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U-2 plane got shot down over the USSR
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The sit-ins spread to 15 cities in 5 southern states
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
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John F. Kennedy narrowly wins the Presidential election over Vice-President Richard Nixon, Kennedy is the first Catholic to ascend to the Presidency. Lyndon Baines Johnson is elected Vice-President
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70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised presidential debate
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the Unites States invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and the mission is a failure
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alan shepherd jr. first american in space
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East German border guards begin construction of Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall physically seperated Communist East Gernmany and Democratic West Germany
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the United States starts underground nuclear testing.
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviets establish missile bases in Cuba, Kennedy orders a naval blockade to divert any missiles from arriving in Cuba.
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Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy are arrested and go to jail in Birmingham during the protests, King then writes his Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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President Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Bill.
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In Jackson,Mississippi, the state's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers is assassinated outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulted in hung juries. Only thirty years later is he convicted for murdering Evers
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USA and USSR established a hotline connection
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USA and USSR sign nuclear testing ban treaty
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250,000 march on washington
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johnson takes over presidency
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as President on Air Force One with First Lady Jackie Kennedy present.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal
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Announced that Martin Luther King Jr. has won the the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Malcom X is assassinated in New York City. Malcolm X was a black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. It is believed the assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had recently abandoned
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests and other such requirements that tended to restrict black voting become illegal.
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martin luther king jr. was assassinated.
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nixon is elected for president
