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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics. -
Kennedy vs Nixon was the first debate recorded on t.v -
John F. Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, was elected President of the United States. -
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. -
It was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic. -
The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. -
Marilyn Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose late in the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962, at her 12305 Fifth Helena Drive home in Los Angeles, California. -
Roger Maris hits 60 home runs to break Babe Ruths record. -
An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. -
The release of Dr. No, North American moviegoers get their first look–down the barrel of a gun–at the super-spy James Bond -
MLK has one of the most famous speeches in history. -
Dr Kings iconic speech for a call of freedom and equality. -
Kennedy was assassinated in Texas out of a convertible. -
The Beatles rose to fame, and became one of the most popular bands. -
The Beatles went on the show and actually did a live performance -
New York World's Fair was a world's fair that held over 140 pavilions and 110 restaurants, representing 80 nations -
LSD was declared a "Schedule I" substance, legally designating that the drug has a "high potential for abuse. -
Democrat Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater by a wide margin. -
Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was assassinated. -
The McCone Commission identified the root causes of the riots to be high unemployment, poor schools, and related inferior living conditions that were endured by African Americans in Watts. -
Republican Richard Nixon wins the election by a wide margin. -
Star Trek what goes on to become a famous show first airs. -
The Summer of Love began on January 14, 1967, when some 30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. -
The Packers beat the Chiefs in the first ever SuperBowl. -
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. -
Muhammad Ali Convicted for Refusing the Vietnam Draft. In an era defined by endless war. -
President Johnson nominated Marshall in June 1967 to replace the retiring Justice Tom Clark, who left the Court after his son, Ramsey Clark, became Attorney General. -
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
James Earl ray shoots MLK. -
5 years after his brother Robert was assassinated as well. -
Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid. -
Commander Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.The crew that landed was Apollo 11. -
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock, was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel. -
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States.