Cultural 1960's Timeline By: Andrew Huff

By historystuf
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    Cultural Time Line

  • The FDA approves a birth control pill for women

  • The U.S. figure skating team all die on a plane crash on their journey to the World Championships

  • The Beatles first single,"My Bonnie" is first released in Germany

  • Sam Walton opens up the first "Walmart" store in Rogers ,Arkansas

  • Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her bedroom

  • Dr. Michael E. De Bakey implants the first artifical hear in a human at a hospital in Houston

  • The US begins to use five digit (not mandatory) zip codes

  • Malcolm X is assainated in Harlem, New York

  • Medicare begins in the United States for people over 65

  • Star Trek's first episode, "The Man Trap" is aired on TV

  • The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl

  • Famous actress Judy Garland dies of an overdose at age 47

  • Stonewall Riots in New York City mark the first modern gay rights movement in the U.S.

  • Lance Armstrong became the first person to step on the moon

  • The Advanced Research Projects agency invents the internet at the U.S. Department of Defence