1960s

  • Soviet Union shot down a American spy plan

    Soviet Union shot down a American spy plan

    The Soviet Union shot down a American spy pane and captured Gary powers.
  • Harper Lee publishes her novel killing a marking bird

    Harper Lee publishes her novel killing a marking bird

    To kill a mockingbird is a African American navels written by Harper Lee and it was instantly successful. It was mostly read in high school and middle schools
  • John F Kennedy became president

    John F Kennedy became president

    John F Kennedy won the the election with one of the smallest margin in history (113,000) out of 68.3 million.
  • Yurt Gawain did the first orbit around the earth

    Yurt Gawain did the first orbit around the earth

    Russian Astronaut Yuri Gagarin made the first orbit around the around the earth with his Vostok 1 space craft the inter mission took 108 minutes
  • telstar Was launched the first working communication satellite

    telstar Was launched the first working communication satellite

    Telstar 1 made by America was lashed into space and was the first starlit that helped with Communication.
  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis

    USSR Where building missile bases in Cuba Kennedy orders Cuban blockade lifts blockade once Russians bakes down
  • Robert Lee Frost died

    Robert Lee Frost died

    Poet Robert Lee Frost died at the age of 88years in Boston MA he rote the book outsiders.
  • President Kennedy was killed

    President Kennedy was killed

    President Kennedy was assassinated in Parkland Health Dallas, TX. His last work where no u can not after the First Lady of Texes told him u cant say Dallas hates you.
  • Civil rights act signed

    Civil rights act signed

    The civil rights act is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
  • Tokyo Olympics

    Tokyo Olympics

    It was the first Olympics to use computers to keep statistics. Yoshinoi Sakai who was born in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945
  • Malcom X was assassinated

    Malcom X was assassinated

    Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the black community he was assassinated at Audubon Ballroom
  • NASA Marin 4 flew by mars

    NASA Marin 4 flew by mars

    One of the great successes of the early American space program, the Mariner 4 mission journeyed to Mars and took the first photos of another planet from space.
  • Bobbi Gibbi Gibb became the first woman and African American to run the Boston marathon

    Bobbi Gibbi Gibb became the first woman and African American to run the Boston marathon

    Roberta Gibb became the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon at a time when women were prohibited from doing so because they were considered “physiologically incapable.
  • An Artificial heart was put into Marcel Derudder

    An Artificial heart was put into Marcel Derudder

    An artificial heart is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a Houston, Texas hospital.
  • Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

    Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

    The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module
  • Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty.

    Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty.

    The Outer Space Treaty was opened for signature in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union entered into force on 10 October 1967. As of February 2021, 111 countries are parties to the treaty, while another 23 have signed the treaty but have not completed ratification.
  • Prague Spring Stared

    Prague Spring Stared

    The Prague Spring had proved that the Soviet Union was not willing to even contemplate any member of the Warsaw Pact leaving it. The tanks that rolled through the streets of Prague reaffirmed to the West that the people of Eastern Europe were oppressed and denied the democracy that existed in Western Europe.
  • Prague spring ended

    Prague spring ended

    The Prague Spring ended with a Soviet invasion, the removal of Alexander Dubček as party leader and an end to reform within Czechoslovakia. The first signs that all was not well in Czechoslovakia occurred in May 1966 when there were complaints that the Soviet Union was exploiting the people.
  • Neil Armstrong landed on the moon

    Neil Armstrong landed on the moon

    Neil Armstrong was the first person to step onto to moon his first word before he stepped on to the moon where it’s is one small step for man and one giant Leap for man kind