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in New York's final game of the regular season, Yankees slugger Roger Maris hits his 61st home run, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball to hit more than 60 in a season. -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first man in space. -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics. -
Kennedy vs. Nixon. Nixon was very nervous and Kennedy was made for the TV. -
The Flintstones first were introduced to television audiences by ABC. -
Kennedy was elected the 25th president of the USA. -
A wall that separated East and West Berlin. -
At 8 o'clock on February 9th 1964, America tuned in to CBS and The Ed Sullivan Show. But this night was different. 73 million people gathered in front their TV sets to see The Beatles' first live performance on U.S. soil. -
"the civil rights and peace and student movements are too poor and socially slighted, and the labor movement too quiescent" -
36 year old Marilyn Monroe died of overdose. -
The first Black student at the University of Missouri. -
Dr. No is a 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young, and it is the first film in the James Bond series. -
The Soviet Union secretly installed missles in Cuba to launch at the US. We almost went to war before everyone withdraw their missles. -
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -
JFK was assassinated in Parkland Health, Dallas, TX. -
The Beatles arrived at JFK airport and fans greeted them. -
A fair that held over 140 pavilions and 110 restaurants, representing 80 nations, 24 US states, and over 45 corporations with the goal and the final result of building exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City -
Johnson beat Goldwater in the general election, winning over 61% of the popular vote, the highest percentage since the popular vote first became widespread in 1824. -
He was an African American religious leader during the Civil Rights movement. -
Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American man to serve as Supreme Court Justice. -
Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African-American man, was pulled over for drunken driving. -
The first two American states to outlaw the manufacture, sale, and possession of the drug. -
Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969. -
30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. -
Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs. The Packers won. -
When Ali arrived to be inducted in the United States Armed Forces, however, he refused, citing his religion forbade him from serving. -
The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's album and it had a rushed release. -
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Robert Kennedy was shot at PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA. -
A series of protest activities against the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
Nixon was the 37th president of the USA. -
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid. -
Neil Armstrong was the first man ever on the moon. -
A music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
The Rolling Stones perform a free concert that was seen as a Woodstock West.