60's timeline

SNCC formed

Apr 1, 1960

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics.

American astronauts land on the moon

Jul 20, 1960

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on 14 December 1972 with Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17.

First televised Presidential debate

Sep 26, 1960

First airing of “The Flintstones”

Sep 30, 1960

first cartoon on Tv that is history

President Kennedy is elected

Nov 8, 1960

Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election and won

Russians send the first man into space

Apr 12, 1961

started the space race

Berlin Wall is constructed

Aug 13, 1961

the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989

Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth’s single season home run record

Oct 1, 1961

SDS releases its Port Huron statement

Jun 15, 1962

It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers (UAW) retreat outside of Port Huron, Michigan (now part of Lakeport State Park), for the group's first national convention

Marilyn Monroe dies

Aug 4, 1962

famous model dies in home

James Meredith registers at Ole Miss

Oct 2, 1962

james Meredith officially became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 16, 1962

a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech

Aug 28, 1963

“Dr. No” the first James Bond movie premiers

Oct 5, 1963

John F Kennedy is assassinated

Nov 22, 1963

He was the youngest person elected president and the youngest president at the end of his tenure

The Beatles arrive in the United States

Feb 7, 1964

first time the famous band lands in the united states

The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan

Feb 9, 1964

New York World’s Fair begins

Oct 18, 1964

Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater

Nov 3, 1964

Malcolm X assassinated

Feb 21, 1965

Watts race riots

Aug 11, 1965

Public opinion polls studied in the few years after the riot showed that a majority believed the riots were linked to communist groups

“Star Trek” TV show airs

Sep 8, 1966

San Francisco “Summer of Love” begins

Jan 14, 1967

The event draws more than 20,000 people to enjoy peace, love, music and psychedelics

First NFL Football Super Bowl

Jan 15, 1967

Green Bay Packers competed against the American Football League's Kansas City Chiefs

Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses military service

Apr 28, 1967

Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s album

May 26, 1967

ground breaking album released by the Beatles

Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court

Jun 13, 1967

President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States

LSD declared illegal by the U.S. government

Jan 1, 1968

Tet Offensive

Jan 20, 1968

The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War

Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

Apr 4, 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated as he stood on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel

Robert Kennedy is assassinated

Jun 6, 1968

Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Aug 23, 1968

Richard Nixon is elected

Jan 2, 1969

Stonewall riots

Jun 28, 1969

were a series of protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid

Woodstock concert

Aug 15, 1969

Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstoc

The Rolling Stones host the Altamont music festival

Dec 6, 1969