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SNCC is formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major American Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University -
First televised Presidential debate
John F. Kennedy had won that night's presidential debate. Yet if you heard the event on the radio, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was the clear winner. -
First Airing of the Flintstones
The pilot episode of the popular cartoon "The Flintstones". Fred fakes an illness so he and Barney can go bowling. -
President Kennedy is elected
The election of 1960 was a close election with the Democratic candidate, John F. Kennedy, defeating the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon. -
Russians send the first man into space
Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
Built by the German Democratic Republic, the Berlin Wall was constructed to cut off West Berlin from East Germany -
Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth's single season home run record
New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season -
SDS releases its Port Huron statement
The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -
Marilyn Monroe dies
After a drug overdose, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her house in LA, on August 5th, 1962 -
James Meredith Register at Ole Miss
The first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, a key point in the Civil rights era -
Cuban Missile Crisis
From October 16 - 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day conflict between the Soviet Union and The United States, sparked by America's discovery of Ballistic Missiles in Cuba -
Dr. No the first James Bond Movie Premiers
the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. -
Dr. King's I Have a dream Speech
public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism -
John F Kennedy is Assassinated
The 35th President, John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald,while Kennedy was riding through a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza -
The Beatles arrive in the United States
The Beatles first arrived in America on February 7, 1964. The band influenced the youth to break away from the rigid culture that surrounded the 1950s. -
The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan
The Beatles, with their Edwardian suits and mop-top haircuts, made their first American television appearance—LIVE—on The Ed Sullivan Show. A record-setting 73 million people tuned in that evening making it one of the seminal moments in television history. -
New York's World Fair begins
The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations ... Preceding these fairs was the 1853–54 New York's World's Fair, -
Gulf of Tonkin Indecent
The Gulf of Tonkin sparked the beginning of America's more direct intervention with Vietnam.The US, in the Gulf of Tonkin, fired warning shots at the Vietnamese boats, and the Vietnamese retaliated with torpedoes and machine guns. -
Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater
The 1964 United States presidential election was the 45th quadrennial American presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. -
Malcom X assisnated
assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights -
Watts Race Riots
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving -
Star Trek TV show airs
Star Trek: The Original Series (referred to as Star Trek, prior to any spin-offs) is the first Star Trek series. The first episode of the show aired on 6 September 1966 on CTV in Canada, followed by an 8 September 1966 airing on NBC in America. The show was created by Gene Roddenberry as a "Wagon Train to the Stars". -
First NFL Football Superbowl
Played at the L.A. Memorial Colosseum, between the Kansas City Chiefs vs the Greenbay Packers, with the Packers beating the Chiefs. -
Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service
Muhammad Ali's appeal of his conviction in 1967 for refusing to report for induction into the United States military forces during the Vietnam War. -
Beatles Release Sgt. Pepper's Album
On May 26, 2967, the Beatles released their 8th studio album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album cover depicts many celebrities in the image. -
San Francisco "Summer of Love" begins
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, traveled to San Francisco -
Monterrey Music Festival held
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet offensive was a series of numerous surprised attacks, orchestrated by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, upon cities, towns, and villages; in South Vietnam -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
MLK Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesse; by a white supremacist who opposed King's views of furthering the African American community. -
Robert Kennedy is Assasinated
Robert F. Kennedy, the senator of New York, was mortally wounded after midnight, in the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. -
LSD becomes Illegal
On October 24, 1968, possession of LSD was made illegal in the United States -
Protests at the 1968 DNC
As delegates flowed into the International Amphitheatre to nominate a Democratic Party presidential candidate, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War -
Richard Nixon is Elected
Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate, defeated Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate, in the Election of 1968. -
Stonewall Riots
series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn -
American Astronauts land On the Moon
Apollo 11 is the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were able to walk around on the moon while the pilot would stay on the spacecraft by themselves. -
Manson Family Murders Sharon Tate
The Tate murders were a mass murder conducted by members of the Manson Family on August 8–9, 1969, which claimed the lives of five people -
Woodstock Concert
A music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains -
The rolling stones host the altamont music festival
Altamont was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit.
