Forrest Gump

  • Bear Briant (Football Player)

    Bear Briant (Football Player)
    Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the head coach of the University of Alabama football team.
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    The Vietnam War

    The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States. ... Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina.
  • Elvis

    Elvis
    Musician and actor Elvis Presley rose to fame in the mid-1950s—on the radio, TV and the silver screen—and continues to be one of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll.
  • University of Alabama desegregated

    University of Alabama desegregated
    Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll.
  • Kennedy

    Kennedy
    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
  • JFK assassination

    JFK assassination
    John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza.
  • The hippie culture

    The hippie culture
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    Hippie. Hippie, also spelled hippy, member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain.
  • Robert Kennedy is killed

    Robert Kennedy is killed
    Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Senator for New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.
  • First US Moon landing

    First US Moon landing
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    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC.
  • John Lennon on the Dick Cavett Show

    John Lennon on the Dick Cavett Show
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    Richard Nixon visits China

    U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China (officially the People's Republic of China or PRC) was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China.
  • George Wallace is shot

    George Wallace is shot
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    For the next four months, Wallace's campaign proceeded extremely well. However, it came to an abrupt halt on May 15, 1972, when he was shot five times by Arthur Bremer while campaigning at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland, at a time when he was receiving high ratings in national opinion polls.