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1960's
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Birth Control Pill Gets FDA Approval
First oral contraceptive, Enovid, is licensed. -
JFK Inaugural Address
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Assasination of JFK
President Kennedy is assasinated in Texas. -
Civil Rights Act
Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. -
Berekely Free Speech Movement
Hundreds of students at the University of California, Berkeley spontaneously surround a police car as it attempts to remove a political activist. Roughly 3,000 students will join the 32-hour protest marking the beginning of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement -
First Reported Burning of Draft Cards
In protest to the Vietnam War, the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam- an anti war student body- publicly burns draft cards. -
LSD -Illegal in U.S,
The United States officially ban the hallucinogenic drug. -
Summer of Love
During the summer of 1967, as many as 100,000 people went to San Francisco, initiating a cultural and political shift. -
Landing on the Moon
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -
Woodstock
Three days of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll included an estimated 500,000 people. -
First Draft Lottery
First Vietnam War Draft -
Kent State Shootings
