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When Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash were invited to the White House in April what he expected was an evening of light entertainment from the icon of country music. And he…

By the time a measles vaccine was developed in the 1960s, the disease had been around and documented for over a thousand years. One of the first cases was reported by a Persian doctor…

Huge strides were made in heart surgery during the 1960s. The first successful human-to-human heart transplant was performed on December 3rd, 1967. A team of South African surgeons, led by Dr. Christian Barnard, transplanted…

Perhaps you don’t remember leaving work early or foregoing a meal during your lunch break in order to run down and stand in line at the bank to make a deposit or get out…

Stephanie Kwolek, the daughter of two Polish immi-grants, was a chemist working for the DuPont corpo-ration in 1965 when she discovered a stronger-than-steel compound that would prove to be the strongest, stiffest fiber known….