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Date |
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| 1 | 1949 | - 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
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| 2 | 1950-1953 | |
| 3 | 1953-1961 | - 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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| 4 | 1955 | - 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
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| 5 | 1956 | - 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
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| 6 | 1960 | - 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
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| 7 | 1961-1963 | - 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
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| 8 | 1963-1969 | - 1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
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| 9 | 1964 | - 1964: First vaccine for measles
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| 10 | 1965-1975 | |
| 11 | 1967 | - 1967: First vaccine for mumps
- 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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1949 - 1969 (20 years)