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New York Worlds Fair

New York
· 1939 - 1940 1964 - 1965
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Heads of state who visited the New York Worlds Fair in 1939-1940 were Herbert C. Hoover of the USA, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the USA, George VI of Great Britain, and Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. Heads of state who visited in 1964-1965 were Herbert C. Hoover of the USA, Harry S. Truman of the USA, Dwight D. Eisenhower of the USA, John F. Kennedy of the USA, Lyndon B. Johnson of the USA, Carlos Julio Arosemena of Equador, Romulo Bentacourt of Venezuela, Hussein I of Jordan, Diosdado Macapagal of the Philippines, Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Palden Thondup Namgyal of Sikkim, Sylvanus Olympio of Togo, Francisco J. Orlich of Costa Rica, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran, Chung Hee Park of South Korea, Pope Paul VI of Vatican City, Sukarno of Indonesia, Philibert Tsiranana of Malagasy, and Eamon de Valera of Eire.
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