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Sputnik
The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite. -
Affluent Society
Published by Harvard economist and public intellectual John Galbraith The Affluent Society examined America's new post WWII consumer economy and political culture. -
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JFK elected as President
President John F. Kennedy also referred to JFK was the youngest and only U.S. President to receive the Purple Heart. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Perhaps the biggest failure of the United States in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. The United States government planned an invasion that ended with decreased trust in the U.S. government and killed all Cuban American relations. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, when then U.S. Intelligence discovered evidence of general soviet arms build up in Cuba. -
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Lyndon B Johnson Elected as President
President Lyndon B. Johnson also referred to as LBJ took office after the assassination of JFK and championed programs such as Medicare, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. -
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Considered to be among the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in American history. The comprehensive act barred segregation in public accommodations and outlawed discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, national or religious origin. -
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Richard Nixon Elected as President
Remembered as the only President ever to resign from office after his involvement in the Watergate scandal. -
Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge John Sirica
The Nixon White House tapes are audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President. The tapes' existence came to light during the Watergate scandal of 1973 and 1974, when the. District Court Judge John Sirica to subpoena nine relevant tapes to confirm the testimony of White House Counsel John Dean. -
Microsoft
Paul Allen and Bill Gates were childhood friends from Seattle when they started Microsoft in 1975. Allen was working at Honeywell, Inc. and Gates was doing pre-law at Harvard University.
Their idea was to produce an interpreter for the microcomputer Altair 8800 using BASIC programming language. When Gates and Allen sold their interpreter to MITS who distributed it, Microsoft, then known as Micro-Soft, was born.