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Elvis first appeared on the Milton Berle show in 1956. Teenage girls loved him and adults hated him. He started rock'n'roll and was considered scandalous for his "vulgar" dance moves.
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Governor George Wallace ended his blockade with the University of Alabama and allowed two black students to enroll and enter the school.
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President John F. Kennedy was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald, while riding around downtown Dallas, Texas. JFK died later that day at the hospital.
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President Lyndon Johnson sent troops to defeat the South Vietnamese Army.
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Robert "Bobby" Kennedy was shot while walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel and he passed away later that day at the Good Samaritan Hospital.
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Former Vice President Richard Nixon, was the Democratic nominee and was elected as president in the 1968 election.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to fly to the moon on the Apollo 11.
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Charles Manson was a famous serial killer, who is believed to have committed 35 murders. He was arrested in 1971 for first-degree murder and was sentenced to death, but was sentenced to life in priso, after California got rid of the death penalty in 1972.
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While Alabama Governor George Wallace was campaigning as the Democratic Presidential Candidate, he was shot several times by Arthur Bremer on May 15, 1972.
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Watergate was a huge political scandal, where there was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate office Complex in D.C. and Nixon’s adminstration tried to cover up their involvement in the break-in.
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The watergate scandal escalated, which got rid of a lot of Nixon’s political support. Nixon resigned, due to the fact that he was almost certainly going to be impeached.
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John Lennon, an English musician, a former member of the Beatles, and famous for being an advocate for peace, was shot several times in New York City and was pronounced dead upon arrival at Roosevelt Hospital.
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President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. Hinckley shot Reagan to try and impress Jodie Foster, who he was obsessed with.
