Time Line of 1960-1969

By jtb918
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    History

  • Biggest Explosion in History

    The USSR set off a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb making it the biggest explosion in world history.

  • First Artifical Heart Transplant

    Michael E. Bakey takes a step for medical history and transplants the first artifical heart.

  • Martin Luther King gives the 'I Have a Dream' speach

    Martin Luther King gives the 'I Have a Dream' speach
    Martin Luther King gives the 'I Have a Dream' speach to America. This speach was a big stepping stone in American History.

  • John F. Kennedy Assasination

    John F. Kennedy Assasination
    America mourned the loss of their president after he was shot in Texas,

  • Civil Rights Act

    The Civil Rights Act Passed and it was a huge landmark making the rights of blacks and women the same as white men.

  • Malcom X Shot

    Malcom X Shot
    Malcom X was shot to death in a New York City auditorium.

  • Blacks Riot in Watts Los Angelos

    Over 1,000 were injured and 34 dead on the streets on California from blacks rioting.

  • World's first sucessful human heart transplant

    A team of South American surgeons performs the worlds first sucessful human heart transplant, taking a giant leap in medical history.

  • Martin Luther King jr. killed

    Martin Luther King jr was shot on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennesse

  • First man to walk on the moon

    First man to walk on the moon
    Apollo 11 takes three astronauts to the moon, they take "One small step for man, one giant step for mankind."-Neil Armstrong