60s history- Evan Krapohl

  • SNCC is Formed

  • First Presidential Debate

    The first debate between the presidents on tv and radio
  • Flintstones

    The Flintstones was a cartoon debuting its first episode
  • Election 1960

    Kennedy defeats Nixon
  • Space

    Soviets send the first man into space and lead in the race over the U.S>
  • Berlin Wall

    Soviets build a wall setting Berlin in half, west USA and east USSR
  • Home Run Record

    Yankees star Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's record for home runs in a season
  • Port Huron Statement

    SDS releases the Port Huron statement as a student activist movement
  • Marylin Monroe Death

    Marylin Monroe dies in her home of a drug overdose
  • James Meredith

    James Meredith signed at Ole Miss and First African-American admitted to a segregated University.
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    Cuban Missle Crisis

    The Soviet leader makes a deal with Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro and missiles are discovered by American spy planes, showed JFK and was able to negociate
  • Dr.No

    Dr.No the first James Bond movie to appear on the big screen
  • "I have a Dream"

    Martin Luther King makes his speech in Washington D.C.
  • Assassanation

    President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas
  • Beatles

    British band The Beatles arrive in the U.S.
  • Beatles and Ed Sullivan

    Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show
  • NYC Fair

    NYC begins its World's Fair
  • Election 1964

    President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas defeats Republican Arizona senator Barry Goldwater
  • Malcom X dead

    African-American Minister Malcolm X is assassinated
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    Watts Race Riots

    The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising,[1] took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965.
  • LSD Illegal

    The popular drug known as LSD becomes illegal in the U.S.
  • Star Trek

    Famous TV series Star Trek airs on CBS
  • Super Bowl 1

    The first NFL Super Bowl is held at the LA Memorial Coliseum where the NFL Green Bay Packers defeated the AFL Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
  • Ali Refuses Military Service

    Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses to serve in the military service because of the war in Vietnam
  • Beatles Album

    The Beatles release a new album called Sargent Peppers
  • Summer of Love

    San Francisco's Summer of Love begins
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall is the first African-American man to the Supreme Court
  • MLK Assassanation

    Martin Luther King a Civil Rights activist is assassinated
  • Kennedy Assassinated

    JFK's brother Robert the 1968 Democratic Nominee for President is Assassinated.
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    DNC Protests

    Protests and Riots break out during the Democratic National Convention which makes a lot of people switch to the Republican Party.
  • Tet Offensive Ends

    The longest Vietnam Battle Ends
  • Election 1968

    Republican Richard Nixon defeats Democrat Hubert Humphrey
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    Stonewall Riots

    The Stonewall riots was a series of demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, New York.
  • Moon Landing

    First Astronauts Land on the Moon before the Soviets
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    Woodstock

    Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock, was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock
  • Rolling Stones Host Festival

    Rolling Stones host Altamont Music Festival in Altamount California