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FDA Approves the Birth Control Pill
The food ans drug administration approves the worlds first commercially produced birth-controll made by G.D searle Company of Chicago, Illinois. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba. -
JFK's Assassination
A memeber from the blank hand, Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president in Dallas, Texas. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilites and employment. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
General William C Westmoreland
A United States Army four- star general, he was in command of all U.S military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964-1968 -
Assassinations of Civil Rights Leaders
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Democratic National Convention
A convention of the U.S Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois -
Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at 20:18 UTC. -
Woodstock
A village in New York state, where 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival.