The 1960's

By big_mac_destroyer
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    Main World Events from the 1960's

  • Alfred Hitchcock's Movie "Psycho" is released.

  • First Televised Presidential Debates

  • Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa

  • Berlin Wall built.

    The Berlin Wall was the wall seperating East Germany and West Germany, now two countries.

  • JFK gives "Man on Moon" speech.

  • Peace Corps Founded

  • Soviet Union launch first man into space

  • Famous Escape from Alcatraz

  • First Person killed for trying to cross the Berlin Wall

  • First Wal-Mart opens

  • Marilyn Munroe found dead

  • Andy Warhol exhibits his first Campbell's Soup Can

  • First James Bond Movie

  • A Buddhist Monk sets himself on fire in protest.

  • First Woman in Space

  • JFK Assassinated

  • March on Washington

  • Martin Luther King makes his "I have a dream" Speech

  • Nelson Mandella sentenced to life in prison

  • Civil Rights Act passed in US

  • Miniskirt first appears

  • National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded

  • Harold Holt disappears

  • First Super-Bowl

  • Martin Luther King Assassinated

  • Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

  • First Man on the Moon - Neil Armstrong