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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. -
Important step in Presedential Elections. Between JFK and Nixon. The first ever debate you could watch from home. Showed the difference TV could make as people who watched it believed that Kennedy won and people who listened in on through the radio believed Nixon Won. -
John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. -
The Soviet Union achieve a clear triumph in the Space Race. They were able to send human life into space. -
Fences and Barriers are built to seal off entry points from East Berlin into the western part of Berlin -
Roger Maris breaks the infamous Babe Ruth's Home run record putting him up there in the top ranks of baseball players ever. -
A political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) -
The famous American Actress Marilyn Monroe dies. She was most famous for being in the comedy "Blonde Bombshell" -
James Meredith officially became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. This was frowned upon by many white Americans. -
A situation where the Soviet Union had placed Missiles in Cuba that were in close striking range of the U.S. This was a scare where the U.S. was in fear they would be under attack by the Soviet Union -
Dr. No' Launched James Bond and Changed Moviegoing Forever. Dr. No not only introduced the world to James Bond and founded the most successful movie franchise in history, it also helped change the cinematic world when it was released on Oct. 5, 1962. -
JFK was in a motorcade driving through Downtown Dallas Texas when he was shot mulitples times fatally wounding him. -
The infamous band at the time finally pay a visit to the United States -
The Beatles made their first live U.S. television appearance. More than 70 million Americans gathered around their televisions to watch four young men from Liverpool make history. -
A world's fair that 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. -
Johnson beat Goldwater in the general election, winning over 61% of the popular vote, the highest percentage since the popular vote first became widespread in 1824. Johnson became the only Democrat between 1944 and 1976 to win a majority of the popular vote. -
The very famous representative of the general African America population in the US was assasinated by Thomas Hagan -
A series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighbourhoods of South-Central Los Angeles -
The popular drug at the time LSD is found to be more dangerous than healthy for the public so the government decided to ban it -
Star Trek's contributions to television history include giving women jobs of respect, most notably through the casting of Nichelle Nichols, a black actress. This was a very popular show about aliens and non-realistic/futuristic things. -
A social phenomenon 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. -
The first ever Super Bowl took place and since the famous event is played every year. -
Ali refused, citing his religion forbade him from serving. The cost for his refusal would prove to be drastic: the stripping of his heavyweight title, a suspension from boxing, a $10,000 fine, and a five-year prison sentence. -
The first Black person to ever serve as a Supreme Court Justice. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray. -
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated JFK's brother, Robert Kennedy on this day. -
A series of protest activities against the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
Richard Nixon is elected President of the U.S. -
Coordinated series of attacks by the Vietcong and North Viatnamese on dozens of cities in South Vietnam completely surprising South Vietnam and the U.S. -
Millions of people gathered to watch America, the first country to reach the moon for the first time. Two U.S. Atronauts were the first people to ever be on the moon. They beat the Soviet Union to it -
A very famous concert where a total 400,000 people came to watch many different play music over the span of 3 days. -
About 300,000 gathered at the Altamont Speedway in Tracy, California to see the Rolling Stones perform a free concert that was seen as a 'Woodstock West. ' -
The first major rock 'n' roll album to be released without a designated single.