1960's Virtual Timeline

By ethanpappa

  • SNCC formed

  • First televised Presidential debate

  • First airing of “The Flintstones”

  • President Kennedy is elected

  • Russians send the first man into space

  • Berlin Wall is constructed

  • Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth’s single season home run record

  • SDS releases its Port Huron statement

  • Marilyn Monroe dies

  • James Meredith registers at Ole Miss

  • “Dr. No” the first James Bond movie premiers

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech

  • John F Kennedy is assassinated

  • The Beatles arrive in the United States

  • The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan

  • New York World’s Fair begins

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

  • Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater

  • Malcolm X assassinated

  • Watts race riots

  • “Star Trek” TV show airs

  • LSD declared illegal by the U.S. government

  • First NFL Football Super Bowl

  • Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses military service

  • Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s album

  • Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court

  • Monterrey Music Festival held

  • San Francisco “Summer of Love” begins

    Not sure if this is when it really starts but it says summer of 1967 so when summer starts is my best bet

  • Woodstock concert

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

  • Robert Kennedy is assassinated

  • Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention

  • Richard Nixon is elected

  • Stonewall riots

  • American astronauts land on the moon

  • Manson family murders Sharon Tate

  • The Rolling Stones host the Altamont music festival

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