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American women win the vote
Apartheid ends in South Africa:
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs --
Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft Corp.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Congress passes 'GI Bill of Rights' to help veterans
Deadly AIDS disease identified
Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine proven effective in University of Pittsburgh tests
First jet airplane takes flight
Germany surrenders: V.E. Day celebrated
Henry Ford organizes the first major U.S. assembly line to produce Model T cars
Hitler launches 'Kristallnacht,' ordering Nazis to commit acts of violence against German Jews
Israel achieves statehood
Mao Tse-tung establishes Peoples Republic of China: Nationalists flee to Formosa (Taiwan)
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet Premier:
Panama Canal opens,
Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' stimulates environmental protection movement
Scientists at Bell Labs invent the transistor
U.S.S.R dissolves,
United Nations is officially established
Soviets launch Sputnik, first space satellite:
United States withdraws last ground troops from Vietnam
Violence erupts at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
White House sex scandal leads to
Worldwide Spanish flu epidemic kills 20 million
