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SNCC formed
It was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major American Civil Rights Movement organizations. -
First Televised President debate
It was btw JFK and Nixon to see who was gonna be the next president. -
First Airing of "The Flintstones"
This tv show became a quick hit in the US -
Kennedy is elected
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. The democrat of the United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee -
Russians sent the first man into space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to go into outer space -
Berlin Wall is constructed
The Communist government of East Germany built a wall separating East and West Berlin. The wall was built to keep the people in. -
Roger Maris break Babe Ruth's record
New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season. -
Golf of Tonkin Incident
This was an international confrontation that led the USA to engaged more with the Vietnam War. It involved one real and one falsely about ships. -
Marilyn Monroe dies
Marilyn Monroe was a very famous actress and model in this time period. She died from a barbiturate overdose. -
James Meredith registers at Ole Miss
James Meredith is a civil rights figure and writer. He went through a tough path of segregationists in order to graduate from Ole Miss -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Missile Scare was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba -
LSD declared illegal by U.S gov
LSD is a hallucinogenic drug that was first synthesized by a Swiss scientist in the 1930s. During the Cold War, the CIA conducted. -
Dr. No
This film was launched the James Bond saga, Sean Connery battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica -
Dr Kings "I Have A Dream" Speech
This was a public speech said by Martin luther king Jr himself during the time of civil rights movement. -
John F Kennedy is assassinated
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Kennedy’s motorcade was turning past the Texas School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza with crowds lining the streets and then shots went off -
Beatles Arrive in the United States
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool. They flew into America landing in the New York Kennedy Airport. -
The Beatles with Ed Sullivan
The Beatles, with their Edwardian suits and mop-top haircuts, made their first American television appearance. Live on the Ed Sullivan Show. A record-setting 73 million people tuned in. -
New York world fair begins
The Fair opened in New York City, bringing a plethora of innovative exhibits to Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens. -
Lyndon b. Johnson beats Barry Goldwater
During the 1964 campaign, Goldwater was decidedly critical of Johnson’s liberal domestic agenda, railing against welfare programs and defending his own decision to vote against the Civil Rights Act passed by Congress earlier that year. -
SDS Port Huron statement
It was a broad critique of the political and social system of the United States for failing to achieve international peace and economic justice. -
Malcolm X assignation
Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. -
Watts race riots
The Watts riots sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles to, Marquette Frye, an African-American. -
San Francisco "Summer of Love" begins
This was social phenomenon starting in the summer of 1967. It inspired the start of the hippie style. -
First NFL superbowl
This was the first professional football Superbowl played in Los Angeles. The green bay packers won. -
Star Trek
This follows the crew of the starship USS Enterprise as it completes its missions in space in the 23rd century. Captain James T. Kirk -
M Ali refuses military service
He did not want to for religious purposes. -
Beatles Release Sgt. Pepper's album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the Beatles. It was released on May 26, 1967 in the UK and June 2, 1967 in the US. It spent 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top chart in the US. -
Monterrey music festival
It was a three-day concert event held, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall was well known for being the first African American supreme court justice. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was the General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. It was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War launched. -
Martin luther king JR is assassinated
MLK was a very important person in the civil rights movement. He was shot on his second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. -
Democratic nation convention
The Democratic National Convention is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832. -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
Robert Kennedy was shot in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. He was immediately injured and later passed away in the Good Samaritan Hospital in LA. -
Nixon Election
He was nominated in 68 but became president in 1969. The former Vice President Richard Nixon defeated the Democratic nominee incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Stonewall riots
Violent events of gay community members rioting against the police. -
Land on the moon
The Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module. -
Manson Family murder
The Manson family was a crazy family that went on a murder rampage. -
Woodstock Concert
Woodstock was a huge festival in Bethel, NY that had the goal of "3 days of peace and music" It attracted a huge audience -
Rolling stones host Altamont music festival
The Altamont Speedway in northern California, United States. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, and some anticipated that it would be a "Woodstock West.
