1960s

By David Juric

  • Birth control pill was approved

  • Period: to

    1960s

  • lasers invented

  • Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile

  • Berlin wall built

  • Tsar Bomba

    the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded

  • Soviets launch first man into space

  • First James Bond Movie

  • Famous Escape From Alcatraz

  • First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech

  • JFK Assassinated

  • March on Washington

  • Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison

  • Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.

  • Beatles become popular in the US

  • The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

  • Miniskirt First Appears

  • Malcolm X Assassinated

  • National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded

  • Mass Draft Protests in U.S.

  • Two Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found

  • First Heart Transplant

  • First super bowl

  • Australian Prime minister disapears

  • Martin Luther King Jr. was Assisinated

  • RFK assisinated

  • Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery

  • Arpanet Created

  • The satanic bible is released

  • The Apollo 11 is launched