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SNCC formed
A United States political organization formed by Black college students dedicated to overturning segregation in the South and giving young Blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movement in America. -
First televised Presidential debate
American viewers watched the first of four televised presidential debates between candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. -
First airing of “The Flintstones”
A prime time schedule, the first such instance for an animated series. The continuing popularity of The Flintstones rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting. -
President Kennedy is Elected
John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. -
Russians send the first man into space
On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft -
Berlin Wall is contructed
German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth’s single season home run record
New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season. -
SDS releases its Port Huron statement
A Political manifesto of the North American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. -
Marilyn Monroe dies
Dies at her home from a drug overdose. -
James Meredith registers at Ole Miss
James became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi or any segregated school. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment. -
“Dr. No” the first James Bond movie premiers.
British spy film, starring Sean Connery, with Ursula Andress and Joseph Wiseman, filmed in Jamaica and England. It is the first James Bond film. -
Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom for the colored people. -
John F. Kennedy Assassinated
35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
Beatles arrive in America
The Beatles' first visit to the United States came at a time of great popularity in Britain. The band's UK commercial breakthrough, in late 1962, had been followed by a year of successful concerts and tours. -
The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan
The Beatles, with their made their first American television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. A record setting 73 million people tuned in. -
New York World’s Fair begins
New York World's Fair held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for 80 nations 24 US states, and over 45 corporations to build exhibits or attractions at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater
Johnson's landslide victory coincided with the defeat of many conservative Republican Congressmen, which aided the later passage of several Great Society programs. -
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
Watts race riots
The riot spurred from an incident on August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a young African American motorist, was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. -
“Star Trek” TV show airs
The show tells the tale of the crew of the starship Enterprise and its five-year mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before." -
LSD declared illegal by the U.S. government
LSD becomes illegal in the state of California and then the whole country. -
San Francisco "Summer of Love" Begins
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. -
First NFL football Superbowl
The Green Bay Packers lead by Bart Starr beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. -
Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses military service
Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army and is immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. Ali, a Muslim, cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service. -
Beatles release Sgt.Peppers Album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles. -
Monterrey Music Festival held
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of Supreme Court. -
Tet Offensive
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet-Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated.
Was a american clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Robert Kennedy Assassinated
Fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election. -
Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon is elected
Former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn. -
American Astronauts land on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle. -
Manson family murders Sharon Tate
The Tate murders were a series of killings conducted by members of the Manson Family which claimed the lives of five people, one of them pregnant. -
Woodstock Concert
Was a music festival in the United States which attracted over 400,000 Hippies on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of southern New York State, -
The Rolling Stones host the Altamont music festival
Four Die at Rolling Stones' Altamont Concert. A concertgoer Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by a Hells Angel biker as he approached the stage with a gun. Three others at the Altamont Free Concert were killed in accidents.
