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1960 World Series was played between the Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) and New York Yankees (AL). It is most notable for the Game 7, 9th-inning home run hit by Bill Mazeroski, winning the game for the...
February 1-4, 1960, the first "sit in" by black college students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. May 5, 1961, Soviets sends the first man into space. February...