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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is formed.
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The first-ever televised presidential debate takes place between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon
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The very first episode of "The Flintstones" is aired entitled "The Flintstone Flyer".
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President Kennedy is elected the 35th president of the United States.
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Russia is the first country in the world to send a man into outer space successfully.
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The Berlin Wall is built to separate East and West Berlin.
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Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, hitting his 61st on October 1st.
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The manifesto of the Student Activist movement is released.
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Marilyn Monroe passes away from a Barbiturate Overdoes.
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James Meredith was an African American who registered at Ole Miss an all-white university.
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"Dr. No" premiers at the London Pavillion.
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The threat of Cuban Missile use against the U.S. scares the U.S.
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King Jr. presents his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington.
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President Kennedy is murdered in Dallas Texas while in an open vehicle.
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The famous music group arrives in America.
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The Beatles make their American television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Second most American world fair of all time takes place in New York.
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North Vietnamese patrol torpedo attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater in a landslide to become the 36th President of the United States.
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Human rights activist Malcolm X is murdered in the Audubon Ballroom.
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Riots took place against the police after an African-American man was arrested for robbery after being pulled over for reckless driving.
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The "Star Trek" TV series airs.
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People gather in San Francisco Golden Gate Park to celebrate counterculture.
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Super Bowl 1 is held in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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Muhammad Ali refuses to join the Vietnam war after being drafted.
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The Beatles release Sgt. Peppers album in late May.
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The U.S. Government declares LSD illegal after seeing the effects it began having on users.
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The three-day concert event is held in California.
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Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the Supreme Court after a vote of 69 to 11.
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A surprise attack by Vietcong soldiers on North Vietnamese forces.
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Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is murdered in Memphis.
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The brother of President Kennedy is murdered.
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Protest activity takes place to protest the Vietnam War.
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Series of violent events by the homosexual community against the police.
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Micheal Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon.
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A group of people associated with Manson murder members of the Tate family.
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Woodstock Concert held in Bethel, New York.
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The Rolling Stones hosted the Altamont Music Festival after a successful U.S. Tour
