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5101
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1st jet passenger trip made
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5102
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Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
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5103
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Communist troops driven out of Seoul
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5104
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Pres Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
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5105
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UN moves HQ to NYC
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5106
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De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
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5107
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King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem
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5108
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David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
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5109
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Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
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5110
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Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
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5111
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Winston Churchill re-elected British premier
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5112
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Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
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5201
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University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
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5202
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Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb |
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5203
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Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
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5204
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Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
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5205
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Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
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5206
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Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
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5207
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Last tram ride in London
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5208
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Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
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5209
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Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
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5210
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Emergency crisis proclaimed in Kenya
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5211
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Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap," premieres in London
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5212
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worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
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5301
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John Foster Dulles app Sec. of State
Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia |
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5302
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Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA
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5303
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Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
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5304
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royal yacht Britannica taken out of service
Viet-Minh offensive in Laos |
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5305
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Edmund Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
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5306
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Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested
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5307
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North Korea & UN sign armistice
Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," |
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5308
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Shah of Persia returns to Teheran
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5309
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Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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5310
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Laos gains full independence from France
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5311
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Cambodia becomes independent from France
Pakistan becomes islamic republic French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu |
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5312
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Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired |
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5401
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Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way Milt rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested |
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5402
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Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam Snow falls on Gibraltar |
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5403
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Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
the London bullion market reopens |
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5404
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1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
Bill Haley & Comets records "Rock Around Clock |
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5405
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Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile
European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect |
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5406
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1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia
France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union |
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5407
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Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North & South
The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin |
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5408
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Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh
Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism |
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5409
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SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communist spread in SE Asia
Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy |
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5410
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British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs |
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5411
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Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria General Fulgencio Batista elected pres of Cuba |
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5412
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The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
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5006
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North Korea invades the south
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5501
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Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
Russia ends state of war with Germany |
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5502
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British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam |
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5503
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British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece |
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5504
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EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus
Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely |
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5505
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West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike |
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5506
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Le Mans race car accident kills 83 spectators (race continues
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5507
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Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
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5508
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"Guinness Book of World Records" 1st published
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5509
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(ITV) Commercial TV begins in England
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5510
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Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
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5511
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1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D M Campbell)
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5512
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Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
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5601
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Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt & UK |
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5602
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Britain abolishes death penalty
Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference |
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5603
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Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
Tunisia gains independence from France |
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5604
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French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain |
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5605
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Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
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5606
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John Lennon (15) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
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5607
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Egypt seizes Suez Canal
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5608
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British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog" 'Don't be cruel' |
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5609
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1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee |
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5610
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Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal |
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5611
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Britain & France land forces in Egypt
Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D) Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in NYC |
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5612
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England & France pull troops out of Egypt
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5701
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An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.
Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election India annexes Kashmir |
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5702
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Suez Canal reopens
Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day |
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5703
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Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions Earthquake gives SF shakes |
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5704
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Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in US is temp halted
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5705
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French government of Mollet resigns
Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
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5706
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Anthony Eden resigns as British PM
Harold MacMillan becomes British PM NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes |
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5707
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1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
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5708
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British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea |
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5709
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Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel
Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising "Wagon Train" premieres Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools |
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5710
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First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency
B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin The Windscale fire in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident |
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5711
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USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested |
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5712
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Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia
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