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The SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was youth group of students that were opposed to the racial segregations at the time. -
The first episode of the popular cartoon tv show "The flintstones" airs. -
The first presidential election ,Kennedy v. Nixon., is aired on TV -
JFK was inaugurated as the 35th president of the united states. He was the youngest president ever introduced in office. -
In hot competition with the U.S the Russian space program sends cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. -
The berlin wall gets erected splitting the politically differing east and west berlin. -
New york yankees player Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's single season home run record of 60. -
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) published The Port Huron Statement in 1962. The organization's stances on democracy, social justice, and civil rights were expressed in the manifesto. -
Famous actress known for " Blonde Bombshell" dies of an overdose. -
James Meredith was the first African American to be admitted to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1962. His enrollment at the university was met with violent opposition, including a riot. -
An American emergency where for a time we believed the communist controlled Russia were harboring missile aimed for the U.S in Cuba, -
The first 007 films premiers. -
President John F. Kennedy is shot dead in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The British boy band The Beatles arrive in America for the very first time to thousands of fans. -
The beetles make their debut appearance on the ed Sullivan show. -
A pavilion of over 80 counties sharing their nations cultures and experiences. -
Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater with 61% percent of the popular vote. -
Civil rights leader Malcom x is killed in New york city by Thomas Hagan. -
A series of protests in the Watts neighborhood surrounding L.A in lieu of a police racial profiling. -
The common psychedelic Lsd, which gained notoriety in the Summer of love is declarded illegal of the U.S Gov. -
The popular TV show "Star Trek airs for the first time. -
The nation football league holds their first "superbowl" game. The Kansas City Chiefs faced in the Green Bay Packers. -
The Beatles release their 8th studio album entitled "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". -
An influx of the hippie culture across San Fran that involved a renaissance of music, clothing, culture, and drug use, -
Boxer Muhammed Ali in a anti - war sentiment states that he will not go to Vietnam and is labeled as a draft dodger and is sent to jail. -
Thurgood Marshall serves as the first African American supreme court justice from 1967-1991 -
During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong, and North Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive. The fighting which occurred over the Tet holiday, caught the South Vietnamese and American forces off guard and resulted in fierce battle in many of cities and villages. -
Martin Luther King Jr, an African American civil rights leader, is shot dead in Memphis Tennessee -
During his political campaign run, Robert Kennedy is shot dead by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles. -
A series of protests telling the U.S gov to "take the troops" out of Vietnam. -
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the united states. This was during a time of heavy American social tension around the controversial Vietnam war. -
The Stonewall riots were a series of unplanned protests by LGBT members in reaction to a police raid that started early on June 28, 1969. -
Apollo 11, which took off on July 16, 1969, and landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, was the first human mission to the moon. The astronauts who stepped on the moon were Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. -
It was a three-day concert that drew an estimated 400,000 people to a farm in Bethel, New York, to hear some of the biggest names in rock and roll. -
The rolling stone hosts a music fest that turns violent with 3 attenders ending up dead.