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Some 200 students attended the conference at Shaw University from April 16-18, 1960, during which the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born. -
Was the first animated series with a prime-time slot on television. -
American viewers were riveted to their television sets for the broadcast of the fourth and final debate between Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy. -
He served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. -
The Soviet Union achieve a clear triumph in the space race. -
Proposed a new form of “participatory democracy” to rescue modern society from destructive militarism and cultural alienation. -
The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and a tangible manifestation of the world's separation into two distinct ideological blocs. -
Maris hit 61 home runs breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record. -
Proposed a new form of “participatory democracy” to rescue modern society from destructive militarism and cultural alienation. -
Monroe died at age 36 of a barbiturate overdose inside her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. -
James Meredith officially became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi on October 2, 1962. -
The film Dr. No in 1962, the line "Bond... James Bond", became a catch phrase in the lexicon of Western popular culture. -
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
President John F. Kennedy was shot as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas -
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison landed in America -
So The Beatles were just a week from having their performance captured and preserved forever in color. These four historic Beatles performances on The Ed Sullivan Show featured 20 Beatles songs -
Spanning 646 acres in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, the event was considered a pinnacle of mid-20th-century American culture and technology. -
He was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California and pronounced dead the following day. -
Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in a landslide victory. -
Was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City. -
Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African-American man, was pulled over for drunken driving. -
The Beatles' eighth album became the soundtrack to the "summer of love" but its appeal is timeless. -
Star Trek aired on NBC. It was first broadcast on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV network. -
Marshall was “best qualified by training and by very valuable service to the country -
Leary made his first San Francisco appearance in 1967 at the Human Be-In, a counterculture event that unofficially launched San Francisco's Summer of Love. -
The first Super Bowl in history took place at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. -
"If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn't have to draft me, I'd join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We've been in jail for 400 years." -
This resulted in LSD being viewed as a cultural threat to American values and the Vietnam war effort. -
North Vietnamese and VietCong troops launched the Tet Offensive against South Vietnamese and United States targets. -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States after previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator. -
The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the routine compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. -
Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon after riding on Apollo 11. -
The National Register Woodstock Music Festival site commemorates a three-day music festival. -
SIDEBAR. As the final show of their American tour, the Rolling Stones held a one-day rock festival at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California.