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First airing of "The Flintstones"
The first episode was called "The Flintstone Flyer" this became a quick hit and people started liking it. -
Kennedy is Elected
On this day president kennedy was elected and became the 35th president of the United states -
Russians send first man into space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
The Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it -
Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth's single season home run record
Roger Maris breaks the home-run record. On October 1, 1961, New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Marilyn Monroe dies
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she died of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening -
James Meredith registers at Ole Miss
Meredith registered as the first African-American student at Ole Miss on October 1, 1962 -
Dr. King "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. -
John F Kennedy is Assanated
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas -
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. -
The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan
they 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 -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
This was also know as the USS Maddox incident. This caused more US influence in Vietnam -
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X, an African American nationalist, and religious leader is 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. -
LSD declared illegal by the US Government
went into effect immediately in Nevada, and on October 6, 1966, in California. Other U.S. states and the rest of the world followed with the ban. -
San Francisco "Summer of Love" begins
The Summer of Love, when some 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. -
First NFL Superbowl
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 -
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. His local draft board had rejected his application for conscientious objector classification. -
Beatles release Sgt. Peppers Album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on June 2, 1967, in the United States, it spent 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the US. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the 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. On August 30, after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11 -
Tet Offensive
Series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. An hour later, he was declared dead. -
Robert Kennedy is Assassinated
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. -
Richard Nixon is elected
Vice president was Nixon was elected and then beat the democratic nominee to because the president. -
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 -
American astronauts land on the moon
On this day it was the first time any man went to the moon and stepped foot on the moon so this was a big deal for the space program -
Manson family murders Sharon Tate
The Tate murders were a series of killings conducted by members of the Manson Family on August 8–9, 1969, which claimed the lives of five people. -
Woodstock Concert
The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. ... The Woodstock Music Festival was the brainchild of four men, all age 27 or younger -
Rolling stones host the altamont music festival
Altamont, a new music festival in Northern California, 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.
