1960

1960-1969

  • •Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City

    •Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
    •First Televised Presidential Debates
    •Lasers Invented
    •Lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NC
  • •Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile

    •Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
    •Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
    •The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
    •Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth
  • •Bay of Pigs Invasion

    •Bay of Pigs Invasion
    Berlin wall was built to divide east and west germany
  • peace corps founded

    peace corps founded
    •Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
  • JFK speech about man on moon

    JFK speech about man on moon
    •Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded
  • •Cuban Missile Crisis

    •Cuban Missile Crisis
    Cubans test the americans with the missile crisis . JFK does not back down,
  • •Famous Escape From Alcatraz

    •Famous Escape From Alcatraz
    •First James Bond Movie
    •First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
    •First Wal-Mart Opens
  • SPACE?????????????

    SPACE?????????????
    •First Woman in Space
  • JFK is dead

    JFK is dead
    •Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
    •Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
    •Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued
  • interesting?

    interesting?
    •"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
    •JFK Assassinated
    •March on Washington
    •Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
    •Medgar Evers Is Murdered
  • •Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.

    •Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
    The beatles become popular in the United states
  • Malcolm X Killed?

    Malcolm X Killed?
    •Malcolm X Assassinated
    •Miniskirt First Appears
    •Nicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in Romania
    •New York City Great Blackout
  • Freedom

    Freedom
    •Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
  • first super bowl

    first super bowl
    •Six-Day War in the Middle East
  • •ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created

    •ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
    •Manson Family Murders
    •Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
    •Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
    •Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
    •Sesame Street First Airs
    •Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO