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Date |
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| 1 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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| 2 | 1943 | - 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
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| 3 | 1945 | - 1945: First vaccine for influenza
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| 4 | 1945-1953 | - 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
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| 5 | 1948 | - 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
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| 6 | 1949 | - 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
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| 7 | 1950-1953 | |
| 8 | 1953-1961 | - 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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| 9 | 1955 | - 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
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| 10 | 1956 | - 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
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| 11 | 1960 | - 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
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| 12 | 1961-1963 | - 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
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| 13 | 1963-1969 | - 1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
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| 14 | 1964 | - 1964: First vaccine for measles
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| 15 | 1965-1975 | |
| 16 | 1967 | - 1967: First vaccine for mumps
- 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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| 17 | 1969-1974 | - 1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
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| 18 | 1973 | - 1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
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| 19 | 1974 | - 1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
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| 20 | 1974-1977 | - 1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.
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| 21 | 1977 | - 1977: First vaccine for pneumonia
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| 22 | 1977-1981 | - 1977-1981: James Earl Carter, Jr., serves as thirty-nineth president of the United States.
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| 23 | 1978 | - 1978: First vaccine for meningitis
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