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SNCC
Students dedicated to nonviolent and direct action tactics -
Flinstones
A tv show about a cave people family called the Flinstones -
First televised presidential debate
Held between JFK and Nixon, Kennedy looked better on TV which helped him in his race to win election -
President Kennedy is elected
Kennedy Narrowly beats Richard Nixon in the Election. Kennedy was the first Catholic president -
First man in space
The Russians send Yuri Gagarin to be the first man in space and orbit Earth -
Berlin wall construction
Berlin wall is built to separate East and West Berlin -
Roger Maris
Maris breaks Babe Ruth's single season home run record -
Marilyn Monroe dies
She was found dead as she overdosed on drugs -
SDS releases Port Huron statement
The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society -
James Meredith and Ole Miss
Meredith is the first black male to enroll at an all white college -
Cuban Missile crisis
Confrontation between the US and Soviet Union during the cold war. Closest we have ever been to nuclear war -
Dr. No premiers
The first movie of the James Bond series premiers -
JFK assassinated
JFK was riding through Dallas Texas on a re-election campaign -
The Beatles come to America
The Beatles fly into JFK airport greeted by thousands of fans -
Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan
73 million people tuned into their TV's to see The Beatles perform live on TV -
New York World fair
A giant convention where people put up shops and restaurants from around the world -
LBJ defeats Barry Goldwater
LBJ defeats Barry Goldwater in the election of 1964 -
Malcolm X assassination
Malcolm X was assassinated in preparation to speak at an event -
Watts Race Riots
Happened just outside LA their goal was to end police discrimination towards African Americans -
Star Trek TV show airs
The iconic Spock makes his screen debut -
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. -
Superbowl 1
Firts AFL-NFL championship game between the Chiefs and Packers -
Muhammad Ali refuses draft
Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali and refuses to serve in Vietnam. Says it's against his religion -
Sgt. Peppers released
The album release in Britain on June 1 but not in the US -
Thurgood Marshall
First African American Male elected to the supreme court -
Nixon gets elected
Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in one of the closest elections ever -
Protests at the 1968 democratic convention
People protest who the democrats are going to put up for re-election -
Tet Offensive
An attack planned by the North Vietnamese to attack cities in South Vietnam and take over the capitol -
MLK assassination
Doctor King is assassinated at a hotel in Memphis Tennessee -
Robert Kennedy Assassination
Presidential candidate RFK was mortally wounded after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in LA -
MLK I have a dream
MLK gave a speech speaking on what he hopes the world looks like in the future -
LSD is illegal
LSD is made illegal in the US -
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 -
Moon Walk
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin piloted Apollo 11. This was the first time a human had ever steppe on the moon -
Woodstock Concert
A music fair held on a dairy farm in Bethel New York -
Altamont music festival
A counterculture rock concert held by the Rolling Stones