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President Kennedy is elected
Kennedy was the 44th president -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
John F Kennedy is assasinated
John F Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas Texas -
Beatles Arrive in the USA
Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York's Kennedy Airport–and “Beatlemania” arrives. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
An international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War -
Beatles Release Sgt. Peppers Album
It spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the US. -
Tet offensive
Series of Vietcong and North Vietnamese attacks -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles California -
Richard Nixon is elected
46th president of the United States -
American astronauts land on the moon
Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon.
