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SNCC's was set by Executive Secretary James Forman in 1961 as working full-time against the whole value system of this country and in 1963, they had a “program of developing, building and strengthening indigenous leadership; to advance there movement.
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The 1960 debates between the two candidates Americans for the first time could watch the debates on television.
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The first episode aired titled "The Flintstone Flyer" But was the Second one ever made.
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The 1960 United States presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee
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On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, The Soviet Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. Also became the first man to orbit the planet, accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
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It divided Germany from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was torn down
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New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season.
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he Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society the SDS
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August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles Found with empty bottles and from which she OD on
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Meredith registered as the first African-American student at Ole Miss on October 1, 1962.
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It's a spy film directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming.
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The October Crisis of 1962 or the Caribbean Crisis or the Missile Scare was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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It was a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for equal Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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John F Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
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Passed on August 7, 1964, by the U.S. Congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam. Sending the US into war with Vietnam
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John, Paul, George and Ringo arrived for their first U.S. visit with little idea what lay in store for them. Arrived at JFK airport in New York City on Feb. 7, 1964
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The Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show four times. They drew the largest TV audience ever in the United States they performed five song.
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The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York it was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time.
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on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee
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An American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. shot at his home while in his car.
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The riot spurred from an incident on August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a young African American was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman for suspicion of driving while intoxicated
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30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. They came to take part in counterculture poet Allen Ginsberg and writer Gary Synder's
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Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl. This was the first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship, later known as Super Bowl I, at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.
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boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army and is immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. he became a Muslim to avoid the draft.
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It was the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. it spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the US.
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It was International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16-17, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.
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President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark.
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It was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War.
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On April 4, 1968, Ray killed Martin Luther King Jr. with a single shot fired from his Remington rifle, while King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Sirhan Sirhan fired the shots on June 5, 1968 at the presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1967, counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups
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LSD is a hallucinogenic drug that was first synthesized a Swiss scientist in the 1930s. During the Cold War, the CIA conducted clandestine experiments with LSD.
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The 1968 United States presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey.
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The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid.
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On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.
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The Tate–LaBianca murders were perpetrated by members of the Charles Manson "Family" in Los Angeles, California who murdered five people on August 9–10, 1969, and two more the following evening
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Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Bethel Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
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Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969.
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Many were injured, numerous cars were stolen and then abandoned, and there was extensive property damage.
