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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was created. This was a major civil rights organization out of North Carolina.
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The debate between JFK and Richard Nixon was the first televised presidential debate.
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The first episode of the very popular show was aired
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President Kennedy beats Richard Nixon to become president.
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The Soviet Union launches Yuri Gagarin into space. He is the first man in space.
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The wall dividing Eastern and Western Berlin is constructed.
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He became the first player to hit more than 60 home runs in a season and breaks Babe Ruth's record set in 1927
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An African American man registered to attend an all white university, resulting in riots and chaos.
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The opening of a very large fair in New York City
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This was a template for society that Students for a Democratic Society released.
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Famous actress and model Marilyn Monroe dies
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Conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the Soviets move nuclear weapons into Cuba.
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The first movie in the James Bond series premieres.
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MLK delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington
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JFK is assassinated while in a presidential motorcade
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The world famous and extremely influential British band comes to the U.S.
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The Beatles perform on the popular Ed Sullivan show, drawing the largest television audience to date.
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False flag incident between the U.S. and North Vietnam. Led the U.S. to get more involved in Vietnam.
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Lyndon B Johnson wins the election of 1964 over Barry Goldwater
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Civil rights leader and activist Malcolm X is assassinated in Manhattan
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A series of violent protests in Los Angeles after an African American man was pulled over for reckless driving..
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The famous show "Star Trek" first airs.
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An event where many people campaigned for love and peace instead of war in the city of San Francisco
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The very first Super Bowl held in Los Angeles, California
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The famous boxer refused to join the military after citing religious reasons.
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The Beatles released their Eighth album that spent 15 weeks at the top of Billboard
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The first African American Supreme Court Justice nominated
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A three day pop festival held in California.
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A large scale attack by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong against the South Vietnamese and the Americans.
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated
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JFK's brother and senator is assassinated in a hotel
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Protests of the Vietnam War occurred at the 1968 DNC
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The hallucinogenic drug was made illegal in the United States
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Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey to take presidential office.
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A serious of violent demonstrations by the gay community against police.
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American astronauts were first ones to land on the moon.
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Sharon Tate, along with 4 others, are murdered by the Manson family in Los Angeles
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Music festival with an audience of 400,000 people
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This was a counterculture rock concert held in Northern California. Around 300,000 people attended and it was thought to be the Woodstock of the West.
