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  • Moscow, Russia
    Jun, 1955
    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Graduation

    Moscow, Russia
    Jun, 1955

    In June 1955, Gorbachev graduated school of law (Moscow State University) with a distinction his final paper had been on the advantages of "socialist democracy" (the Soviet political system) over "bourgeois democracy" (liberal democracy).




  • Cuba
    Sunday Jun 12, 1955
    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    26th of July Movement

    Cuba
    Sunday Jun 12, 1955

    The best known of these anti-Batista groups was the "26th of July Movement" (MR-26-7), founded by a lawyer named Fidel Castro. With Castro as the MR-26-7's head, the organization was based upon a clandestine cell system, with each cell containing ten members, none of whom knew the whereabouts or activities of the other cells.




  • Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 19, 1955
    Martin Luther King

    Doctoral Studies

    Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 19, 1955

    King began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Ph.D. degree on June 5, 1955




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