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Kennedy Inagurated
JFK beame the 35th president of the united states
winning by only 115,000 votes -
Khrushchev and Kennedy
Khrushchev presented kennedy with a "memorandom" it contained a proposal for the conversion of West-Berlin into a neutral city and demands the peace treaty. -
First American in space
Alan sheppard was the first American out of the seven original astronauts to go into space, in a spacecraft called "freedom 7" -
Prayer Banned
prayer was removed from public schooling, ruled 7 to 1 that it was unconstitutional -
James Meredith
James Meredith became the first black student at The University of Mississippi, His attending there, sparked riots on the Oxford campus, which required federal troops and U.S. Marshals -
Nuclear test ban treaty
prohibited all testings of nuclear devices
unless undergroumd, trying to eliminate "excess release of nuclear fallout" into the atmosphere -
Kennedy Killed
Kennedy Shot and killed in Dallas Tx, -
Beatles
the Beatles were already popular in american but this was the first time they actually came here and performed -
MLK
Youngest man to recive the nobel peace prize at age 35, turning the award money over to the civil rights movement -
Watts riot LA
a Los Angeles police officer stopped Marquette Frye, he was suspected of being intoxicated. When a crowd of onlookers began to bother the police, a second officer was called in. the second officer struck crowd members with his baton, and news of the act of police attackers soon spread throughout the neighborhood. -
Miranda v. Arizona
The decision reversed an Arizona court's conviction of Ernesto Miranda on kidnapping and rape charges. found in a police lineup, Miranda had been questioned, confessed, and signed a written statement without being told that he had a right to a lawyer; this confession was used against him at trial. -
War protest held
Anti-war demonstrations in New York and San Francisco involving nearly 200,000. -
MLK Assainated
Shot and killed on his motel balcony, died at the age of 39 -
Another Kennedy Killed
Robert kennedy was assasinated by
Sirhan Sirhan in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Cali. All three television networks began coverage at the scene just minutes after the shooting. -
Nixon wins Election
This election was a close call only 25,552 votes separated the two top runners -
Moon Landing
Apollo 11 had a mission of sending two men to space letting them step foot on the moon then returning them home safetly,
it was a success and something man will never forget
