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https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration The little rock nine were a group of nine black students that were enrolled at formerly all-white central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fidel-castro Castro was captured and prisioned after leading 120 men in an attack on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Many of his men were also killed in the process.
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https://www.jfklibrary.org/ Kennedy won over Nixon with a total of 118,550 votes. He was the youngest man ever elected president, and catholic.
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-man-in-space Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gargarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs This was a failed military invasion to Cuba. A counter-military group, trained by CIA intended to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the U.S and the Soviet Union.
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/medgar-evers-assassinated Medgar Evers was shot to death by a white supremacist Bryon De La Beckwith. Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virgnia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom The Great March on Washington was made to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans, and other POC. That's when Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln memorial.
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http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html The first U.S combat troops arrived in Vietnam to defend the American air base at Da Nang.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 This was a landmark that prohibited racial discrimination in voting. The Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965.
