Top 10 moments from the 1960's

By gmdufault

  • Birth Control pill approved

    FDR approved the birth control pill

  • Videogame

    The first interactive video game was created in 1962.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    The United States learned of Soviet Missies in Cuba

  • Medgar assassination

    The civil rights leader Medgar was killed by assassination.

  • JFK's Assassination

    JFK was killed in Dallas in 1964.

  • Civil Rights Act

    In 1964 they outlawed discrimination based of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King was assented in Memphis, Tennessee

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the moon

    The United States landed on the moon.
  • Period: to

    Woodstock

    Woodstock was an art and musical festival that attracted more than 400,000 people.