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| Time flys when you're having fun. This idiom easily applies to the time span between 1962 and 1973. American Graffiti takes place in 1962, (the year George Lucas graduated from high school). The film was shot a decade later and released during the late summer of 1973. |
| October: U.S. Defense Department discloses that 46 American soldiers have been killed in Vietnam. |
| March 29: After the death of more than 58,000 Americans and another 75,000 severely wounded in combat, the last American troops withdraw from Vietnam. An additional 9,000 veterans took their own life within the first 5 years of returning to the U.S |
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| February 20: John H. Glen, Jr. becomes the first American to orbit the earth. |
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| America's first space station, Skylab is launched. |
| August-November: Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. USSR attempts to build missile bases in Cuba. President Kennedy orders a military blockade and prevents Russian ships from reaching Cuba. |
| June 16-25: Russian leader Brezhnev visits U.S. paving the way for better Soviet-U.S. relations. A year later, President Nixon and Brezhnev sign an agreement curbing nuclear weapons testing. |
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| Sept 19: Joint Chief Chairman, General Maxwell returning from a trip to South Vietnam tells reporters in Manila, "The Vietnamese are on the road to victory." |
| Omega Psi Phi becomes the first black fraternity chartered at University of Mississippi aka Ole Miss. |
| September 30: U.S. Marshals escort James Merideth, University of Mississippi's first black student, onto campus after Governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the doorway to the registrar's office attempting to prevent the student from registering for classes. |
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| In the summer of 1962 President Kennedy asked Secret Service Agent Robert Bouck to conceal recording devices in the Cabinet Room, the Oval Office, and a study/library in the Mansion. |
| July 13, Presidential minion Alexander Butterfield revealed President Nixon had a secret taping system installed in the White House, which recorded every conversation held in the Oval Office. |
| Sept. 12th. President Kennedy gives famous "Moon Speech" vowing to send man to the moon. |
| Nixon makes his famous "I'm Not a Crook" speech declaring his innocence in the Watergate scandal. |
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| May 17: U.S. Senate opens hearings on White House involvement in the break-in of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. by members of the Richard Nixon administration. The resulting cover-up would lead to the resignation of the President. |
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| March 20: Sixty senators go to the movies. They traveled to Washington's Trans-Lux Theater for a sneak preview of Otto Preminger's "Advise and Consent." |
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| October 10: Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns after being investigated for taking kickbacks when he was governor of Maryland. President Nixon replaces him with Gerald Ford who would become president the following year. |
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| TIME FLYS |
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