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SNCC was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was formed by young students who were motivated to make change through non-violent actions
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Viewed by 70 million people, Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy were the candidates during the first presidential debate shown on national television
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In 1960 "The Flintstones" released their first episode of a show that would continue to be loved and relevant for decades to come.
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On this day John F. Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States after defeating Richard Nixon.
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Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space when the Soviet Union sent him in April of 1961.
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In the 1961 season Roger Maris beat Babe Ruth's single season home run record from 1927 with 61 home runs.
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James Meredith was a Civil Rights activist who made history as the first African American admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi
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The Port Huron statement was written by a University of Michigan student named Tom Hayden which introduced the "New Left"
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On this day beloved American actress Marilyn Monroe overdosed and died; it is unknown if the overdose was intentional or not.
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On this day in 1962, the first of many Jame Bond movie premiered at the London Pavilion theater.
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This was a 13 day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union initiated by the missiles the US had in Italy and Turkey and the missiles the Soviet Union had in Cuba.
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On this day MLK gave a speech preaching about racial equality. His most remembered quote from this speech is "I Have A Dream".
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While riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas, JFK was shot in the neck/head. He was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital but died soon after.
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The Beatles left the London airport early on the morning on February 7, 1964 to come to America, which would soon be followed by their enormous musical success.
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This was important because it was the Beatles first live American television performance
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This was a fair that in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens which held 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, and was for 80 nations to build exhibits and attractions
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On this date North Vietnamese boats attacked the US Maddox while their destroyer was in the water. This led to the America's full involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Prior to the wall being built, during the Cold War, East Germans tried to escape to the West Berlin. So the wall was built in order to prevent this from happening.
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In the presidential election of 1964 Lyndon B Johnson beat Barry Goldwater and became the 36th president of the US
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Civil Rights activist Malcom X was shot and killed by assassins who identified as Black Muslims.
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These riots took place from August 11-16, 1965 in Watts, Los Angeles and were caused by Marquette Frye being pulled over by a cop for reckless driving.
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The original series of "Star trek" aired on NBC, but due to low ratings, the network canceled it after only three seasons.
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On this day LSD went from a Schedule I Drug to completely illegal in the United States.
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This was the first championship game for the NFL. It occurs annually and is one of the biggest sporting events in America.
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Ali refused to be inducted into the military service and do to his refusal, he was stripped of his heavyweight title.
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This was their 8th studio album that they released which included hits such as: Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. They were awarded four Grammy's for this album including Album of the Year.
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This was a three day international music festival that featured blues rock, folk rock, hard rock, and psychedelic rock styles held in Monterey, California
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On this day Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court where he continued to fight for racial equality as a judge.
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These protests were held before and during the Democratic National Convention and were against the Vietnam War.
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On the Lunar new year/Tet holiday, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attacked multiple targets in South Vietnam.This weakened public US support for the Vietnam War
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On this day Civil Rights Leader MLK was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee.
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On June 6, 1968 he was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles California. At the time he was a 42 year old senator from New York and was well-known from his brothers success as president of the US.
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On this day Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey and became the 37th president of the United States.
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During this summer 100,000 people; mostly young people/hippies converged in Haight-Ashbury
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These riots were violent protests that gay people held against the police.
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On this date two men named Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrich flew in the Apollo 11 and made history as the first Americans to land on the moon.
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On August 8th and 9th of 1969, the Manson family killed five people; including the actress Sharon Tate.
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This was a music festival held from August 15-18 in 1969 in the Catskill Mountains in New York where over 400,000 people attended.
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Occurring a couple months after Woodstock, The Rolling Stones headlined for the Altamont music festival and many people thought it would be like their own Woodstock.
