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Oslo names King, 35, the Nobel Peace laureate for nonviolent struggle

The Norwegian Nobel Committee cites his campaign against segregation, making him the youngest man yet to win the prize.

Three months after Congress outlawed segregation in public accommodations, the Nobel Committee recognized the civil rights leader who had championed the law's passage. On October 14, 1964, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Martin Luther King Jr. had won the Nobel Peace Prize for "his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population." At 35, he became the youngest person yet to receive it. The formal ceremony in Oslo was still two months away…

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Sixty B-17s go down over Schweinfurt; the Eighth Air Force loses the sky over Germany

Of 291 Flying Fortresses sent to hit the ball bearing works, 650 airmen did not come home.

Congress declares Parliament's acts void; delegates demand the king repeal them

Twelve colonies agree on a list of rights Parliament has no power to touch.

A U-2 camera finds Soviet missiles ninety miles from Florida

The film still has to be developed and read before Washington even knows what it has.

The Air Force kept it secret for nearly eight months while the X-1 sat under a tarp named for his wife.

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Tehran mobs and army units seize the capital; Mosaddegh is under arrest by nightfall

A forged royal decree and CIA cash turned the streets against the prime minister who nationalized Iran's oil.

Washington expels the Soviet consul who wouldn't produce Oksana Kasenkina

Eight days after she jumped from his consulate's third-floor window, Jacob Lomakin is handed his passport home.

Eisenhower signs the proclamation: Hawaii is now the 50th state

The order follows a territorial vote in which 94 percent said yes to joining the Union.

Marine Corps' first Black Medal of Honor recipient is honored in Washington

Eighteen months after he smothered a grenade to save his platoon, James Anderson Jr.'s parents accept the medal in his place.

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