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... that The Beatles (pictured) had 17 number-one singles during the 1960s in the United Kingdom?
... that The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?
... that long-haired males were persecuted by the Czechoslovak communist regime in the 1960s and '70s?

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... that Jacqueline Kennedy wore her pink Chanel suit (pictured) at the inauguration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, even though it was stained with her husband's blood?
... that the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's has been called "perhaps the most famous little black dress of all time"?
... that Bo Schembechler praised Pete Newell for traveling to Iowa with the 1969 Michigan football team rather than to a large antiwar rally "with the damn hippies where he really wanted to be"?

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... that paper clothing (dress pictured) was briefly very popular in the 1960s?
... that the Nikolaj gained prominence after the Fluxus performances of the 1960s?
... that Martin Luther King's speech at the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, a non-violent demonstration in Washington, DC, established him as a national leader for the Civil Rights movement?

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... that several thousand people lived on Washington's National Mall (pictured) for six weeks in 1968 as part of the Poor People's Campaign?
...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
... that The New York Times credited the success of promoter Gary Kurfirst's 1968 New York Rock Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Doors as inspiring the 1969 Woodstock Festival?

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