Rosa Parks sits down on the front of a bus and ignites the Montgovery Bus Movement
The birth control pill was approved for contraception
American pilot Francis Gary Powers is shot down in a U-2 spy plane flying above the Soviet Union.
John F. Kennedy announces plans to put a man on the moon.
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet Union begins build secret missile bases for intermediate range missiles.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - "I have a dream..." speech
British Invasion- Beatles became popular in the US
John F. Kennedy Assassination
US president Lyndon B. Johnson claims North Vietnamese naval vessels had fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf Of Tonkin. The incident leads to open involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War.
