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1961 BCE
Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruths single season home run
Roger beat Babes record by 1 -
First airing of the flinestones
ABC introduced the show to television. -
Russians send the first man into space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was sent into space by the russians. -
Berlin Wall is Constructed
German soilders helped build the wall. -
SDS releases its port huron statement
It stated "the civil rights and peace and student movements are too poor and socially slighted, and the labor movement too quiescent". -
Marilyn Monroe dies
She was only 36 years when she died, when she overdosed from drugs. -
James Meridith registers at Ole Mis
When he registered, a riot of white people gathered on campus to protest. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy fixed the emergency by ordering a quarantine of Cuba. -
Dr. Kings I have a dream speech
The speechs purpose was to fight for freedom and against discrimination. -
John F Kennedy is assassinated
He was shot in the head after him and his wife were in the back of an open car. -
President Kennedy is Elected
Kennedy and Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy were one of many veterans to get elected to congress that year. -
The beatles appear on Ed Sullivan
73 million people tuned in to watch. -
The Beatles arrive in the US
They arrived at John F Kennedy airport. -
Malcolm X assasinated
He was killed in the audubon ballroom. -
Watts race riots
The riots were cuased by the arrest of Marquette fry. -
Star Trek TV show affairs
Relationships with Gene Roddenberry were involved with Nichelle Nichols and Majel Barrett. -
First NFL Football Super Bowl
The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. -
Boxer muhammed ali refuses military service
After he refused military service , his title was taken away from him. -
beatles release sgt peppers album
May 26, 1967 is when the album was released to the public. -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the supreme court
He was the first black person to run for supreme court. -
San Francisco ¨Summer of love¨dies
¨Death of Hippie¨ overturned ¨Summer of love. -
Tet Offensive
It was one of the many military campaigns for the vietnam war. -
Martin Luther king assacinated
He was killed in TE. -
Robert Kennedy is assasinated
Sirhan shot Kennedy at a hotel multiples times. -
Protests at the 1968 democratic national convention
The protest were against the vietnam war -
Stonewall riots
Members of gay community came together to protests laws that didnt include them. -
American astronuats land on the moon
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrich were the first men to land on the moon -
Woodstock Concert
400,000 people attended the festival. -
Richard Nixon is elected
He ran for president from 1969 to 1974. -
The rolling stones host the altamont music festival
300,000 people showed up in California for the rolling stones.