 13, 1973 - As fierce land and air battles raged between Israel and its Arab neighbors in the Yom Kippur War, the US Sixth Fleet and the Soviet Mediterranean Squadron engage in combat over the downing of Soviet aircraft. Soviet vessels retreated after one sunk and state of war was declared between the US and the Sovet Union. The Soviet fleet manage to disable the carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. Causalties on both sides fueled mutual calls for war between the Soviet Union and the US. 
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