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bobbieinok

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3. And then...and then...

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 4, 2017, 09:26 PM

Oct 2017

* August 13, 1961, Russia put up the Berlin Wall

* September 1962 monster riot over integration of U of MS

* October 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis

* Spring 1963 Medgar Evers assassinated in MS

* Summer 1963 JFK 'ich bin ein Berliner' speech in Berlin

* August 1963 MLK 'I have a dream' speech

* September 15, 1963 Birmingham Church blown up, 4 black girls killed

* November 23, 1963 JFK assassinated in Dallas

* Summer 1964 'MS Summer', Cheney, Schwerner, Goodman killed

* Fall 1964 ramping up Vietnam involvement/War, college teachins started

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Sputnik 1 .10/4/57..Changed the world,.. computer development rapidly advanced [View all] Stuart G Oct 2017 OP

I remember. Was senior in HS bobbieinok Oct 2017 #1

Thank You for pointing out "Little Rock", yes, a " new era in both US and world history" nt Stuart G Oct 2017 #2

And then...and then... bobbieinok Oct 2017 #3

I think the NACA was already pushing computer advances hard before Sputnik DavidDvorkin Oct 2017 #4

I was in ninth grade, yortsed snacilbuper Oct 2017 #5