the great timeline

By susana7

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

  • Televised Debate

    Televised Debate
    The first televised debate was between Senator John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

  • Birth Control

    Birth Control
    FDA approves the first birth control pill

  • America's First Spaceflight

    America's First Spaceflight
    Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first American in space, he flies above Earth for 14.8 minutes.

  • Tests

    Tests
    U.S. starts underground nuclear testing.

  • Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe
    Marilyn Monroe was founf dead, doctors think it was from an overdose.

  • Cuba missile crisis

    Cuba missile crisis
    The soviet union gives cuba missiles but U.S stops them from going to cuba.

  • M.L.K

    M.L.K
    Martin Luther King made a speech about his desire for a future where black and whites, among others would coexist as equals

  • Jhon F. Kennedy assassination

    Jhon F. Kennedy assassination
    president Jhon F. Kennedy was assassinated on this date by a gunman, he was shot in the throat and the head

  • Poverty

    Poverty
    Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty"

  • The Beatles

    The Beatles
    The Beatles arrived in the United States in New York to perform their first concert

  • Astrodome

    Astrodome
    The Reliant Astrodome was first buiilt in Houston, its a domed sports stadium

  • Antiwar

    Antiwar
    10,000 people showed up in Washington D.C showed up prostesting agaisnt antiwar

  • Signing the Treaty

    Signing the Treaty
    US, USSR, and UK sign treaty to stop the use of neuclear weapons in outter space.

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    It was the first spacecraft to land on the moon with astronauts aboard.