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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an organization that played a vital role in civil rights with lunch counter sit-ins at whites-only businesses, was formed.
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The 1960 Presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon are televised.
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"The Flinstones," the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex sleeping together in one bed, premiered on television
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Democratic Candidate John F. Kennedy is elected President
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cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space
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Communist East Berlin authorities put up a wall overnight to prevent discontent East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin
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New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season.
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The Port Huron statement, a political manifesto of the North American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society, is released.
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Marilyn Monroe dies in Los Angeles of Barbiturate overdose.
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James Meredith, the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, was the center or controversy in the South that led to rioting on campus.
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A 13 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and United States occurred initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey, followed by Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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"Dr. No" premiers for the first time in the US, and is more low profile than it is in the United Kingdom, where it was released months before.
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Martin Luther King gives his well known "I have a dream" speech, in which he explains his version of an ideal nation in regards to race relations.
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated by American Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald
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John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr arrive on their first visit to the United States.
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The Beatles play live on The Ed Sullivan Show in front of an estimated 73 million Americans.
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The New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations, 24 US states, and over 45 corporations in Queens, New York
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US-backed patrol boats shelled two North Vietnamese islands in the Gulf of Tonkin, and then the Maddox headed to the area.
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Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson wins the 1964 election with running mate Hubert Humphrey.
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American Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm Little is assassinated at Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan
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A riot occurred in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, following a minor roadside argument that broke out and escalated into a fight with police.
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The show "Star Trek" airs on NBC, comprising 79 episodes over three seasons from 1966 to 1969.
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The first NFL Superbowl is played by the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.
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The Beatles release their eighth studio album, "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band"
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Boxer Muhammad Ali is drafted for the US Military and refuses to enlist, claiming that he is a consciousness objector to the war.
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a social phenomenon in which approximately 100,000 people, mostly young people, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
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The Monterrey Music Festival, a three-day concert event, is held at the Monterrey County Fairgrounds in Monterrey, California.
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Marshall becomes the first African American justice nominated to the Supreme Court
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North Vietnam attacked more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam
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Martin Luther King was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Robert Kennedy is shot and mortally wounded by Palestinian Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
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Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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Possession of lysergic acid diethylamide, a hallucinogenic drug that symbolized 1960's counterculture, was deemed illegal
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Republican Candidate Richard Nixon is elected President
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A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid took place at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Apollo 11, with Americans Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins on board, landed on the moon.
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American Actress Sharon Tate is murdered by the Manson Family Cult, led by Charles Manson.
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A concert held on a dairy farm in New York attracted an audience of more than 400,000 people
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The Rolling Stones host the Altamont Music Festival, a free counterculture concert hosted in Northern California.
