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• Nixon resigns
  Aug 9, 1974

  In light of his loss of political support and the near certainty of impeachment, Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening.[

• Watergate breakin
  Jun 17, 1972

  The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.

• Woodstock
  Aug 15, 1969 to Aug 18, 1969

  Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.

• Beatles to America
  Feb 15, 1964

  When The Beatles left the United Kingdom on 7 February 1964, an estimated four thousand fans gathered at Heathrow, waving and screaming as the aircraft took off.[70] "I Want to Hold Your Hand" had sold 2.6 million copies in the US over the previous two weeks, but the group were still nervous about how they would be received.

• Martin Luther King speech
  Aug 28, 1963

  "I Have a Dream" is a seventeen-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination.

• Building of Berlin Wall
  Aug 15, 1961

  With the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961, along the intracity frontier, Potsdamer Platz now found itself physically divided in two. What had once been a busy intersection had become totally desolate. With the clearance of most of the remaining bomb-damaged buildings on both sides (on the eastern side, this was done chiefly to give border guards a clear view of would-be escapees and an uninterrupted line of fire), little was left in an area of dozens of hectares.

• Sputnik
  Oct 15, 1957

  which is translated as 'companion' or 'satellite') is the commonly known name of a group of various robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union

• Interstate Highway Building Act
  1956

  The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Also known as Federal Highway Act of 1956), authorized the building of highways throughout the nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the nation's history.

• Vietnam War
  Nov 15, 1955

  The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

• Brown v. Board of Education
  1954

  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954),was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

• Korean War
  Jul 1, 1950

  The Korean War (1950–1953 (Armistice))[28] was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war began on 25 June 1950 and an armistice was signed on 27 July 1953. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II.

• Baby Boomer Years
  Jul 1, 1946

  The term Baby-Boom Generation refers to those born during the post–World War II demographic boom in births.