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US sends troops to vietnam
Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in august of 1964, the US sent Troops over. 3500 marines landed near Da Nang -
Voting Rights act of 1965
a system had been designed to make people do a literacy test to vote. This was outlawed which actually gave all blacks the right to vote -
Three astronauts killed in simulated Launch
They were killed in a flash fire that burned the command module -
Black Riots
A black riot in Newark NJ kills 26 and injures 1500. Week later in Detroit, 40 are killed and 2000 injured leaving 5000 homeless. 12,500 federal troopers and national guardsmen are called in to stop the riot -
Thurgood Marshall Becomes first African American supreme court justice
Marshall was the great-grandson of slaves. once again a color barrier had been broken -
First heart Transplant
The surgery was a success, however, the medications he got to keep his body from attacking his heart killed his immune system so he died 18 days later of pneumonia. -
MLK jr. Assassinated
MLK jr was shot from his motel balcony in Memphis Tennessee. The most influential figure in the US civil rights movement was dead -
Robert F Kennedy Assasinated
Kennedy was running for President. His death led to the protection of all future presidential candidates by the secret service. It was the third major assasination of the century -
Neil Armstrong steps onto the moon
The US successfully took on JFK's challenge, to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. It was the apollo 11 mission -
Palestinian Group Hijacks 5 planes
29 hijackings were attempted, five were Successful. 56 of the 421 members on the plane were held hostages, most of whom were americans or jewish
