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This means Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was founded in Shaw University.
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It was a Nixon-Kennedy debate in Chicago at the studios of CBS's WBBM-TV
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The first episode was named "The Flintstone Flyer" and the showed aired until 1966.
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This was the 44th election, JFK won as a democratic nominee defeating Richard Nixon.
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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. He was also the first person to orbit the planet.
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Two days after using barbed wire to seal off the free passage between East and West Berlin, East German authorities started to build the wall to close off the access to the west.
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He hit over 60 home runs beating the record set by Babe Ruth in 1927.
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Political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society.
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Due to a drug overdose Marilyn Monroe dies at 36 in her home.
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James Meredith was an African American man who wanted to enroll in a white university, the University of Mississippi and this caused an uproar and riots.
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The first of the James bond movies based on the book Dr.No by Ian Fleming.
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There was a presence of missiles in Cuba so JFK had a naval blockade surrounding Cuba. A deal was made that the missiles were removed if the US promised not to invade Cuba.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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While in Texas and driving in a motorcade a shot was fired at John F. Kennedy hitting him in the head and neck then was pronounced dead. The arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald was made and he was believed to be the one behind the assassination but he was killed by Jack Ruby before he could stand trial and Ruby was later convicted of his murder.
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This started their international stature and changed the face of music in the United States
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They played 5 songs and this boosted their fame because more people saw them live.
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It was a fair featuring restaurants, pavilions and nations with attractions and had about 51 million visitors.
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This was the beginning of involvement in the Vietnam War for the U.S. after two alleged US naval destroyers were attacked. The resolution was to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States to prevent further aggression."
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This was the 45th Presidential Election the democratic nominee won.
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He was assassinated by Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.
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Took place in the Watts Neighborhood in LA and the people of Watts ended up being unemployed and in poor conditions.
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This was a NBC science fiction show following star ship adventures.
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30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park they were searching for love, freedom, drugs and music.
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Packers beat the Chiefs, 35-10 and this was played at Memorial Coliseum in LA.
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During the Vietnam War he was convicted of refusing the draft(which was appealed later).
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The album spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK top charts and in the US was number one for 15 weeks.
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The beginning of the Summer of Love and was a three day music festival.
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He replaced the retiring judge Tom C. Clark and the vote was confirmed 69 to 11 after heated debate. He was the first African American Supreme Court Judge.
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These were North Vietnamese coordinated attacks. The US and South Vietnamese forces held them off which gained public attention and caused shock at the US' support of war efforts.
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A hallucinogenic drug, LSD, that was legal until this time.
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He was killed in Memphis, Tennessee at 39 on his motel's balcony.
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After he announced he won the California presidential primary to his supporters Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan shot him multiple times and he died the next day.
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This was to protest the Vietnam War and throughout Chicago said they will maintain order during the Convention.
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In the 46th election as a republican he defeats Hubert Humphrey.
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Th police invaded the Stonewall Inn, in New York, a gay club.
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The first manned mission to the moon was Apollo 11, this US won the space race against Russia for this.
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4 members of the Manson family entered the home of the actress Sharon Tate. 7 people were murdered total.
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This was a three day music concert and was referred at "3 days of Peace & Music".
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The Rolling tones hosted this festival that ended in an African American was killed at this free concert.
