1960S timeline

  • Moscow anounces putting first man around the earth

  • USSR launches a hydrogen bomb, biggest explosion recorded in history

  • Pope John Paul XXII opens second Vatican council

  • Australia's involvment in vietnam war

  • President J.F.K was assinated

  • Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 other blacks arrested in Selma

  • Racial violence and protests in Detroit

  • Menzies retires after 16 years of being a Prime Minister

  • Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader,is mudered in memphis

  • Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins—take man's first walk on moon