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An American spy plane shot down by Soviet Unoin, poilet captured and put in prision.
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Kennedy moves into Office
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New York City introduces a subway train that operates without a crew on board
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Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact- a commercial agreement intended to increase trade between the island and neighboring islands in the region.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, Soviet Union, and Cuba in the early 1960s during the Cold War.
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W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist that made significant contributions to debates about race, politics, and history in the United States.
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Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream" on August 28, 1963. More than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators came to Washington DC to demand equal rights for Black and Whites.
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Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22. Nobody knows who killed President Kennedy for sure.
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Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination in public places, theaters, restaurants and hotels, illegal. Required employers to provide equal employment opportunities.
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Gemini 1 is launched on the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft. The planned mission was quite short and lasted only three orbits. The spacecraft stayed attached to the second stage of the rocket.
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The world's first roofed stadium was built, the Houston Astrodome.
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Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President.
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Malcolm X speking to a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity when a disturbance broke out in the crowd of 400. A man yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" As Malcolm X and his bodyguards moved to quiet the disturbance, a man rushed forward and shot him in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun.Two other men charged the stage and fired handguns, hitting him 16 times. Angry onlookers caught and beat one of the assassins as the others fled the ballroom.
