Mid+20th+Milestone+Events+g6


 * =**1958 - Beatnik Movement Spreads**=
 * =**1961 - Yuri Gagarin (USSR) orbits the earth**=
 * =**1964 - Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Nobel Peace Prize**=
 * =**1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson elected President**=
 * =**1967 - Newark -- Detroit riots**=
 * =**1970 - Kent State and Jackson State killings**=
 * =**1971 - Attica prison riots**=
 * =**1978 - Panama Canal Treaty**=
 * =**1980 - Mount St. Helen's erupts**=
 * =**1985 - Achille Lauro hijacked**=