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John F. Kennedy Elected President
John F. Kennedy became the youngest man ever to become president of the United States. Not only was he the youngest but he was also the first Cathlic President. -
Russians Send the First Man Into Space
The Russian Astronaut Yuri Gagarin was the very first human to travel into space. He was launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft -
Berlin Builds New Wall
The wall was made by the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic or East Germany to keep the Facist Westerners out of East Germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis also known as the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confortation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan for the first time
When the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan for the first time there was an estimated 73 million Americans watching. Three-forths of the total adult audience in the United States was tuned-in to the live television program. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, involed what were claimed to be two seperate confortations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Peace Prize
The 35 year old civil rights leader was the youngest winner of the prize. The prize honors acts "for the furtherance of brotherhood among men and to the abolishment or reduction of standing armies and for the extension of these purposes." -
34 people die in Watts ghetto riot
In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, an African American was arrested for drunk driving. A minor roadside arguement broke out and then escalated into a fight lasting six days. -
Communist China Announces the H Bomb
While China was studying the atomic bomb they started exploring with hydrogen. They then successfully created the hydrogen bomb or H bomb. The H bomb had 150 times more explosive power than the atomic bomb that the United States used on Hiroshima. -
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, spoke these words to more than one billion people at home, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon.
