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SNCC formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. -
First televised Presidential debate
1960, Kennedy v. Nixon. -
First airing of “The Flintstones”
the first airing of the TV show The Flinstones -
President Kennedy is elected
Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee in the 1960 election. -
Russians send the first man into space
aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space -
Berlin Wall is constructed
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, and the number of checkpoints in which Westerners could cross the border was drastically reduced. -
Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth’s single season home run record
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. -
SDS releases its Port Huron statement
t was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers retreat outside of Port Huron, Michigan , for the group's first national convention. -
Marilyn Monroe dies
Marilyn Monroe died in what looked like a barbiturate overdose. -
James Meredith registers at Ole Miss
James Meredith officially became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi -
“Dr. No” the first James Bond movie premiers
starred by James bond -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech
a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
John F Kennedy is assassinated
Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie when he was fatally shot from a nearby building by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan
America tuned in to CBS and The Ed Sullivan Show. But this night was different. 73 million people gathered in front their TV sets to see The Beatles' first live performance on U.S. soil. -
The Beatles arrive in the United States
Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy airport was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No. 1 U.S. hit six days before -
New York World’s Fair begins
New York World's Fair was a world's fair that held over 140 pavilions and 110 restaurants -
Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater
Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, in a landslide -
Malcolm X assassinated
As Malcolm X and his bodyguards tried to quell the disturbance, a man rushed forward and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun and two other men charged the stage firing semi-automatic handguns. -
stonewall riots
a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours -
Watts race riots
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising,took place in the Watts neighborhood -
“Star Trek” TV show airs
Star Trek is an American science-fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) -
San Francisco “Summer of Love” begins
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 -
First NFL Football Super Bowl
the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) smash the American Football League (AFL)'s Kansas City Chiefs, -
Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses military service
Ali arrived to be inducted in the United States Armed Forces, however, he 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 -
Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
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. -
LSD declared illegal by the U.S. government
LSD was 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. -
Tet offensive
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
After leaving the podium and exiting through a kitchen hallway, he was mortally wounded by multiple shots fired from a handgun. Kennedy died in the Good Samaritan Hospital 26 hours later. The shooter was 24-year-old, Sirhan Sirhan. -
Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
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. -
Richard Nixon is elected
he made another run for the presidency and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in a close contest. -
American astronauts land on the moon
American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. -
Woodstock concert
a music festival on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock -
The Rolling Stones host the Altamont music festival
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. '