1955-1975 By craigwallace May 31, 1955 All Schools have to Interate Jul 17, 1955 Disneyland Opens Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat Jun 29, 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act Signed Made Interstates Possible Sep 25, 1956 Transatlantic Telephone Cable Begins Operation Nov 6, 1956 Eisenhower Re-Elected 1957 Gordan Gould Invented the Laser Mar 13, 1957 Jimmy Hoffa Arrested Bribery Charge Dec 6, 1957 First Attempt to Launch a Satellite Jan 31, 1958 Exployer 1 Launched Successfully Apr 17, 1958 First World Fair Since WWII Dec 10, 1958 Jet Passenger Planes Introduced Jan 3, 1959 Alaska Admitted as a State Feb 22, 1959 First Running of the Daytona 500 Aug 21, 1959 Hawaii Admitted as a State Apr 1, 1960 Tiros I Lauched First Weahter Satellite Apr 13, 1960 Transat 1-b Launched First Navigation Satellite May 1, 1960 American U-2 Shot Down Gary Powers was arrested by the russians Jul 4, 1960 Fifty Star Flag Debuted Nov 8, 1960 John F. Kennedy Elected Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs May 5, 1961 First Manned Sub-Orbital Space Flight Aug 12, 1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall Feb 20, 1962 John Glenn Becomes the First Person In Orbit Oct 14, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins Mar 21, 1963 Alcatraz Closed Jul 25, 1963 Agreement for no Nuclear Testing Above Ground Aug 28, 1963 I Have a Dream Speech Nov 22, 1963 JFK Assasanated Nov 22, 1963 Lyndon B Johnson Becomes President Feb 25, 1964 Muhammad Ali Wins the Heavyweight Chapionship Nov 3, 1964 Lyndon B Johnson Re-Elected Aug 6, 1965 Voting Act of 1965 Signed Jul 1, 1966 Medicare Begins Jan 15, 1967 First Super Bowl Jan 27, 1967 Outer Space Treaty Signed Oct 2, 1967 First Black Supreme Court Justice Apr 4, 1968 MLK Assassinated Nov 5, 1968 Richard Nixon Elected Jul 20, 1969 First Man Set Foot on the Moon Nov 21, 1969 Internet Invented Apr 1, 1970 1970 Census Counts 200 Million People Jan 2, 1971 Ban on Television Cigarette Advertisements Jun 30, 1971 26th Amendment Added Sep 17, 1971 Invention of the Microprocessor Oct 1, 1971 Disney World Opens Jun 17, 1972 Watergate Begins Nov 7, 1972 Richard Nixon Re-Elected Jan 22, 1973 Roe vs. Wade Jun 9, 1973 Secretariat Wins the Triple Crown Oct 19, 1973 Arab Oil Embargo Mar 18, 1974 Arab Oil Embargo Ends Aug 9, 1974 Richard Nixon Resigned Aug 9, 1974 Gerald Ford Became President Jan 6, 1975 Wheel of Fortune Premiers