-
The u2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR.
-
The first debate for a presidential election was televised. It was between John F. Kennedy and Nixon. Nixon was nervous, but Kennedy stood tall. The debate on TV changed many people's minds about Kennedy.
-
First american in outer space
-
"Dr. No" premiered on 5 October 1962 as the first James Bond flim.
-
The USA and USSR sign a ban on nuclear testing.
-
Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream". More than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators came to Washington DC to demand equal rights for Black and Whites.
-
desegregation in alabama schools, National Guard troops were called in to let black teens go to white schools
-
JFK was shot in the motorcade on Elm streetin front of the Texas state book depository.
-
The Beatles came to the us, and later played on the The Ed Sullivan Show.
-
unruly mob of black residents of Los Angeles, enraged at the alleged treatment of a black motorist by the white policemen
-
Martin luther king was assassinted
-
Winning one of the closest elections in U.S. history, trick dick take office.
-
half a million people headed over to farm in New York for the Woodstock Festival. Many top rock bands were there. It lasted three days, a weekend of music, love and peace.
