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NATO !
NATO formed to make allegiances with US and democracy -
Warsaw Pact !
Warsaw Pact signed to make allegiance with USSR and communism -
Sputnik 1 !
Russian satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into orbit. It was the first manmade satellite to enter space. -
Explorer 1 !
US satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. It was designed by the US army under the direction of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. -
NASA created !
Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a public order establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or, NASA -
NASA starts !
NASA became fully operational -
Luna 2 !
Russian spacecraft, Luna 2, was launched into space. It was the first spacecraft to successfully reach the moon. -
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Top Songs &
Beatles: Day in the Life
June 1967
Ronettes: Be my Baby
August 1963
Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
October 1966
Shangri-Las: Leader of the Pack
1964
Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone
July 1965 -
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Top Books &
To Kill a Mockingbird-A young girl named Scout deals with the issues of racism while gaining knowledge, experience, strength, and courage, while her father, a lawyer, is persecuted for defending a falsely accused black man being charged with raping a white girl.
July 11, 1960
Catch 22-Catch-22 follows Captain John Yossarian in his exploits as a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.
November 11, 1961
The Outsiders- The fight between Greasers and Soc's- 1967 -
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Top Inventions &
ATM- 1969
Audio Cassette - 1962
Handheld calculator- 1967
Computer Mouse-1968
Barcode Scanner-1969 -
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Top Movies &
Mary Poppins-A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. 1964
The Sound of Music-A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. 1965
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly-A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. 1966
Breakfast at Tiffany’s-A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment -
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Top TV Shows &
Star Trek-Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise explore the Galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets- 1966
Brady Bunch-The misadventures of a large family united when two widowed people married- 1969
Doctor Who-Time and Space traveling adventures of a Gallifreyan Time Lord only known as the Doctor and his companions, traveling through time and space- 1963
Sesame Street-On a special inner city street, the inhabitants teach preschool subjects- 1969 -
Segregated Lunch Counter *
Four black students in a universty sat at a segregated lunch counter, they were refused service, but they were allowed to stay -
Executive Order 10925 *
Executive Order 10925 issued by President Kennedy. Prohibits bias of hiring people based on race, religion or nationality. -
Olympics %
The 1960s summer Olympics game attracted a recorded of 5,348 athletics from 83 different counties. This was the first Olympics covered by U.S. Television, CBS bought the rights for $394,000 -
Paralympic %
The first Paralympic were held in Rome, Italy. It featured 400 athletes from 23 countries -
Presidential Debate %
John f Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in a closely fought presidential debate -
CPR Invented %
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed by the American Heart Association -
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Freedom Riders *
Freedom Riders, black and white civil rights workers travel in buses around the south to push non-discrimination in interstate bus travel. -
Skating Team Plane Crash %
The entire 18- member U.S. Figure skating team was killed In a plane crash in Bergkampenhout, Belgium. They were on the way to the 1961 world figure skating championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion !
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba- A failed invasion of Cuba where Cuban refugees in the US with the help of the CIA tried to overthrow the government and failed. -
Yuri Gagarin !
Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Cosmonaut, became the first human to travel into space. He was launched on the spacecraft Vostok 1 and orbited the Earth before coming back down. -
Alan Shepard !
Alan Shepard, and American Astronaut, became the first American in space in the spacecraft Friendship 1. This vessel was lighter than the Soviet Vostok 1, and was originally tested on chimpanzees. -
Mission Apollo !
JFK makes the bold statement that by the end of the 1960s, the United States will send a man to the moon. This statement started the Apollo Program. -
Barack Obama Born %
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He would become later the 44th president of the United States -
Berlin Wall %!
The Berlin Wall was built to keep people from escaping Eastern Germany. This strengthens the hostility between the US and USSR. -
James Meredith *
First black student, James Meredith, to enroll at the University of Mississippi -
Cuban Missile Crisis !
US spies got photographs of the Russians preparing nuclear bombs in Cuba. JFK ordered a naval blockade around Cuba to prohibit any more supplies entering. It appeared as though a nuclear war was finally going to begin. However, both sided knew how devastating this would be, so the Us promised not to invade Cuba if the soviets dismantled the nuclear weapon. The crisis resolved peacefully. -
Valeri F. Bykovsky !
Valeri F. Bykovsky, Soviet Cosmonaut, stayed in space for 5 days -
Medgar Evers *
NAACP secretary, Medgar Evers, was murdered outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Byron La Beckwith was tried twice, but wasn’t convicted of murdering Evers until 30 years later. -
Valentina V. Tereshkova !
Valentina V. Tereshkova, Soviet, became the first woman in outer space -
I Have A Dream *
250,000 people join in the March on Washington. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have a Dream” speech. -
Bomb at Church *
Four young girls are killed after a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. -
JFK Assassination %
John f Kennedy was assassinated when he visited Dallas, Texas for a campaign swing -
24th Amendment *
24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which made it hard for black people to vote. -
Muhammed Ali %
Muhammed Ali knocked sonny Liston out to get the The Heavy Weight Boxing Title -
Mississippi Summer Project *
The Mississippi Summer Project is carried out to unify the voter registration in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 *
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits discrimination of all kinds. The “Jim Crow” laws in the South are abolished, compelling segregation of races in schools is now illegal. -
Steve Clark %
Steve Clark broke the 100 meter free syle swimming record at the summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan -
Nobel Peace Prize *
Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Malcolm X *
Malcolm X is assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week. -
Bloody Sunday *
Blacks began marching from Selma to Montgomery, to support voting rights. They were stopped by a police blockade and attacked with tear gas, bull whips, etc. The event was dubbed “Bloody Sunday.” -
Alexei Leonov !
Alexei Leonov, Soviet, became the first man to walk in space while protected in a body suit -
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Selma Montgomery March *
The Selma to Montgomery March, which was previously interrupted by Bloody Sunday, took place. Defended by National Guard. -
Sergey Korolyov !
Sergey Korolyov, the lead engineer of the Soviet space program, died. The Soviets began to lose faith in their space program. -
Packers %
The Green Bay Packers won the first Super Bowl ever in Los Angles, California -
Flash Fire !
A flash fire was started during a launch pad test for Apollo 1 in the United States. Three astronauts were killed. -
Loving vs. Virginia *
Loving vs. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage was unconstitutional. -
Thurgood Marshall *
Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Heart Transplant &
Heart Transplant-Lewis Washkansky and Christiaan Barnard -
MLK Assassinaton *
Martin Luther King is shot and killed outside his hotel room by James Earl Ray. -
Apollo 8 !
Apollo 8, an American spacecraft, was launched and successfully reached the Moon. It fully orbited the moon before returning to Earth. -
Apollo 11 Launch !
Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins, American Astronauts, took off into space on Apollo 11 -
Apollo 11 Landing !
Apollo 11 reached the moon. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and said into his radio, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The Americans had “won” The Space Race -
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World Series %
New York Mets won the World Series in only there 7th year in the league -
Handshake in Space !
Three American Astronauts and three Soviet Cosmonauts met in space and shook hands, signifying the end of the Cold War. -
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