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President Kennedy is elected
Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy defeats republican Richard Nixon. This was heavily due to Kennedy´s professional appearance and speech during the first ever televised debate. -
The Berlin Wall is built
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. -
Marilyn Monroe dies
Marilyn Monroe is found dead at the age 36 due to an overdose in her Los Angeles home. -
Cuban Missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
John F Kennedy is assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office. -
The Beatles arrive in America
UK artists ¨The Beatles¨ land in the USA at the JFK airport to thousands of fans. -
San Francisco ¨Summer of love¨
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. -
The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper´s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The eight studio album of the English rock band filled with political commentary on American politics and society. The album spent 27 weeks at number one. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall nominated by Lyndon B. Johnson to be the first African American on the Supreme Court. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Robert Francis Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. -
Richard Nixon is elected president
Republican Richard Nixon is elected president after defeating democrat Hubert Humphrey -
American astronauts land on the moon
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first human to set foot on the moon. They place an American flag, as if to show Russia who´s number one.