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This made it the only presidential election where the threshold for victory was 269 electoral votes. -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. -
Made people want to vote for Kennedy -
The first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television. -
Roger Maris approached the plate with 60 home runs on the season, tied with Babe Ruth for the most home runs in a season. He tied the record five days earlier against the Orioles -
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space -
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Germany from 1961 to 1989 -
Movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. -
Under Walter Reuther's leadership, the UAW paid for a range of expenses for the 1962 convention, including use of the UAW summer retreat in Port Huron. -
After the riot was crushed, the military continued to occupy Oxford for almost ten months. James Meredith officially became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi -
It was a direct and dangerous 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. -
The release of Dr. No, North American moviegoers get their first look–down the barrel of a gun–at the super-spy James Bond. -
King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States -
He is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling through Dallas, Texas. -
The Beatles arrived at John F Kennedy airport in New York, greeted by thousands of screaming fans. -
Sullivan and his producers swiftly recognized that The Beatles were something monumental by the end of 1963. He made sure that their first live televised performance in the US would be on his show. -
New York World's Fair was a world's fair that held over 140 pavilions and 110 restaurants -
With 61.1% of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since the largely uncontested 1820 election. -
Malcolm X was assassinated at age 39 as he was preparing to give a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan -
To end mistreatment by the police and to end discrimination in housing, employment, and schooling systems -
This is the first television series in the Star Trek franchise, and comprises 79 regular episodes over the series' three seasons -
President Johnson nominated Marshall to replace the retiring Justice Tom Clark, who left the Court after his son, Ramsey Clark, became Attorney General. -
About 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. -
The Green Bay Packers smash the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 -
When Ali arrived to be inducted in the United States Armed Forces, however, he refused, citing his religion forbade him from serving. -
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles -
In 1968, he ran for the presidency again and was elected, defeating Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in a close election. -
LSD was declared a "Schedule I" substance, legally designating that the drug has a "high potential for abuse" and is without any "currently accepted medical use in treatment." -
North Vietnam attacks South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. -
James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. -
Counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order -
Neil Armstrong is the first to land on the moon. -
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours -
A music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday