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These are abbreviated versions of the actual headlines. 3 Apollo Astronauts Die in Fire Fire Erupts on Steamboat Battle of Britain Hitler's Olympics Astronauts Float in Space 2 Black Power Advocates Mount Everest Conqurered "King's Dream" Speech 25,000 Go to Alabama's Capitol 250,000 War Protesters 8 KKK Sent To Prison for Civil Workers Deaths Kent State Massacre Gun Battle in Waco, Texas Montgomery Bus Riots Ready for Peace Babe Ruth St. Valentine's Day Massacre The Mayday Tribe 9 Israelis on Olympic Team Killed Hong Kong Returns to Chinese Rule A Proclamation by the President of the United States A Revolution in Hawaii Afghan President Is Ousted Agnew Quits Vice Presidency President Truman signed the Marshall Plan "Roswell" Report AIRSHIP AFTER BUYER Civil Rights March Broken Ip in Selma, Ala. Allende Out, Reported Suicide Allies Liberate Paris From Nazis Allies Open Trial Amelia Earhart First American to "Walk" in Space Second Battle of the Marne American forces invaded Okinawa during World War II Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer Andrea Doria Disasterous Bay of Pigs Invasion Arkansas Troops Bar Negro Pupils Armistice Signed ASSEMBLY VOTES PALESTINE PARTITION Astronauts Carry Out Early Oklahoma's Federal Building Bombed Mount St. Helens Erupts Bombing of Nagasaki Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death Austria Formally Declares War on Servia Incident That led to WW1 Lincoln Shot Bonnie And Clyde Shot to Death by Police Battle of Antietam Creek Tiananmen Square Beirut Death Toll at 161 Americans The Fall of Berlin Yalta Agreement Signed BIG ATOMIC PLANT Martin Luther King Wins Senate Overrode President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill Birmingham Bomb Kills 4 Negro Girls First World Trade Center Bombing America's Worst Harbor Explosion Occured in Texas City, Texas Bolivia Confirms Guevara's Deat Bolsheviki Seize State Buildings Britain and Germany Make Anti-War Pact Argentines Surrender Falkland Islands ``V for Victory'' campaign Kuwait is Liberated Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair CAPONE CONVICTED Carter Victor In Tight Race The Six-Day War CHARTER BECOMES 'LAW OF NATIONS International Declaration of Human Rights Konstantin U. Chernenko died at age 73. China Regains Control of Hong Kong China Tests Atomic Bomb "Iron Curtain" speech Civil Rights Act of 1964 Cassius Clay (Ali) Convicted 19th Amendment Legislation Revamping Telecomunications Industry Signed Saigon Falls to Communists National Security Act Gulf of Tonkin Resolution USS Indianapolis Torpedoed Czechoslovakia Invaded Dred Scott decision Defense Command Filled Princess Diana Dies Bank Robber John Dillinger Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier in Baseball Dow Jones Finishes Above 1,000 Transcontinental Railroad The Berlin Wall Edison's Electric Light Egypt/Israeli Peace Treaty Elizabeth II Crowned The King Dies Britian Goes to War With Germany Equal Rights Amendment Passed Nicholas II executed by the Bolsheviks EXPERIMENTS FOR HYDROGEN BOMB Final Vote Condemns M'Carthy Hiroshima First Prisoner Release Completed Flames Leap High Fliers At Seattle End World Flight of 27,000 Miles Ford Gives Pardon To Nixon Ford Is Approved By Senate French Capture 7,500 in Big Verdun Drive Germany Has France Sign Truce From Washington Abolition of Slavery Full 'Gas' Rationing Dec. 1 Gandhi Is Killed By A Hindu GANDHI, SLAIN GAS LEAK IN INDIA KILLS Ferraro Chosen to Be Mondale's Running Mate German Army Attacks Poland German Planes Raid London All Day John Glenn in Space Gold Standard Act Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader, Resigns Girl is Abducted America's first two-person space flight American Victory at Guadalcanal Union Victory! Lindbergh Baby Hawaii Becomes A State Helen Keller Dies Brown VS. Board of Education Miranda VS. Arizona High Court Rules Abortions High Court Rules Bus Segregation Civil War; the ironclads Monitor & VA (formerly Merrimac) at Hampton Roads, Va. Hindenburg Crash Hitler Recives Sole Executive Power D-Day Invasion Link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation Human Rights Declaration Dam Break in Johnstown Russia's February Revolution Hurricane Andrew The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began Impeachment of President Johnson India a Republic India and Pakistan Become Nations Independent India's First Prime Minister Dies Oklahoma Land Rush Iran Payment Found Diverted Japan Surrenders To Allies WW II Ends Japan Wars on U.S. and Britain; JETLINER CARRYING 258 TO U.S CRASHES LBJ Says No Thanks To Presidency Call for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote Joyful Kenya Kennedy and Nixon Clash Robert F.Kennedy Shot KENNEDY IS KILLED Kennedy's Victory Won By Close Margin Khrushchev Ousted From Top Posts Khrushchev Takes Over King George Dies Kon-Tiki Exxon Vessel Hits Reef, Fouling Water That Is Rich in Marine Life Preventing Polio Lawrence of Arabia dies Liberty's Great Statue The infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped First Solo Airplane Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean Rodney King Malcolm X is Shot Mandela is Named President Space Probe Flew By Mars Maris Hits 61st in Final Game Man Known as Mark Twain Dies acrthur Arrives in Austrailia King Jr. is Shot Martin Luther King Wins Neil Armstrong's Walk on the Moon Amelia Earhart Disappears Althea Gibson Wins Wimbledon Singles Match First Black Graduate of University of Mississippi Mrs. King Defeats Riggs U. S. Celebrates It's Bicentential Nautilus Negro Sitdowns Stir Fear Of Wider Unrest in South First President to Ride in an Automobile Rioting in L. A. "Kitchen Debate" Nixon Declares He Didn't Profit Nixon Discharges Cox For Defiance Nixon Leaves Fate To G.O.P. Chiefs Nixon Orders a Halt In Bombing Nixon Resigns Nixon Wins By A Thin Margin, Wounded Knee Funeral for Unidentified Vietnam Veteran Our Men In Drives On Guadalcanal OUR SUBWAY OPEN, 150,000 TRY IT Devastating San Francisco Earthquake Treaty of Versailles Peary And Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole Pentagon Papers Case Pablo Picasso dies POLAND RESTRICTS CIVIL AND UNION RIGHTS Motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers Vatican City Created Pope John Paul II Shot Blackout Power Failure in Apollo 13 Spies Exchanged President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany President Grave "Ich bin ein Berliner" 29th President Dies President Nixon Heads to China PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY Roosevelt dies, Truman Takes Over President Sees Marshall President Sends Troops to Little Rock, President Shot at Buffalo Fair Lend-Lease Bill Signed Roosevelt's "New Deal" Republican declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election President's Assassin Shot To Death Prohibition Repeal Is Ratified at 5:32 P.M. Accident At Nuclear Plant American Space Probe Ranger 7 Raegan's Visit to Germany Reagan Nominates Day O'Connor Reagan Takes Oath As 40th President Ronald Reagan Shot Realtions Between U. S. and Germany William Jennings Bryan's Speech Roosevelt Asks to Reform Courts First woman to serve in the Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. Roosevelt Sweeps The Nation ROOSEVELT, STALIN, CHURCHILL AGREE Ruined Berlin Afire After 2d Bombing First Spacewalk Nazi Forces Surrender Sacco and Vanzetti SADAT ASSASSINATED AT ARMY SAVANNAH OURS Scopes - Monkey Trial Scopes Trial Scott 150 Miles From South Pole Senates' Refusal to Ratify Treaty With Germany SHIP CARRYING 400 SEIZED Sirhan Sirhan Sentenced to Death Abandoned Skylab Returns To Earth U. S. And Soviet Union Sign WWII Pact Chernobyl Soviet Union Shoot Down American Plane Soviet Rocket Hits Moon After 35 Hours Supreme Soviet suspended all activities of the Communist Party Space Age began as the Soviet Union Spanish Civil War Spain declared war on the United States Spain's Parliament Approves Dissolution of Standard Oil Company STOCKS COLLAPSE IN 16,410,030-SHARE DAY Racial Desegregation Capture of James Earl Ray Son of Sam Teheran Students Seize U.S Embassy Poison Gas Unleashed in Subway Trains Nuclear Tests Banned Union Defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh Civil Rights March First Black Member of U. S. Senate THE GOLAN HEIGHTS ANNEXED Battle of Gettysburg The Heroes of July Jefferson Davis Becomes President of the Confederate States THE JORDAN-ISRAEL ACCORD Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians Battleship Maine Blown Up The President Dead THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION The Shuttle Explodes Germany Unconditionally Surrenders Woodstock Crash of the Titanic TRIBUTE TO VIETNAM DEAD Arthur Ashe Wins Wimbledon Troops Use Machine Gun on Boston Mob Korean War armistice The Truman Doctrine Truman Calls On Nation Truman Declares Hostilities Ended MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea. Air Force and Navy into the Korean War MacArthur Relived of his Duties Truman Doctorine Tunisian Resistance Ends Tut-ankh-Amen's Tomb Uncovered Two Germanys Unite Brooklyn Bridge Opens Battle on Iwo Jima U.N. Awaits Peking Delegates Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft Atlantis And Mir Dock Together Successfully U.S. DECLARES WAR Miracle on the Ice at Lake Placid U. S. Forces Leave Vietnam America's First Space Traveler U.S. NOW AT WAR WITH GERMANY AND ITALY U.S. TROOPS MOVE IN PANAMA UNITED STATES RECOGNIZES SOVIET Unidentified Vietnam Soldiers Buried UNO Bill Approved By Senate Mariner 2 space probe Vietnam Accord is Reached My Lai Massacre Viking 2 Lander Settles On Mars Spanish-American War Over Warren Commission Finds Oswald Guilty WARSAW OUTLAWS President Johnson Impeached McCarthy Senate Hearings Young Black Leader Dies in Detention British Rule in Palestine Came to End
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