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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics -
The first presidential campaign debate is televised in 1960 -
This was the first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television -
Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee -
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space -
German soldiers lay down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin -
Yankees slugger Roger Maris hits his 61st home run, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball to hit more than 60 in a season -
Proposed a new form of “participatory democracy” to rescue modern society from destructive militarism and cultural alienation -
Famous American actress passes away due to an overdose of pills -
An African American attempts and becomes the first black man to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi -
A one-month, four-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
The world premiere of a 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young -
A famous public speech made by Martin Luther King Jr. that called for civil and economic rights for blacks, and to end racism in the United States -
JFK is shot with a sniper rifle by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling through Dallas, Texas -
The Beatles arrive at John F Kennedy airport in New York, greeted by thousands of fans -
73 million people gathered in front their TV sets to see The Beatles' first live performance on U.S. soil -
A Fair in New York opens and is remembered as a cultural highlight of mid-twentieth century America -
Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater -
Malcolm X was gunned down as his pregnant wife and four daughters took cover in the front row -
A series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African Americans -
An American science-fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship that grows very popular -
30,000 people gather in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to take part in a counterculture poet by Allen Ginsberg and Gary Synder -
The first annual playoff championship game of the NFL between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs -
Famous boxer Muhammed Ali refuses service, citing his religion forbade him from serving -
The Beatles release their eighth album that becomes the "summer of love" -
First American Supreme Court Justice nominated to serve the United States -
LSD was declared a "Schedule I" substance, legally designating that the drug has a "high potential for abuse" and is without any "currently accepted medical use in treatment." -
A major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee -
Shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan while running for president -
In 1968, counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention -
Richard Nixon wins the election over Hubert Humphrey and becomes president -
A series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid -
American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become the first humans ever to land on the moon -
A music festival held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York -
300,000 gathered at the Altamont Speedway in Tracy, California to see the Rolling Stones perform a free concert