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Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag planted on the lunar surface.
The date made history on July 20, 1969. Millions around the world heard Neil Armstrong say:
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
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Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr salutes his father's casket in Washington three days after the president was assassinated in Dallas
on Nov. 22, 1963. Widow Jacqueline Kennedy and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the president's brothers Edward and Robert
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Martin Luther King (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) directed the march on Washington, DC of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his "l Have a Dream"
speech. He conferred with President Kennedy and campaigned for President Johnson.
King was awarded 5 honorary degrees. Named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963
Became a symbolic leader of American blacks and a world figure. August 28, the anniversary of Dr. King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech, is called "Dream Day."
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1962 Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird won a Pulitzer. The book and movie have since become standard classroom text. The film won
Gregory Peck an Oscar for his role as Atticus Finch, a lawyer squaring off against a Southern town's bigotry. But it is the tender relationship
between the tomboy Scout and the ghostly Boo Radley that is the heart-warming story behind the mystery. Robert Duvall got his breakthrough as the loner, in gratitude,
he named his dogs Boo and Radley 
