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Date |
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| 1 | 1955 | - 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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| 2 | 1962 | - 1962: Perth gets the name 'City of Light' as John Glenn passed over the city in his Mercury spacecraft.
- 5 Aug 1962: Marilyn Monroe was found naked, dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death.
- Oct 1962: The Cuban missile crisis.
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| 3 | 1963 | - 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His 'I Have a Dream' Speech
- 22 Nov 1963: The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST
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| 4 | 1964 | - 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
- 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
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1962 - 1964 (2 years)