60s

By Elliot2000

  • SNCC formed

  • First televised Presidential debate

  • First airing of “The Flintstones”

  • President Kennedy is elected

  • Russians send the first man into space

  • Berlin Wall is constructed

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

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • SDS releases its Port Huron statement

  • Marilyn Monroe dies

  • James Meredith registers at Ole Miss

  • “Dr. No” the first James Bond movie premiers

  • Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech

  • John F Kennedy is assassinated

  • The Beatles arrive in the United States

  • The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan

  • New York World’s Fair begins

  • Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • Watts race riots

  • “Star Trek” TV show airs

  • San Francisco “Summer of Love” begins

  • First NFL Football Super Bowl

  • Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s album

  • Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court

  • Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses military service

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

  • Robert Kennedy is assassinated

  • Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention

  • LSD declared illegal by the U.S. government

  • Richard Nixon is elected

  • Stonewall riots

  • American Moon Landing

  • Woodstock concert

  • The Rolling Stones host the Altamont music festival