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The first debate between the presidents on tv and radio
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The Flintstones was a cartoon debuting its first episode
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Kennedy defeats Nixon
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Soviets send the first man into space and lead in the race over the U.S>
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Soviets build a wall setting Berlin in half, west USA and east USSR
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Yankees star Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's record for home runs in a season
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SDS releases the Port Huron statement as a student activist movement
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Marylin Monroe dies in her home of a drug overdose
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James Meredith signed at Ole Miss and First African-American admitted to a segregated University.
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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
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Dr.No the first James Bond movie to appear on the big screen
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Martin Luther King makes his speech in Washington D.C.
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas
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British band The Beatles arrive in the U.S.
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Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show
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NYC begins its World's Fair
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President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas defeats Republican Arizona senator Barry Goldwater
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African-American Minister Malcolm X is assassinated
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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.
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The popular drug known as LSD becomes illegal in the U.S.
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Famous TV series Star Trek airs on CBS
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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
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Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses to serve in the military service because of the war in Vietnam
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The Beatles release a new album called Sargent Peppers
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San Francisco's Summer of Love begins
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Thurgood Marshall is the first African-American man to the Supreme Court
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Martin Luther King a Civil Rights activist is assassinated
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JFK's brother Robert the 1968 Democratic Nominee for President is Assassinated.
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Protests and Riots break out during the Democratic National Convention which makes a lot of people switch to the Republican Party.
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The longest Vietnam Battle Ends
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Republican Richard Nixon defeats Democrat Hubert Humphrey
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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.
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First Astronauts Land on the Moon before the Soviets
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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
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Rolling Stones host Altamont Music Festival in Altamount California