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He is commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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LSD becomes illegal
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University.
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The U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee in Chicago at the studios of CBS's
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It was an original broadcast in a prime time slot, the first such instance for an animated series.
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The 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
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Thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.
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Roger Maris of the Yankees hits more than 60 home runs in a single season
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It's about America's emergence from World War II as the beacon of those ideals and about our country's failure to be faithful to them.
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Actress passed
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The first African-American student at the University of Mississippi.
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This was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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A scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder.
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He preached for civil and economic rights and spoke for an end to racism in the United States.
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Shot in a parade.
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The Beatles, from left to right, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, make a windswept arrival at JFK airport in New York City.
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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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This fair was the second most expansive American world's fair of all time and even exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904
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The evidence was found of "Tonkin ghosts" through false radar images and not actual North Vietnamese torpedo boats.
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The Republican nominee, Johnson championed his passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and his campaign advocated a series of anti-poverty programs collectively known as the Great Society.
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Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks.
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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. An African-American motorist on parole for robbery was pulled over for reckless driving.
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Star Trek's Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network canceled it after three seasons and 79 episodes. Several years later, the series became a bona fide hit in broadcast syndication, remaining so throughout the 1970s, achieving cult classic status and a developing influence on popular culture.
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Another type of world with Americans and even Europeans that actually seemed possible here, one full of love, freedom, and self-autonomy, 30,000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
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The NFL's Green Bay Packers against the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs.
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Muhammad Ali's appeal of his conviction in 1967 for refusing to report for induction into the United States military forces during the Vietnam War. His local draft board had rejected his application for conscientious objector classification.
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The Beatles released their album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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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. Crowd estimates for the festival have ranged from 25,000 to 90,000 people, who congregated in and around the festival grounds.
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President Johnson appointed Marshall as the United States Solicitor General. Marshall retired during the administration of President George.
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The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong. The North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War.
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He was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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It has been suggested that the date of the assassination is significant because it was the first anniversary of the start of the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. He was shot after his brother JFK.
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A Democratic Party presidential candidate, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War and the political status quo
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The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
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These riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raids.
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Apollo 11 blasted off, four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module.
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The Tate murders were a series of killings conducted by members of the Manson Family, which claimed the lives of five people. Four members of the Family invaded the home of the married celebrity couple, actress Sharon Tate and director Roman Polanski in Los Angeles.
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A Music Festival goes on after three days of peace, love, and rock 'n' roll in upstate New York.
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Altamont was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit.
