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This was the day that shook the world.The Cold War ‘officially’ ended when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met with US president George Bush.
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Cold War began in 1947 and ended in 1991
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With the Soviet Sputnik success, U.S. space engineers were under pressure not just to catch up but to take the lead. Less than 5 months later, von Braun and his team successfully launched America's first spacecraft, the satellite Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958. Several months after that, Congress authorized the formation of an agency devoted to spaceflight.
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9 african american students enter an all-white high school called Central High.
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The American flag was debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after Hawaii comes into the union in 1959.
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The hit cinema movie, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" comes out in 1961 and is about a young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.
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John F. Kennedy wins the presidential election and become president of the United States.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency ends (1953-1961) and John F. Kennedy comes into office.
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The entire United States figure skating team is killed in a plane crash near Brussels, Belgium on their way to the World Championships. 73 people were killed
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Yuri Gagarin made history on April 12, 1961 when he became both the first person in the world to enter space and the first person to orbit the Earth.
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In 1961 workers quickly constructed a barrier made of concrete posts and barbed wire along the border of Berlin.
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The Beach Boys first hit single called "Surfin" came out in December, 1961.
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The first escape from the jailcell called Alcatraz in San Francisco, California.
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The very first computer video game, called Spacewar, was invented in 1962 by Steve Russel
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Marilyn Monroe announced dead on August 5, 1962 in Brentwood, Los Angelos, California
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Betty Friedan published her book The Feminine Mystique, in which she claimed that the problem that has no name burst like a boil through the image of the happy American housewife
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The last 27 prisoners are removed from the prison in San Francisco, California by Robert F. Kennedy and the prison is closed.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C
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The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. for Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Over 200,000 people participated in the march for equal rights.
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John F. Kennedy was assasinated bye Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
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In 1966, the National Organization for Women was formed and also in 1968, feminists protested at the Miss America contest in Atlantic City, arguing that the pageant was sexist.
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Another hit cinema movie called "Mary Poopins" is released in 1964 and is about a magic nanny who comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family.
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The 24th amendment was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. This amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned not hiring on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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After JFK assasination, Lydon B. Johnson wins his first presidential election over Barry M. Goldwater
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The song "My Girl" single was released by The Temptations
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This year ends the post-war Baby Boom (1946-1964)
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Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in Major League Baseball against the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium by retiring 27 consecutive batters without allowing any to reach first base, became the sixth pitcher of the modern era, eighth overall, to throw a perfect game.
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The very first handheld calculator was invented
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Thurgood Marshall is brought into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice.
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Ford's Theatre, the place where the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln took place, reopens to the public in Washington D.C.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray
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Presidential candidate and the Democratic Senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy, is shot at a campaign victory celebration in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan.
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The New York Jets win Super Bowl III over the Baltimore Colts. This is the first victory in the National Football League for a former American Football League team.
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Neil Armstrong is the first man ever to step foot on the moon.
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The hit show The Brady Bunch came out in 1969
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The first release date of the Cinema Movie Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
