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Khrushchev steps onto American ground; no Soviet leader had ever done it before

He heads straight to the White House to meet Eisenhower the same afternoon.

No leader of the Soviet Union had ever set foot in the United States. On September 15, 1959, Nikita Khrushchev landed at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and was driven to the White House to meet President Dwight Eisenhower that same day. The two-week trip that followed took Khrushchev to American farms and factories, but but it opened with a handshake between two men whose countries had spent the decade preparing for war with each other…

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Marines hit the seawall at Inchon; MacArthur's gamble is underway

Seventy-five thousand troops and 261 ships bet on a 29-foot tide the North Koreans thought made this coast unassailable.

A bomb tears through a Birmingham Sunday school; four girls are dead

The blast hit minutes after an anonymous caller warned the church secretary: three minutes.

Lehman Brothers collapses into bankruptcy; $600 billion in assets, no buyer, no rescue

A weekend of failed talks with Barclays and Bank of America ends with the largest corporate bankruptcy filing ever recorded.

The Poltava sails as part of a Soviet operation already four months underway to arm Cuba with nuclear missiles.

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Gaetjens heads it in; the US beats England, 1–0, in Belo Horizonte

Borghi shuts out the sport's reigning aristocracy; the American squad includes a hearse driver, a schoolteacher, and men who trained together exactly once.

Eisenhower signs the highway act; 41,000 miles of interstate and $25 billion set in motion

The president who crossed the country on rutted Army roads in 1919 authorizes the largest public works project the nation has yet attempted.

Blandy detonates the bomb over Bikini; the target fleet survives, and the Navy claims vindication

Test Able misses its aim point by 2,130 feet, scattering results that disappoint the Navy's critics but settle nothing about the weapon's power at sea.

Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act; King watches as a year's promise becomes law

The bill survived 72 days of Senate delay to pass 73 to 27, outlawing discrimination by race, sex, religion, and national origin in schools, workplaces, and public accommodations.

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