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Elvis Presley is discharged from the Military.
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Marilyn Monroe receives Golden Globe for Best Actress in “Some Like It Hot.”
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Wilt Chamberlain won NBA’s Most Valuable Player, NBA All-Star Game MVP, NBA Rookie of The Year, and the NBA Scoring Champion.
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Elvis releases his GI Blues soundtrack and sets a new record for album sales.
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Bob Dylan moves to New York in hope to meet his idol Woody Guthrie and he starts performing in Greenwich Villages.
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Aretha Louise Franklin’s song Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody hit #31 on the pop charts.
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Marilyn’s movie, "The Misfits", premiered.
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Elvis performs 2 shows at Ellis Auditorium to benefit 38 Memphis-Area charities.
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Elvis goes to Hawaii to play a benefit concert at Bloch Arena for the building of the USS Arizona Memorial.
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Wilt Chamberlain was the NBA Scoring Champion for the second time.
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Elvis releases his Blue Hawaii soundtrack.
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Marilyn Monroe won a Golden Globe award for World Film Favorite.
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Bob Dylan releases his first album “Bob Dylan.”
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Wilt Chamberlain was the NBA Scoring Champion for the third time.
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Marilyn Monroe appeared on Life Magazine for the last time.
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Marilyn Monroe died in her home.
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Arthur Ashe makes his debut on the US Davis Cup team.
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Bob Dylan releases his second album called “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.”
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Wilt Chamberlain was the NBA Scoring Champion for the fourth time.
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Louis Armstrong recorded a demo of Hello Dolly!
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Armstrong’s song Hello Dolly! opened a stage show in New York.
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Armstrong’s recorded demo of Hello Dolly! reached #1 on the US Billboard Top 100. It ended The Beatles streak of 3 No. 1 hits in a row over 14 consecutive weeks.
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Elvis’ movie Viva Las Vegas is released.
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Wilt Chamberlain was the NBA Scoring Champion for the fifth time.
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Armstrong had a gold-selling album for the album Hello Dolly!.
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Arthur Ashe wins the NCAA singles crown as a junior at UCLA, becoming the first African-American to win that title.
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Bob Dylan releases an album called Bringing It All Back Home.
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Hello Dolly! won the Grammy for Song of the Year.
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Bob Dylan’s song Like A Rolling Stone goes to No. 2 on the US charts.
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Wilt Chamberlain was the NBA Scoring Champion for the sixth time.
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Bob Dylan is booed at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar.
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Bob Dylan released an album named Highway 61 Revisited.
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Wilt Chamberlain won NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the second time and NBA Scoring Champion for the seventh time.
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Arthur Ashe graduates from UCLA.
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Wilt Chamberlain won the NBA Championship and NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the third time.
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Armstrong recorded the song What a Wonderful World.
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Bob Dylan releases an album named John Wesley Harding.
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Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World hit No. 1 in the UK and stayed there for 4 weeks.
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Aretha Franklin was enlisted to perform at the funeral of MLK.
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Elvis airs on NBC.
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Wilt Chamberlain won NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the fourth time and NBA assist leader.
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Arthur Ashe won the US open but couldn’t accept the prize money because he was an ametuer.
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Armstrong’s What A Wonderful World became the top-selling UK single.
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Arthur Ashe and his friends founded the National Junior Tennis League.
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Armstrong was featured in the movie Hello, Dolly!, which included his song Hello Dolly! in it.
