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First prime time scheduling for an animated series, the show was a major hit and spiraled into many additional seasons.
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Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to win the Presidency, defeating his republican counterpart, Rich Nixon.
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Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to enter space aboard the Vostok 3K-A. It was an orbiting mission without a landing destination except back on Earth.
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Wall that separated the Soviet controlled East Germany from the rest of Germany.
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Roger Maris becomes the first player to get more than 60 home runs in a season, breaking Babe Ruth's previous record.
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Marilyn Monroe dies of a barbiturate overdose. Monroe was a major sex symbol and celebrity, and her death was a widely publicized ordeal.
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An African American man named James Meredith matriculated at Ole Miss, and consequently caused a battle between the southern segregationists and the law enforcement officers.
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A 13 day violence-less confrontation between Soviet Missile carriers near Cuba and American ships.
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Martin Luther King Junior gives a speech about equality for African Americans to an enormous gathering during the Jobs and Freedom marches on Washington.
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Lee Harvey Oswald shoots and kills JFK with a long range rifle as he rides through the streets in an open top limo.
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Beatles arrive on board Pan Am Flight 101 to crowds of fans.
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Confrontation between the US Maddox and North Vietnamese torpedo boats that spurred America's involvement in the war.
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A man in the crowd shoots Malcolm in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun, followed by 2 men charging the stage with semi-automatic pistols.
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over 100,000 people congregated in San Francisco, mostly hippies, which created a culture of care-free happiness.
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Green Bay Packers slaughter the Kansas City Chiefs in the first ever Super Bowl with attendance of 61,000.
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Muhammed Ali objects to his draft call citing being a conscientious objector. His appeal was rejected and he was stripped of his heavyweight title.
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The Beatles release their 8th album, which spent 15 weeks as the number 1 album in America, and 27 weeks as #1 in the UK, and won several distinguished awards.
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Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Marshall to succeed Tom C. Clark, and the senate passes this nomination by a wide margin.
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Series of coordinated attacks from North Vietnamese soldiers on South Vietnamese cities.
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James Earl Ray shoots MLK as he stands on his balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Ray is caught and given life in prison.
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Sirhan Sirhan shoots Robert F. Kennedy in the torso backstage of his venue.
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Nixon becomes the 37th President and the only President to resign from office.
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Members of the gay community reacted violently against police officers following a raid on one of their own's home.
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong
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Outdoor concert of 400,000 people featuring lots of hippie bands. Major event of the time period, and it was essentially the epitome of the times.
