Photo Realism: 1960-1970 World History

Anti-Segregation at Woolworth in Greensboro, NC

Jan 1, 1960

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3
Social

U2 Spy Plane shot down in Soviet Union

May 1, 1960

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3
World

Etch-a-Sketch

Jul 12, 1960

http://www.personal.psu.edu/mas53/timln960.html
art

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Apr 18, 1961

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

Alan B. Shephard rode in 1st US Suborbital Space craft

May 5, 1961

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3

Cuban Missile Crisis

Jan 1, 1962

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

John Glenn first American to orbit Earth

Feb 20, 1962

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak published in 1963

Jan 1, 1963

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

Presidential Commission of the Status of Women

Jan 1, 1963

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

"British Invasion" (of music) begins

Jan 1, 1963

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60smusic.html
art

First Artificial Heart

Apr 21, 1963

http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/timeline/timeline_text.html#revolutions
science

John F. Kennedy Assasinated

May 7, 1963

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

MLK "I Have A Dream" Speech

May 9, 1963

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (US and Soviet Union)

Jul 1, 1963

http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm
world

President Johnson begins "War on Poverty"

Jan 1, 1964

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3

Medicare Approved

Jan 1, 1964

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3

Smoking is "Hazardous to your health"

Jan 11, 1964

http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/timeline/timeline_text.html#revolutions
science

Watts Riots (in Los Angeles)

Jan 1, 1965

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

Op Art becomes popular

Jan 1, 1965

http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infocentral/frameset/decade/1960.htm#inventions
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Malcolm X murdered

Feb 21, 1965

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3

Vietnam War extended into Cambodia

Jan 1, 1966

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3
World

Thurgood Marshall becomes first black justice of Supreme Court

May 9, 1967

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3
Political

MLK assassinated

Apr 4, 1968

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3
political

Neil Armstrong first man to walk on moon

Jul 21, 1969

http://archives.mountaintimes.com/history/1960s/world.php3
Science

Sesame Street Premeire

Nov 10, 1969

http://www.personal.psu.edu/mas53/timln960.html
art