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After their race at the 1968 Summer Olympics, US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos accepted their respective gold and silver medals, raised their black-gloved right fists, and hung their heads as the US national anthem played.
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In May 1960, American pilot Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a U-2 spy plane creating the U-2 Incident.
President Bill Clinton of Arkansas served two terms beginning in 1992 and ending in 2000…
US speed skater Apolo Ohno became a sports icon in the early 2000s by medaling in the Winter Olympic games…
US President Gerald Ford became the first person to serve in that office without being elected President or Vice President…
In 1991, Operation Desert Storm began as a US-led coalition of several countries attacked Saddam Hussein’s Iraq…
US Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was found guilty of accepting bribes connected to the Teapot Dome Scandal during the 1920s…
