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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded by young people dedicated to nonviolence. -
This first Televised presidential debate was between Democratic Senator and John F. Kennedy. -
This show was first aired in 1960 and was one of the first major animated series streamed on television. -
President Kennedy won the election against Lyndon B. Johnson. He was the youngest man to be elected into office. -
Yuri Gagarin boarded the Vostok 1 and became the first human in space. -
The Berlin Wall was constructed in hopes of ending the mass exodus in Berlin. It would prevent the West's influence on the East. -
Babe Ruth's record was broken on October 1st, 1961 by Roger Maris on the Yankees. -
It condemned middle-class materialism, racism, conformity, and anticommunism. -
Marilyn Monroe was found dead in California as a result of overdose. -
He was guarded 24 hours a day by troops and deputy Marshalls. Students constantly harassed him verbally. -
This happened at the London Pavilion cinema on Piccadilly Circus with the first performance at 10:45 AM. -
This was a 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. It was the closest that the Cold War got to breaking out into a full-scale nuclear war. -
King called for civil and economic rights as well as an end to racism at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Johnson won in the general election and became the only Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote. -
He was shot in Texas. Kennedy was the youngest president elected and the youngest one to die. -
Once the Beatles arrived in the US, the music world remained forever changed. Their music is still widely listened to today. -
Following this day, they made several more appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. -
The theme of the fair was "Peace through Understanding" and it cost $2.00 to attend. -
Malcolm X was an activist and Muslim minister and he was killed in Manhattan at age 39 from gunshot wounds. -
These occurred to end mistreatment by the police and discrimination in housing, employment, and schooling systems. -
It aired on Canada's CTV network in 1966. -
This was a culmination of events as a result of massive counterculture movements rooted in San Francisco. Some results of this time would be hippies, flower children, and new music. -
This game was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. -
Ali refused to be inducted into the armed forces, convicted of draft evasion, sentenced five years to prison, fined $10,000, and was banned from boxing for three years. -
This was the band's eighth album and it is still loved today. It became the soundtrack to "summer of love". -
John appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first African American supreme court justice. -
Campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
MLK Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist. He helped lead the Civil Rights movement. -
This American politician and lawyer was shot. He served as the 64th US attorney general. -
Protesters began the chant, "The Whole World is Watching." -
Richard Nixon was the Republican nominee and he won the election against Hubert Humphrey -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle. Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. -
This was a series of riots against a police raid led by gay activists. -
This was held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm and it represents counterculture, peace, love, and music. -
This was a counterculture rock concert in the US. -
This hallucinogenic drug was first synthesized by a Swiss scientist in the 1930s. It was also utilized in the Cold War and as a symbol of the counterculture in the 1960s.