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SNCC stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. They advocated for nonviolent protests against racism.
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This was the first televised debate between two politicians running for president. The debate was Kennedy vs Nixon.
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The second episode of "The Flintstones" is aired first.
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The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election.
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Yuri Gagarin is the first human to go into Space.
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Berlin wall is built.
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Roger Maris becomes the first MLB player to hit more than 60 homerooms in a season.
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is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society.
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This is a spy film directed by Terence Young.
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Famous actress Marilyn Monroe dies.
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James Meredith is the first black person to register at Ole Miss.
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13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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MLK's speech that called for civil and economic rights for colored people. It called for the end of racism.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK and Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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The fair was held in Flushing NY. It showcased the advancement of technology.
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The Beatles go to the United States.
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The Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan Show. They drew up the largest TV audience ever in the United States.
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
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Johnson beats Goldwater and becomes 36th president.
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Civil Rights Activists that was assassinated.
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This was a riot against racism in Los Angeles.
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"Star Trek" first aired in 1966.
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A big counterculture gathering.
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This was the first AFL vs NFL championship in professional football.
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Muhammad Ali refuses to go into the Army for relegious reasons.
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The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's album.
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This was a 3 day music festival in California.
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Thurgood Marshall is nominated to the Supreme Court.
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Lysergic acid diethylamide is deemed unsafe by United States.
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The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed.
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JFK's bro got killed.
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Protests were happening because people were against the war in Vietnam.
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The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968.
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Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers.
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This was musical festival held by the Rolling Stones. People were injured, cars were stolen and abandoned, and there was a lot of property damage.
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The Stonewall Riots were pro gay riots.
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On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon.
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A big counterculture concert in Upstate NY. Many people overdosed and died.
