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The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was formed in April, 1960 in efforts to progress desegregation.
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The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee
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The Flintstones premiered on September 30, 1960 and quickly became popular
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John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States on November 8, 1960.
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Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.
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It was constructed by German Democratic Republic in order to split West and East Germany
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On October 1, 1961, New York Yankee Roger Maris becomes the first-ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season.
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The Port Huron Statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society. It was written by SDS members, and completed on June 15, 1962, at a United Auto Workers retreat in Port Huron, Michigan, for the group's first national convention
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Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose in her home in California.
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The first African American students enrolled in college at Ole Miss
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The campaign also included the 007 logo designed by Joseph Caroff with a pistol as part of the seven. Dr. No had its worldwide premiere at the London Pavilion, on 5 October 1962
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A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963
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President JFK was assassinated in a convertible while campaigning.
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The Beatles arrived in the United States and their televised performances on The Ed Sullivan Show were viewed by millions os people.
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The Beatles, with their Edwardian suits and mop top haircuts, made their first American television appearance live on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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The New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second most expensive American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident led the United States more into the Vietnam War after Vietnamese Tripp’s attacked the USS Maddox.
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He was the Democratic candidate and beat Goldwater the Republican candidate in the 45th quadrennial election.
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Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement who was assassinated.
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They took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving.
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Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969
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The Summer of Love began when some 30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
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On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) smash the American Football League (AFL)'s Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
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He refused to go into the Vietnam War.
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The Beatles released one of their most popular albums which remained number one on the charts for 27 weeks.
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The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.
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President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of a previous retiree.
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The drug LSD was made illegal by the U.S government
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The Tet Offensive was a series of the Vietcong on towns and cities through South Vietnam. It was a turning point in the Vietnam War.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968
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Protests against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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The election was held Ion Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon was elected
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On July 16, 1969 the Apollo 11 mission to land mankind on the moon.
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A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City
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The Manson family murdered 5 people in California
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Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of Woodstock.
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They hosted a festival at the Altamont Speedway.
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John F Kennedy's younger brother was assassinated while giving a speech while running for President.
