Peace

1960s

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  • Birth control approved by the FDA.

  • Theodore Maiman invented the first laser.

  • The movie Psycho is released.

  • Freedom riders challenge segregation on interstate buses.

    *Actual date not available.

  • Peace Corps was founded.

  • President John F. Kennedy gives the "Man on the Moon" speech.

  • Andy Warhol created his famous Campbell's soup painting.

    *Actual date not available.

  • First Wal-Mart opened in America.

  • Marilyn Monroe died.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. makes "I have a dream" speech.

  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occured in the capital for equal rights for African Americans.

  • John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

  • Hasbro creates GI Joe.

    *Actual date not available.

  • The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and become popular all over the US.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted giving African Americans complete equal rights.

  • Miniskirt becomes popular.

    *Actual date not available.

  • US sends first set of troops to Vietnam.

  • New York City Great Blackout.

  • Vietnam War draft protests.

    *Actual date not available.

  • NOW organization formed.

  • First episode of Star Trek aired.

  • 3 astronauts killed in simulated space launch.

  • First Super Bowl.

  • Thurgood Marshall first African American on US Supreme Court.

  • My Lai Massacre

    US troops murdered almost 500 civilians in My Lai in Vietnam.

  • Nerve gas leak in Utah kills 6,000 sheep.

  • Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated.

  • First person walks on the moon.

  • Woodstock

  • First episode of Sesame Street airs.