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SNCC formed
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First televised Presidential debate
This debate was between kennedy and nixon whixh kennedy won -
First airing of “The Flintstones”
It has been a show for 60 years and is a classic -
President Kennedy is elected
In a closely contested election, Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon -
Russians send the first man into space
aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space -
Construction of berlin wall
The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin. -
Roger Maris of the Yankees breaks Babe Ruth’s single season home run record
He hit 61 home runs which beat arguably the best player of all time -
SDS releases its Port Huron statement
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Marilyn Monroe dies
She had a Barbiturate overdose -
James Meredith registers at Ole Miss
The first Black man to enroll there -
Cuban missile crisis
the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1-month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which -
“Dr. No” the first James Bond movie premiers
with the release of Dr. No, North American moviegoers get their first look–down the barrel of a gun–at the super-spy James Bond -
Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” Speech
delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC -
JFK is assassinated
American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in offic -
The Beatles arrive in the United States
the Beatles arrived at John F Kennedy airport in New York, greeted by thousands of screaming fans. -
The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan
The Ed Sullivan Show returned from a commercial and there was Ed Sullivan standing before a restless crowd. -
New York World’s Fair begins
The theme was symbolized by a 12-story-high, stainless-steel model of the Earth called the Unisphere -
Lyndon B Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater
Incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee. With 61.1% of the popular vote -
Malcolm X assassinated
He was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist -
Watts race riots
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles -
“Star Trek” TV show airs
It was first broadcast on Canada's CTV network. Star Trek's Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network cancelled it after three seasons and 79 episodes. -
San Francisco “Summer of Love” begins
It became one of the main epicenters of hippodrome, -
First NFL Football Super Bowl
Arising out of a merger of the NFL and the AFL -
Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s album
An iconic album which released 1 day after in the U.S -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
He was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis -
Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses military service
He refused because muslims do not believe in war. He was also immediately stripped of his heavyweight title which I thought was very interesting -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. -
Protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Protest activity against the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention -
LSD declared illegal by the U.S. government
legally designating that the drug has a "high potential for abuse" and is without any "currently accepted medical use in treatment." -
Richard Nixon is elected
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election -
American astronauts land on moon
Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle -
Stonewall riots
were a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid -
Woodstock concert
It was a music festival held basically for hippies. -
The Rolling Stones host the Altamont music festival
was a counterculture rock concert in the United States,