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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Nixon vs. Kennedy. On TV it seemed Kennedy won; on the radio it seemed Nixon won.
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The first episode of one of the most well known TV shows ever.
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President John F Kennedy was elected.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft
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During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight, on 13 August 1961.
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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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The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the North American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society
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Marilyn Monroe died from a drug overdose.
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The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962; segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi
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A 13 day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union which was the closest we came to nuclear war.
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moviegoers get their first look–down the barrel of a gun–at the super-spy James Bond (codename: 007), the immortal character created by Ian Fleming in his now-famous series of novels and portrayed onscreen by the relatively unknown Scottish actor Sean Connery.
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Dr.King delivers one of the most famous speeches ever.
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JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas while riding in a car through the city.
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The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations, 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY.
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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.
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They made their first American appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
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Lyndon B Johnson was re-elected as president.
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He was about to deliver a speech when he got shot and killed.
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An African American driver was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving.
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The well known show was first created in 1966.
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LSD was declared illegal due to the bad consequences it had.
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The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
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The Packers defeated the Chiefs 35-10 to win the first Super Bowl.
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Ali refused military service due to religious reasons and was stripped of his heavyweight title.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles.
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The Monterrey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event.
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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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The largest military campaign of the Vietnam War. North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam.
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American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening.
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He was shot while giving a speech after the California primaries and died the next day while in the hospital
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Counter culture and Vietnam War protesters were at the convention.
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Richard Nixon was elected president
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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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Apollo 11 was the first Americans to land on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first to step foot on the moon.
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Charles Manson led a series of killings with the most famous one being on Sharon Tate.
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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock— was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of over 400,000.
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The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture-era rock concert
