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Rosa Parks was Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to another passenger. -
Interstate Highway System Created
Eisenhower signs the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, establishing the Interstate Highway System, one of the nation's largest public works projects. -
JFK elected as presidency
John F. Kennedy is elected as the nation's youngest president. Eisenhower is dismayed by Kennedy's loss in a tight race to his former running partner Richard Nixon. -
President Kennedy Assassination
On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while traveling in a presidential motorcade past Dealey Plaza, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated. -
US Marines join or enter the Vietnam War
The US Marines arrived in Da Nang as the first wave of combat soldiers to enter South Vietnam, joining the 25,000 US military advisers already on the ground. -
Martin Luther King Jr Assassination
At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon
Neil Armstrong, an American astronaut, became the first person to walk on the Moon at 02:56 GMT on July 21, 1969. In the 'Sea of Tranquility,' he stepped out of the Apollo 11 lunar module and onto the Moon's surface. -
The 26th Amendment was passed
The 26th amendment, passed by Congress on March 23, 1971, and ratified on July 1, 1971, gave American citizens aged eighteen and up the right to vote.