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Timeline: Uur World 1957 First Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 264 - Closi Q passed by Congress: Commission on Civil Rights and Civil Rights Division in Department of Justice established. Little Rock integration crisis: Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas calls in National Guard to stop court-ordered integration of schools. President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to protect Negro rights. U.S. atomic submarine Nautilis finds fabled Northwest Passage, travels under Arctic ice. Hurricane Audrey hits Gulf Coast from Texas to Alabama. Residents of Cameron, La., fail to heed storm warnings, and 390 persons die. .Russia launches first space satellite, Sputnik I. First U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched at Cape Canaveral. Gates close and water begins to collect behind Wesley Scale Dam. U.S. becomes nation of 50 states, as Alaska annexed January 3, Hawaii August 21. Nikita Khrushchev, U.S.S.R premier, visits United States. Corpus Chrisi Harbor Bridge opens, and Overhaul and Repair facility at NAS closes, leaving 3,000 Corpus Christians unemployed. Fidel Castro controls Cuba. Corpus Christi International Airport opens. John F. Kennedy elected president, Texan Lyndon B. Johnson vice president. President Kennedy forms the Peace Corps. Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, becomes the first human to travel in space, orbiting the earth in 1 hour, 48 minutes. Astronaut Alan Shepard is the first American in space. Anti-Castro invasion of Cuba, planned by the United States, fails at the Bay of Pigs. President Kennedy accepts the blame. Berlin Wall built between East and West Berlin. Hurricane Carla hits Corpus Christi. ARADMAC, an Army helicopter repair facility, opens at NAS. Soviet Union puts missiles into Cuba. President Kennedy demands their removal, and Cuban Missile Crisis results. Missiles are withdrawn. Supreme Court rules recitation of official school prayer unconstitutional. President Kennedy signs bill establishing Padre Island National Seashore. Britain, U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign treaty barring atmospheric nuclear testing. Civil rights demonstrations begin in Birmingham, Ala. Martin Luther King arrested along with other leaders as demonstrations spread. President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas on November 22. Lyndon Johnson becomes president. Two days later alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot to death in Dallas police building. :see .,w,.,.,.. -. ff-- ,:,.,.,...cr.. - - ,U I -S-1' . .. - f 1. . ,,,. H as is ,a f f ,asf ,,,..,.M.-sv , - .1-jfs - Q.. .v i-5,15 A - - ., ,fa-vv+ '1' . . . M I 1. .. ' H f 2 .. re I t, c A.. . 5-I ,. ., ......,, . - :fft': - is ' J Inf. 1.zv ...,.5., ' 'il . V .. --. ..:.- -wi 1l.....ll 11121113 Il:
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