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The wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South. Became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement. -
The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic matters. -
Titled "The Flintstone Flyer" (P-2), it was actually the second Flintstones episode produced (after The Swimming Pool, P-1), but the first to air. It was aired on ABC. -
In a closely contested election, Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. Though he clearly won the electoral vote, Kennedy's received only 118,000 more votes than Nixon in this close election. -
Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. -
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into West Berlin, -
In New York's final game of the regular season, Yankees slugger Roger Maris hits his 61st home run, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball to hit more than 60 in a season. He tops former Yankees great Babe Ruth, who hit 60 home runs in 1927. -
About democratic ideals. It's about America's emergence from World War II as the beacon of those ideals and about our country's failure to be faithful to them. -
Dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. Investigators assume it was a overdose (suicide) -
He applied repeatedly to Ole Miss without success. Registered as the first African-American student at Ole Miss. Many riots and people blocking him from entering the campus. -
A direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The main idea of his speech was to showcase to the American public the degree of racial inequality in the United States, requesting them to abstain from discriminating on the basis of race. -
Assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally -
It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles. Were greeted by 3,000 screaming fans who caused a near riot when the boys stepped off their plane and onto American soil. -
73 million people gathered in front of their TV sets to see The Beatles' first live performance on U.S. soil. Ed made sure that their first live televised performance in the US would be on his show -
206,000 people in attendance. Held over 140 pavilions and 110 restaurants, representing 80 nations, 24 US states, and over 45 corporations with the goal and the final result of building exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. -
Lyndon B Johnson won with 61.1% of the popular vote. It was held on Tuesday, November 3rd 1964. -
Assassinated while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. Malcolm X was gunned down as his pregnant wife and four daughters took cover in the front row. -
Took place in The Watts neighborhood and the surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11-16 in 1965. There were 34 deaths and 1,032 injuries. -
Declared a "Schedule I" substance, legally designating that the drug has a "high potential for abuse" and is without any "currently accepted medical use in treatment." LSD was removed from legal circulation. -
First aired on September 8th 1966. It was cancelled after three seasons and 79 episodes. -
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 "Human Be-In" initiative, part of the duo's call for a collective expansion of consciousness. -
The Green Bay Packers smashed the Kansas City Chiefs with a 35-10 win. Winning the forst ever AFL-NFL World Championship later known as Super Bowl I at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles -
Ali received news he had been drafted to fight in Vietnam. When Ali arrived to be inducted in the United States Armed Forces, however, he refused, citing his religion forbade him from serving. -
This album spent 27 weeks at number 1 on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number 1 on Billboard Top LPs chart. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. President Johnson nominated Marshall in June 1967 to replace the retiring Justice, Tom Clark. -
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. Was an attempt encourage the United States to get back involved in the Vietnam War. -
Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that sent shock waves reverberating around the world. King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he and his associates were staying when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. -
He was pronounced dead at 1:44 am on June 6th, about 26 hours after he had been shot. He was shot shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -
Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1968, counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. -
He had over 300 electoral votes. His slogan was "NIxon's the one! Vote like your whole world depended on it bring us together." -
Series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that happened earlier that morning. The goal of this was to have Gay liberation and LGBT rights in the US. -
At 02:56 GMT Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. He stepped out of Apollo 11 lunar module and onto the surface of the moon called "Sea of Tranquilty. -
Held in August 15-18. On Max Yasgurs dairy farm in Bethel, New York 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock -
They played along with Jefferson Airplane, Flying Burrito Bros, Nash and Young, and Crosby. It was held in New York