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In April 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed at Shaw University. The organization became one of the famous civil rights movements during the 1960's.
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On September 30, 1960, the first episode of the children's show, "The Flintstones" aired on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera and ran for 6 seasons.
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John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the first Catholic to become president.
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On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union sent Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin into space, where he was also the first man to orbit the Earth.
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Constructed by the German Democratic Republic the Wall cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin. Between 1961 and 1989 the Wall prevented almost all such emigration.
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On October 1, 1961, Yankees member Roger Maris Broke Babe Ruth's record for hitting over 60 home runs in a single season record from 1927.
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On June 15, 1962, Tom Hayden, a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), wrote the Port Huron Statement, a political manifesto.
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Marilyn Monroe was found dead home in Los Angeles of a barbiturate overdose. She was a major sex symbol and one of the most popular Hollywood stars during the 1950s and early 1960s. She was a top-billed actress for a decade.
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The Ole Miss riot of 1962, was fought between Southern segregationists and federal and state forces; segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran
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On October 5, 1962, "Dr. No", the first of many James Bond movies, was released in theaters. The movie was directed by Terence Young and stared Sean Connery.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
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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. The Beatles, from left to right, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, make a windswept arrival at JFK airport in New York City
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On April 22, 1964, the New York World's Fair was held with about 51,000,000 visitors, and stayed open for 6 months. The following year, the fair was opened around the same time until October 17.
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an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved either one or two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
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On November 3, 1964, Lyndon B Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater and became the 36th President of the United States. The democratic nominee won the popular vote with 61.1%.
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On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City, NY by 3 members of the Nation of Islam.
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On August 11, 1965, the Watts race riots began and lasted for 5 days in Los Angeles, California. The riots were reported to have allegedly started because of racism with police, and the result of the riots were 34 deaths and about a thousand injuries.
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On September 8, 1966, the original "Star Trek" airs on NBC and continues for three seasons of 79 episodes.
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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 first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The National Football League champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35–10.
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On April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali, a famous boxer, refused military service because he felt uncomfortable as a Muslim, going to fight in Vietnam. Due to his controversial decision, he 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. It was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US
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On June 16, 1967, the Monterrey Music Festival was held for 3 days in Monterey, California. About 25,000 to 90,000 people were estimated to have attended, and the genres performed varied from pop and folk to different kinds of rock.
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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. After a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11.
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On January 20, 1968, famous actress Sharon Tate and four others were found murdered in her home. They were murdered by Tex Watson, a member of the Manson Family, under the demand of Charles Manson.
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One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam.
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Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,Tennessee, He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
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Kneeling beside him is a 17-year-old busboy who was shaking Kennedy's hand when Sirhan Sirhan fired the shots. On June 5, 1968, 42-year-old presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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On August 23 - 28, 1968, at Grant Park, Chicago, and for eighth days people protested. Violence broke out and over 500 protesters were injured.
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Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was a popular drug during the 60's that caused sensations and hallucinations.On October 24, 1968, LSD was declared illegal by the United States government.
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The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, 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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On June 28, 1969, members of the LGBT community reacted violently to a police raid that occurred earlier that morning, in Manhattan, New York City.
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A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.
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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins are the first people to step on the moon. America becomes the first country to successfully send people to the moon, and Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon.
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The Woodstock Music & Art Faith was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
