1960's Timeline

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  • Atomic bomb

    Atomic bomb

    France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan

    Civil rights worker shot and killed by KKK in Alabama.
  • u-2 spu plane

    u-2 spu plane

    Soviet Union shoot down U.S. U-2 spy plane.
  • Cuba revolution

    Cuba revolution

    Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech "I have a dream"

    Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech "I have a dream"

    In the speech he wanted to dissolved the differences between black and white.
  • Firts Roman Catholic in office

    Firts Roman Catholic in office

    John F. Knennedy was the firts Roman Catholic in office
  • Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa

    Mon Lisa is showed at The National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
  • John F. Keneddy was assassinated

    John F. Keneddy was assassinated

    President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Just moments before his death he was warned to "be careful in Texas" by a young woman.
  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights

    Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved.
  • Artificial birth

    Artificial birth

    Protestant Episcopal Church allowed the artificial birth.
  • France

    France

    French Somaliland votes to continue association with France.
  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

    Martin Luther King is assassinated

    Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • Tax

    Tax

    A bill adding a 10 percent surcharge to income taxes and reducing government spending is signed by President Johnson.
  • Shirley Chisholm

    Shirley Chisholm

    Shirley Chisholm was elected America's first black woman to Congress.
  • Apollo 11 landed on the moon

    Apollo 11 landed on the moon

    July 20, 1969, 4:18 p.m. Apollo 11 landed on the moon, astronauts aboard. Neil Armstrong's famous speech for the historical steps "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."