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A music festival held at Max Yasgur's farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York
The 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper
The trial and conviction of boxer Rubin Carter
The death of Marilyn Monroe
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
The sinking during a storm of a bulk carrier on Lake Superior, November 10, 1975
The last days of the American Civil War
The 1972 massacre of civil rights protesters in Derry, Ireland
Civil unrest resulting from the acquittal of Los Angeles Police Officers in the beating of Rodney King
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
The Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970
The decline of rail travel in the United States
The Iraq War and No Child Left Behind Act
The drawing of the Mason-Dixon Line, which since the 1820s denotes the border between the Southern United States and the Northern United States.
Brenda Spencer's shooting of individuals at the Cleveland Elementary School on January 29, 1979, in San Diego, California
The fall of Communist regimes in Europe
The murder of an Archduke by a Serbian rebel leader which led to World War I
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The attack by two assailants of CBS News Anchor Dan Rather
The creation of the first atomic bomb.
The riots and trial of defendants surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention
The life and research of marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the 1918 massacre of the Romanov family
The transportation of slaves across the Atlantic
The murder of a barmaid for not serving a drink quickly enough
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