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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded in the wake of sit-ins organized by students at segregated lunch counters. -
Kennedy vs. Nixon was the first televised presidential debate. -
The show is set in a comical version of the Stone Age but has added features and technologies that resemble mid-20th-century suburban America. -
Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy edges out Republican candidate Richard Nixon to become the 35th president. -
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet. -
East German soldiers laid down over 30 miles of barbed wire through the heart of Berlin. -
On October 1, 1961, 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. -
The Port Huron Statement is about democratic ideals. It's about America's emergence from World War II as the beacon of those ideals and about our country's failure to be faithful to them. -
Marilyn Monroe died in the waning hours of August 4, in what looked like a barbiturate overdose. She was just 36 years old. -
Meredith was the first African American enrolled at the University of Mississippi which was previously segregated. -
This film launched the James Bond saga and followed Dr. No. Dr. No was a scientific genius that was dedicated to destroying the U.S. Space Program. -
America and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. -
The main idea behind Martin Luther King's famous speech was to showcase to the American public the degree of racial inequality in the United States, requesting them to abstain from discriminating on the basis of race. -
President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas. -
The band arrived to play their first concerts in America. -
73 million people tuned in to view The Beatles first live performance on U.S. soil. -
206,000 people were present as the New York World Fair was opened, and the opening ceremony featured a speech from President Roosevelt. -
The incumbent, Johnson, defeated Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in a landslide. Johnson achieved 61.1% of the popular vote which was the largest since the election of 1820. -
Civil Rights activist Malcolm X was assassinated while addressing his organization of Afro-American Unity in Washington Heights. He was just 39 years old. -
The Watts Riots were sparked when Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old black man, was forcibly arrested for drunk driving on Wednesday, 11 August 1965 in the Watts neighborhood. -
LSD was declared illegal in the United States because it was designated the drug had a high potential for abuse. It also didn't have an accepted medical use for treatment which added to the decision. -
The show tells the tale of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise and its five-year mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before". -
30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. They came to take part in counterculture poet Allen Ginsberg and writer Gary Synder's "Human Be-In" initiative, part of the duo's call for a collective expansion of consciousness. -
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Cheifs 35-10 and hoisted the first Lombardi Trophy. -
Prior to a boxing match, Muhammed Ali was informed he was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. However, he cited his religion did not allow for that. -
Sgt. Pepper's was supposed to represent a fictional performance by Sgt. Pepper's nonexistent band, hence the orchestral tuning and simulated crowd sound. -
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. -
A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
MLK was shot dead while standing on the balcony at a hotel. His death prompted many cities to continue his legacy of fighting for African American rights. -
Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy is wounded and killed by Sirhan Sirhan. -
American citizens protested against America's involvement in the Vietnam war during the DNC in Chicago. -
After losing in two other elections, Republican Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in a close race. -
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid. -
American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to land on the moon. -
The Woodstock Concert provided Americans with a chance to escape the reality of the Vietnam War. Many Americans opposed this and used the concert as a way to cope with the issue. -
About 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".