The Beatles arrive at New York's JFK airport on February 7, 1964.

1961 Disney lunch box. (Credit: The Smithsonian Institute National Museum of American History)

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The 1970s was an era when the women's rights, gay rights and environmental movements gained momentum. The Vietnam War came to a close, the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, the United States ended direct involvement in the Vietnam War and President Jimmy Carter grappled with an energy crisis, inflation and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

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The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. The era was marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, countercultural movements, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap."

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During the 1980s, conservative politics and Reaganomics held sway as the Berlin Wall crumbled, new computer technologies emerged, AIDS ravaged the United States, especially the gay male community, and blockbuster movies and MTV reshaped pop culture.

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John Lennon writes and records “Instant Karma” in a single day

A New York judge reverses John Lennon’s deportation order

Paul McCartney knighted

John Lennon shot

The Beatles arrive in New York

The Beatles kick off first U.S. tour at San Francisco’s Cow Palace