60's and 70's Sports and Entertainment Marketing Timeline

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    Timeline

  • First US Troops arrive in Vietnam

  • JFK Space Speech at Rice University

  • JFK Assassinated

  • Cassius Clay (aka Muhammad Ali) becomes Heavyweight Boxing Champion

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Texas Western University Miners win NCAA Basketball Championship against heavily favored Kentucky

  • Boston Celtics win 9th straight NBA Title

  • First Super Bowl

  • NBA Adds 2 teams, Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns

  • Neil Armstrong becomes first man on the moon

  • "Miracle Mets" win World Series

  • Terrorists attack Israeli Atheletes at Summer Olympic Games

  • Philidelphia 76ers have worst season in basketball history, going 9-73

  • Jack Nicklaus wins PGA Championship along with 6 other titles that year

  • Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's all time homerun record