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Russians send first man into space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule Vostok 1 completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. America worried because of the great space race. -
SNCC 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. -
SNCC 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. Wikipedia -
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America in the 60's
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First televised Presidential debate
The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS's WBBM-TV. -
First airing of "The Flintstones"
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the Flintstones, acknowledged in interivews that they were influenced by the Honeymooners. People loved the show immediately -
President Kennedy is elected
Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. On November 8th 1960, He was then elected president. -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
The Communist government of East Germany built a wall separating East and West Berlin. The wall was built to keep the country's people in because Berlin alone, 3.6 million people fled to the west. But the Soviets and East German government said it was to keep capitalism out. -
Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth's single season home run records
New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season. The great Babe Ruth set the record in 1927; Maris and his teammate Mickey Mantle spent 1961 trying to break it. -
SDS releases its Port Huron statement
The Port Huron Statement was a broad critique of the political and social system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and economic justice. ... In domestic matters, it criticized racial discrimination, economic inequality, big businesses, trade unions and political parties. -
Marilyn Monroe dies
Marilyn Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home in Los Angeles, California. -
Marilyn Monroe dies
She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and was emblematic of the era's changing attitudes towards sexuality. She died of Monroe died of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962. They did not find any credible evidence to support the theory that Monroe was murdered. -
James Meredith registers at Ole Miss
James Meredith was the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. The school had originally rejected his application, and a legal battle ensued. In 1962, segregationists protesting his admittance to Ole Miss led to bloody riots on campus. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
"Dr.No" the first james bond film movie premiered
In 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. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder -
Dr. King's "I have a Dream" Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a 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 in the United States -
Lyndon B Johnson defeated Barry Goldberg
Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. With 61.1% of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since the largely uncontested 1820 election. -
The Beatles arrive in the United States
The Beatles arrived in the United States and their televised performances on The Ed Sullivan Show were viewed by approximately 73 million people. It established the Beatles' international stature, changed attitudes to popular music in the US and sparked the British Invasion phenomenon. -
The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan
9 February 1964 was the date of The Beatles' record-breaking first live appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, at Studio 50 in New York City. The Beatles then followed that hit with Paul McCartney singing “Till There Was You,” before wrapping up the first set with “She Loves You.” The hour-long Ed Sullivan Show broadcast concluded with The Beatles singing two more of their hits, “I Saw Her Standing There” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand. -
Gulf of time Tonkin Incident
Passed on August 7, 1964, by the U.S. Congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America's full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War -
Malcolm X assassinated
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, he was a religious leader, assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights -
Watts race riot
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts .... Resentment of such longstanding racial injustices are cited as reasons why Watts' African-American population exploded on August 11, 1965. -
"Star Trek" TV show airs
The series originally aired from September 1966 through June 1969 on NBC. This is the first television series in the Star Trek franchise, and comprises 79 regular episodes over the series' three seasons, along with the series' original pilot episode, "The Cage". -
First NFL Super Bowl
Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl. On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) smash the American Football League (AFL)'s Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in the first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship, later known as Super Bowl I, at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. -
Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's album
Sgt. Pepper's album was the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the US. -
Monterey 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 -
boxer muhammad ali refuses military service
On June 20, 1967, Ali was tried, convicted and sentenced in a Houston court to five years in prison for refusing to serve in the military and was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine for draft evasion. Clay v. United States, 403 U.S. 698 (1971), was 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. -
Thurgood Marshall nominate to Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court. President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. After a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11 -
LSD declared illegal by the U.S government
LSD was deemed too unpredictable to use in the field. At the time, these substances were illegal in the United States. (The U.S. federal government didn't outlaw LSD until 1968.). -
Tet Offensive
A series of attacks from north Vietnam, officially called The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau ,on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
On the second-floor balcony near his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he had been supporting black sanitation workers on strike for better pay and working conditions, he was shot -
New York World's fair begins
The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was a world's fair that held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations (hosted by 37), 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
Kennedy was shot three times—once in the head and twice in the back—with a fourth bullet passing through his jacket. He died almost 26 hours later. -
protests at the 1968 democratic National convention
Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1967, counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups had been promising to come to Chicago and disrupt the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. -
Richard Nixon is ELected
The United states 1968 election, the 46th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. On November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. -
American astronauts land on the moon
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Manson family murders Sharon Tate
On August 9, 1969, Tate and four others were murdered by members of the Manson Family in the home she shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski. -
Woodstock Concert
Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Bethel Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000 -
The Rolling Stones host the Alamont music festival
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert held on Saturday, ... During the Rolling Stones' 1969 U.S. tour, many (including journalists) felt that the ticket prices were far too high -
John F Kennedy is Assassinated
JFKs presidential term was January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 when he was assassinated. Bullets struck the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was shot in his back. How many assians were involved are debated -
San Francisco "Summer of Love" begins
30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. They came to take part in counterculture poet Allen Ginsberg and writer Gary Synder's "Human Be-In" initiative, part of the duo's call for a collective expansion of consciousness
