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A year with so much events, like ...
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In this year the FDA approved the contraceptive pill to have a control of pregnancies.
This would cuase a sexual revolution in all the world ; this event would cause a sexual freedom for all the women, especially in this country. -
An US U-2 spy plane photographed Soviet-made nuclear missile bases on the island of Cuba, urging then-President John F. Kennedy to deploy naval units and fighter jets to block supplies from entering Cuba Soviet military. It was the moment of the Cold War in which it was closest to the direct confrontation between the USSR and the US Although the crisis was resolved
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Before the year of 1960´s the woman was limited to numerous aspect. For most, their destiny was to marry young, to be a wife and a mother.The American writer Betty Friedan published The Mystique of Womanhood in 1963, which describes the frustration and even despair of a generation of college-educated housewives who felt trapped and dissatisfied. This fact is considered as the beginning of the second wave of feminism
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"I have a dream", was an speach given by Martin Luther King from the steps of the monument to Lincon. King delivered his memorable speech to a crowd of approximately 250,000. A year later, the Civil Rights Act would be passed, serving as an opening to the nation's civil rights legislation.
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The president was preparing for his next presidential campaign. During his tour of downtown Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, throngs of excited people surrounded the streets to greet him. However, the screams of emotion would end in tears when around 12:30 p.m., a bullet ended his life. The killer was Lee Harvey Oswald
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Christiaan Barnard, a South African physician, had performed the first heart transplant on a person. The donor was Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old office worker who died after being run over. The donor was Louis Washkansky, a 53-year-old businessman evicted from an irreversible heart problem and acute diabetes. The operation was carried out by 30 surgeons under Barnard and lasted nine hours.
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The princces Diana died in a traffic accident in Paris in which her love partner, the Egyptian magnate Dodi al Fayed, also lost his life, which occurred when the couple were being chased by photojournalists. The immediate popular commotion joined the duel manifested by the main international personalities and gave Diana a special aura, which made her a character almost venerated by a good part of the British and even world population.
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An American Airlines Boeing plane, carrying 92 passengers, was taking off from Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles.At 08:45 he crashed into one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, in southern Manhattan.One minute before that takeoff and at the same Boston airport, another plane, also Boeing 767-300, but from the United Airlines company , with 65 passengers took off with the same destination: at 09:03 hours it collided with the South Tower.
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Following the 9/11 terrorist attack perpetrated by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda, the EE.UU. government of George W. Bush accused the Afghan Taliban of harboring the organization's leader, Bin Laden. The Kabul regime refused to hand over the Al-Qaeda leader, and on October 7, with unanimous international support and direct intervention by British and Australian forces, the United States began bombing Afghan territory.
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En las elecciones para elegir al nuevo presidente de los EE. UU. celebradas el 7 de noviembre de 2000 el candidato demócrata Al Gore, que había ocupado la vicepresidencia del país durante el mandato de Clinton, encontró al republicano George W. Bush
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The 2008 presidential elections not only meant the end of the Bush presidency, but also represented the possibility of a change with global repercussions since at the beginning of the traditional primary elections to choose the candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. world, for the first time in American history a woman Hillary Clinton and an African American Barack Obama were running for her for the Democratic Party.
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Michael Jackson, a singer who had his beginnings in the Jackson 5, a group of African Americans. Later he launched himself as a soloist becoming the most successful artist of all time. In 2009 he planned to say goodbye to the stage with his tour This Is It with 50 years Before this tour began in July, on June 25 he suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest caused by an overdose of propofol, causing a great impact in the media and the Internet
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In this year, a virus broke out throughout Europe, better known as covid, which over time spread to the entire United States.Today the United States is one of the countries with the most infections in the world, since there are people who only believe that this virus is a myth
