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The Senate and the House approve the federal-aid highway act which established 41,000 miles of interstate highway in the U.S -
The CIA, under the Kennedy administration, launches a mission in the southwestern coast of Cuba in an attempt to push Fidel Castro from power; the invasion failed and was later known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion -
Cuban Missile Crisis, a tense time where the U.S and the Soviet Union were involved in a thirteen-day standoff because of the unsettling presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba -
John F. Kennedy is shot in his car in downtown Dallas by a man standing on the sixth floor from a nearby building -
a foreign policy in which the U.S promised to keep all of its treaty commitments and a shield should nuclear power be threatened against the U.S, one of its allies, or a nation that is important to the U.S’s survival -
Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibited the following; discrimination of any type on the basis surrounding sale, rental, financing of house based on race, religion, national origin, sex, handicap and family status -
the U.S ratifies the 26th amendment, which lowered the legal voting age to 18 -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, and is arrested