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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics. -
For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates—John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon—is shown on television. -
It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960 to and was the first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television. -
Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon who was the Republican Nominee. -
On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space -
It was a wall built between East and West Berlin in order to separate the two -
Peoples hearts were broken, and a man's life was changed forever. Roger Maris will forever be known as the man that took Babe Ruth's record. -
The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society -
Marilyn Monroe sadly passed away due to a Barbiturate Overdose -
James Meredith is the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi. -
It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war and this is when the two superpowers cam closet to nuclear war. -
With the release of Dr. No, North American people get their first look at James Bond the immortal character created by Ian Fleming in his now-famous series of novels played by Sean Connery -
The I have a dream speech by Dr. King was very motivating for people of color to bring us out of segregation -
President John F. Kennedy was Assassinated while in his third year as president by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was in Parkland, Texas in a convertible car while he got shot. -
The Beatles landed at JFK airport in New York where they were greeted by thousands of fans doing their first live show 2 nights later -
Sullivan and his producers swiftly recognized that The Beatles were something monumental by the end of 1963. He made sure that their first live televised performance in the US would be on his show and the Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. -
The theme of the 1964 World's Fair in New York City was "Peace Through Understanding". 650 acres of pavilions, public spaces and displays from exhibitors around the world -
Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. -
The Watts Riots was a large series of riots that broke out August 11, 1965, in the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles -
In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets. -
30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. They came to take part in poets Allen Ginsberg and writer Gary Synder's "Human Be-In" initiative. -
The Green Bay Packers played the Kansas City Chiefs where the Packers won 35-10 -
When Ali arrived to be inducted in the United States Armed Forces, however, he refused, citing his religion forbade him from serving. The cost for his refusal would prove to be drastic: the stripping of his heavyweight title, a suspension from boxing, a $10,000 fine, and a five-year prison sentence -
it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LP's chart in the United States. -
President Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to replace the retiring Justice Tom Clark, who left the Court after his son Ramsey Clark became Attorney General. -
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
MLK was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray -
Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
On October 24, 1968, possession of LSD was made illegal in the United States. -
Republican Challenger Richard Nixon defeated Democratic Competitor Hubert Humphrey. -
Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1969 by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two humans to ever step foot on the moon and they did this during the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
The Stonewall riots were a series of demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. -
The Woodstock Concert began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start -
About 300,000 gathered at the Altamont Speedway in Tracy, California to see the Rolling Stones perform a free concert that was seen as a Woodstock West.