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1951 Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government after six years in power.

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1952:  Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom

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1953 President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.

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1954: The world's first atomic power station opens at Obninsk, near Moscow.

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1955 The Vietnam War begins between the South Vietnam Army and the North Vietnam Army in which the latter is allied with the Viet Cong.

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United States presidential election, 1956: Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat challenger Adlai E. Stevenson in a rematch of their contest 4 years earlier.

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1957 United States Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) sets the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill.

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1958:  Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII as the 261st pope.

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1959 NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first U.S. astronauts (later known as the Mercury Seven).

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United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve at the President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.

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1961 Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587 km/h flying a X-15.

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1962: The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.

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1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.

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United States presidential election, 1964: Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.

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1965 Gemini 3: NASA launches the United States' first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom, John Young) into Earth orbit.