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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. -
the beloved show about a family of cavemen airs in the 1960s. -
Which presidential campaign produced the first nationally televised debate? The typical answer to that question is 1960, Kennedy v. Nixon. -
John F. Kennedy becomes the president of the US. He would remain president until his assassination three years later. -
aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. -
Wall built between west and east berlin -
in New York's final game of the regular season, 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. He tops former Yankees great Babe Ruth, who hit 60 home runs in 1927. -
It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers (UAW) retreat outside of Port Huron, Michigan (now part of Lakeport State Park), for the group's first national convention. -
Famous actress dies in her house. She dies of an overdose -
James Meredith was finally allowed to register -
In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities -
The famous franchise's first movie, starring Sean Connery as James Bond, premiers -
Vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the president after JFK is killed. -
The British boy band arrive in America. -
At 8 o'clock on February 9th 1964, America tuned in to CBS and The Ed Sullivan Show. But this night was different. 73 million people gathered in front their TV sets to see The Beatles' first live performance on U.S. soil. -
A huge fair held in New York begins -
Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee, in a landslide. -
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. -
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African American man, was pulled over for drunken driving. -
The critically acclaimed sci-fi shows starts in the late 60s -
In summer of '67, a huge wave of hippie fashion populated San Francisco, California -
The biggest event in Football starts in the 1960s -
Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces, saying “I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong.” -
The Beatles release the experimental album they spent over 400 hours making -
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated distinguished civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. -
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
The famed pastor and civil rights activist is shot and killed -
Robert Kennedy, brother to JFK is killed. -
Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1968, counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. -
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." LSD was removed from legal circulation. -
Richard Nixon is elected president in 1969. He resigns after being impeached in 1974 -
Members of the LGBTQ+ community respond to a violent police raid at a well know gay bar in Manhattan -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon -
A huge hippie music festival consisting of over 100,000 people in New York. -
The famous rock band hailing from London host the Altamont music festival