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SNCC formed.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University. -
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America in the 1960's
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First televised Presidential debate.
1960 Kennedy–Nixon debates. The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS's WBBM-TV. -
Flinstones Air
The Flintstones premiered on September 30, 1960, at 8:30 pm, and quickly became a hit. It was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed, although Fred and Wilma are sometimes depicted as sleeping in separate beds. -
President Kennedy is elected.
JFK gets elected in the 1960 Presidential Campaign. -
Russia Sends the First Man to Space
April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. -
Berlin Wall is Constructed.
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's Single Season Home Run Record.
Roger Maris breaks the record for the most home runs in a single season! On October 1, 1961, Maris slammed home run number 61. -
James Meredith at Ole Miss
James Meredith was the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. The school had originally rejected his application, and a legal battle ensued. In 1962, segregationists protesting his admittance to Ole Miss led to bloody riots on campus. -
SDS releases its Port Huron statement.
The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the North American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. -
Dr. No (first James Bond) airs.
Dr. No (film) Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film, starring Sean Connery, with Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, which was filmed in Jamaica and England. It is the first James Bond film. -
Marilyn Monroe Dies
Marilyn Monroe overdosed on Barbiturate. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
A thirteen day period where war could have broken out at any point between the U.S. and Russia with a barrage of world ending missiles. -
Dr. King's I Have a Dream Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
JFK is assassinated.
JFK is assassinated in the middle of a parade in Texas -
Beatles in the U.S.
An estimated four thousand Beatles' fans were present on 7 February 1964 as Pan Am Flight 101 left Heathrow Airport. Among the passengers were the Beatles, on their first trip to the United States as a band, with their entourage of photographers and journalists, and Phil Spector. -
The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show.
On February 9th, 1964, The Beatles, with their Edwardian suits and mop top haircuts, made their first American television appearance—LIVE—on The Ed Sullivan Show. -
New York World's Fair begins.
The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations ..... It started off with financial trouble, not being able to complete its construction and subsequently filing for bankruptcy. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
A confrontation that dragged the U.S. into further involvement in the Vietnam War -
Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater
Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. ... Johnson championed his passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and his campaign advocated a series of anti-poverty programs collectively known as the Great Society. -
Malcolm X Assassinated.
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. -
Watts Race Riots.
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving. -
Star Trek airs.
Star Trek finally aired its first episode "The Man Trap" at 8:30PM on September 8, 1966. -
LSD is declared illegal.
LSD is declared illegal because of its harmful properties, and addictive nature. -
San Francisco "Summer of Love" Begins
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. -
Super Bowl I
The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl, was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. -
Beatles release Sgt. Pepper
DescriptionSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. -
Muhammad Ali refuses Military Service. -
On April 28, 1967, boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted ... cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service. -
Monterrey Music Festival
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey. -
Thurgood Marshall is nominated to the Supreme Court.
Two days later, he was sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren, making him the first African American in history to sit on America’s highest court. -
Tet Offensive
The turning point of the Vietnam War. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated.
Robert Kennedy is assassinated in a hotel in Los Angeles. -
Protests at the 1968 Drmocratic National Convention.
The Democratic Convention of 1968 was held August 26-29 in Chicago, Illinois. As delegates flowed into the International Amphitheater to nominate a Democratic Party presidential candidate, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War and the political status quo. -
Richard Nixon is elected.
Richard Nixon is elected president in the 1968 election. -
The Rolling Stones host the Altamont music festival.
The Altamont Festival brings the 1960s to a violent end. Altamont was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit. -
Manson family is murdered by Sharon Tate
The Tate murders were a series of killings conducted by members of the Manson Family on August 8–9, 1969, which claimed the lives of five people. Four members of the Family invaded the home of married celebrity couple, actress Sharon Tate and director Roman Polanski at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles. -
Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. -
American Astronauts Land on the Moon
American astronauts were the first humans to touch down on the moon. -
Woodstock Concert
Woodstock was a music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York City, between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000
