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| 1 | 1940 | - 1940: United States population — 131,669,275.
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| 2 | 1941 | - 24 Nov 1941: The United States Supreme Court invalidates the California "Anti-Okie" statute that made it a misdemeanor to bring an indigent non-resident into California. [The statute was primarily targeted against Dust Bowl migrants.]
- 7 Dec 1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II.
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| 3 | 1944 | - 6 Jun 1944: The Allies launch the Normandy Invasion in France to begin the end of World War II.
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| 4 | 1945 | - 12 Apr 1945: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, Meriwether County, Georgia at age 63.
- 8 May 1945: VE Day is proclaimed.
- 6 Aug 1945: An atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
- 9 Aug 1945: An atom bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 2 Sep 1945: VJ Day is proclaimed as the Japanese formally surrender to General Douglas MacArthur on board The Missouri.
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| 5 | 1950 | - 1950: United States population — 150,697,361.
- 1 Jul 1950: United States military forces land in Korea.
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| 6 | 1951 | - 19 Apr 1951: General Douglas MacArthur gives his Old Soldiers Never Die speech to Congress at age 71.
- 21 Jun 1951: CBS makes the first color telecast.
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| 7 | 1953 | - 25 Jul 1953: Armistice is signed in Korea.
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| 8 | 1956 | - 25 Sep 1956: The first transatlantic telephone cable begins operation.
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| 9 | 1957 | - 4 Oct 1957: Russia launches Sputnik 1 into outer space.
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| 10 | 1960 | - 1960: United States population — 179,323,175.
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| 11 | 1962 | - 20 Feb 1962: John H. Glenn, Jr. becomes the first American astronaut to orbit the earth at age 40.
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| 12 | 1963 | - 22 Nov 1963: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas at age 46.
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| 13 | 1969 | - 20 Jul 1969: Neal Armstrong takes "one small step for [a] man," becoming the first person to walk on the Moon at almost age 39.
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| 14 | 1970 | - 1970: United States population — 203,302,031.
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| 15 | 1976 | - 20 Jul 1976: Viking I becomes the first spacecraft to make a controlled landing on Mars.
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| 16 | 1980 | - 1980: United States population – 226,545,805.
- 4 Nov 1980: Ronald Reagan is elected to his first term as President of the United States at age 69.
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| 17 | 1986 | - 19 Oct 1986: The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 508 points.
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| 18 | 1988 | - 14 Dec 1988: The first transatlantic fiber-optic cable begins operation.
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| 19 | 1990 | - 1990: United States population – 248,709,873.
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| 20 | 2000 | - 2000: United States population – 281,421,906.
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| 21 | 2001 | - 11 Sep 2001: Al Qaeda terrorists hijack 3 American commercial airplanes and crash them into the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City, New York County, New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The terrorist hijackers of a 4th commercial airplane are thwarted by the passengers, and the airplane crashes in a field near Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. At the end of the day, more than 3,000 people have been killed.
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1940 - 2023 (82 years)