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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics.
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Kennedy-Nixon debate was on TV for the first time
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first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television by ABC
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elected president in 1960, defeating Vice President Richard Nixon
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a soviet pilot who was launched into space in Vostok 1 capsule.
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Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin
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Yankees slugger hits 61 home run, beating babe ruth's previous 60
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a political manifesto of the North American student activist movement.
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barbiturate overdose in her home
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first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba
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a spy film directed by Terence Young, and it is the first film in the James Bond series.
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protest against discrimination and to fight for freedom and equality
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assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas
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arrived at John F Kennedy airport in New York, greeted by thousands of screaming fans
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73 million people watched The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS to see The Beatles' first live performance on U.S. soil.
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fair that ran for 2 six month seasons with a $2 admission price
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Johnson beat Goldwater winning over 61% of the popular vote
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Thomas Hagan, a former member of the Nation of Islam, was convicted of assassinating Malcolm X
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due to the arrest of Marquette Frye, riots occurred for 6 days
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lsd was viewed as a cultural threat and deemed illegal
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science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry which aired from September 8, 1966 through June 3, 1969
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social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people supported hippies
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Green Bay Packers defeated Kansas City Chiefs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.
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When USA was at war with Vietnam, he refused to be inducted because of his religion
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first pop album to be mastered without the momentary gaps that are typically placed between tracks as a point of demarcation.
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the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice
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North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam
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James Earl Ray shot him on his balcony in Memphis TN
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shot by Sirhan Sirhan shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles
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protests against the Vietnam war at a democratic convention
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Nixon defeated Democratic Hubert Humphrey. Nixon won the popular vote by less than one point
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon
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The tension from ongoing harassment galvanized the LGBTQ community to riot for six days
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an opportunity for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace
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A counterculture rock concert hosted by Rolling stones