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Sit Ins: By having White and African American college students eating together in a segregated restaurant or dinner, the effort made the places desegregate and eventually unsegregated many regions of the South.
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The Brothers Four- Greenfield- This was an American top hit song and many Americans listened to this song and loved it.
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France tests their first atomic bomb- France successfully tests their first atomic weapon, making them the 4th country to achieve atomic weapons capabilities. Named Gerboise Bleue
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Cathy's Clown - a popular song, written and recorded by The Everly Brothers, in which an unnamed narrator informs Cathy that he doesn't want her love anymore.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho released- This was a Horror-Thriller that was inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin Murder and Grave Robber Ed
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Sino-Soviet Split - China is angered by being treated as a “junior partner” to the USSR, thus splitting and saying their version of communism is better, adding a third major power to the Cold War.
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Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
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The Andy Griffith Show-The American sitcom first televised on CBS. It was ranked the 9th best tv show by Tv Guide.
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JFK elected
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Exodus-a 1960 epic war film made by Alpha and Carlyle Productions and distributed by United Artists. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, the film was based on the 1958 novel Exodus, by Leon Uris.
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Severing of Relations with Cuba- After Cuba declares it is communist, President Dwight D Eisenhower closes the US embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations.
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Marilyn Monroe- Movie- "Misfits"
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Peace Corps - Created by President Kennedy. World wide provider of help.
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First man in space - Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space. The US is pushed to get someone into space as they would not allow the USSR to beat them on the next task.
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The twelfth European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1961, is won by Soviet Union.
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First American in Space - Alan B. Shepard becomes the first man in space.
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The Berlin Wall - The construction of the Berlin Wall is completed, separating the East and West of Germany. If anyone were to try and get from the east side to the west side of germany, they would be shot and killed.
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Elvis Presley- Can’t help falling in love
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World Series – New York Yankees win 4 games to 1 over the Cincinnati Reds. The series MVP is Whitey Ford of the Yankees.
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Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are selected for the Baseball Hall of Fame in their first years of eligibility.
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Space war - First computer video game.
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A man on the Moon-Kennedy challenges the US to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, thus starting the Apollo Program and amplifying the Space Race.
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Compact Cassette - Koninklijke Philips N.V. created the Compact Cassette. It recorded music onto it and then would play it over.
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The New Nine- Neil Armstrong and the others land on the Moon
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Cuban missile crisis-It was a 13 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side.
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The Feminine Mystique - It is a womens rights novel.
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Equal Pay Act - Illegal to pay a women less than a man.
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Martin Luther King- I Had a Dream Speech
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March on Washington
A. Philip Randolph had planned a march to Washington to protest against the discrimination in defense facilities and forced Roosevelt to issue the Executive Order 8802 barring racial discrimination and created an agency to oversee the situation. -
Freddie and the Dreamers- You were made for me
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JFK assassinated- JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
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Malcolm X joins the movement: Malcolm X, the national representative for the Nation of Islam, has made an offer to collaborate with any civil rights program that has accepted self defense and philosophy of Black Nationalism.
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Death of Ken Hubbs (22), Chicago Cubs player, in an air crash just before the season began
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Civil Rights Act of 1964: Proposed by John F Kennedy, President Johnson has signed this act that banned discrimination based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin” in employment practices and public accommodation.
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Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens- It was the Japanese bullet train, however, that introduced modern high-speed rail services to the world
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Malcolm X Assassinated- NYC, New York
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First American spacewalk- Ed White performs the first American spacewalk.
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Bob Dylan- Like a rolling Stone
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Handheld calculator - An electronic calculator is a small and portable device used to do math functions
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National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
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Men's combined champion: Jean-Claude Killy, France
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Compact disc - Used to download data onto it. Used to hold and store data also.
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly- This is an Italian Spaghetti Western movie. The movie is about three Gunslingers fighting to find the fortune from the Confederate Gold.
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Apollo 1 Fire- Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when the Apollo 1 spacecraft catches fire.
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Muhammad Ali was stripped of his World Heavyweight Champion titles and was banned from boxing by the various commissions for his refusal to be inducted into the United States Army.
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Six-Day War in the Middle East
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Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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Executive Order 11375 - Companies must take “active measures” to make sure that women get the same educational and employment opportunities as white men.
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Death of Robert Carmody (29), American Boxer, was killed in action at the Vietnam War.
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The Tet offencive is launched by the Vietnamese. Tet is a Vietnamese holiday
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Planet of the Apes-The film tells the story of an astronaut crew who crash-land on a strange planet in the distant future.
Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Spy Ship USS Pueblo Captured
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Un-Sexist Ads - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission stated that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers were illegal.
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Beatles- "Hey Jude"
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First Man on the Moon- Neil Armstrong takes the first steps on the moon and says “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
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