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New York World's Fair opened in what is now Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in the borough of Queens. -
Dr.King's speech has been heard all throughout the US and onwards, a push towards collaboration, no matter what your skin color looks like. -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics. -
This was a huge step for political campaigning and completely altered elections for all future potential presidents. -
The Flinstone's premiered with their first episode, " The Flinstone Flyer". -
A closely contested race that Kennedy ultimately overtook from the incumbent, Nixon. -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space -
The construction of the Berlin Wall set a physical divide that represented the ideological divide between either side of the wall, the reason for the Cold War. -
New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris hit his 60th home run of the Major League Baseball season, tying Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. -
The 25,700-word statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). -
She sadly passed away in her home in LA from an overdose. -
James Meredith was the first black man to be admitted to Ole Miss -
When it initially premiered at the London Pavillion, no one predicted that "Dr.No" would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. -
Russia began to move the final pieces for their missiles to Cuba, JFK had to act fast to ensure communist threat wasn’t at America’s doorstep. -
JFK is assassinated while riding through a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
The Beatles were internationally popular, originating from England, they visited one of their biggest fan bases, the US. -
The Beatles made their first live U.S. television appearance, and more than 70 million Americans tuned in. -
Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee -
Malcolm X, a religious and civil rights leader, was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. -
The riots were fighting to end mistreatment by the police and to end discrimination in housing, employment, and schooling systems -
The governors of Nevada and California each signed bills into law on May 30, 1966, that make them the first two American states to outlaw the manufacture, sale, and possession of the drug -
Star Trek is a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. -
The Green Bay Packers destroyed the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 ending. -
Newsweek prints an article titled, “Dropouts on a Mission”, this was followed by other decent media coverage of San Francisco’s blossoming “Summer of Love”. -
Muhammad Ali refuses to serve, citing his religion as foreboding him to fight. This led to the stripping of his heavyweight title, a suspension from boxing, a $10,000 fine, and a five-year prison sentence. -
This was the first Beatles album to have exactly the same track listings in the UK and the US. -
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court by Lyndon B. Johnson, to replace Tom C. Clark’s newly vacated seat. -
US and South Vietnamese forces suffered heavy losses from communist enemies during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. -
Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his motel room, he was a great civil rights leader. -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the California presidential primary. -
These were a series of protest activities against the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
Nixon narrowly wins the president, running as a Republican. -
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first two men to ever land on the moon. They were American astronauts, which mattered as this was in the midst of US’s Cold War with Russia. -
These riots were in response to police officers raiding gay bars, trying criminalize people for who they love -
More than 400,000 people watched 32 acts over the course of the " Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". -
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. '