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Ray Kroc found the idea for the McDonald's corporation, agreeing to franchise the idea of Dick and Mac McDonald.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks was jailed in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws.
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The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation. It also allocated $26 billion to pay for them.
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President of the International Brotherhood union of Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges.
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National Guard called to duty by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus to bar nine black students from attending previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He withdrew the troops on September 21 and the students were allowed entrance to class two days later. A threat of violence caused President Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops to Little Rock on September 24 to enforce the edict.
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The first attempt by the United States to launch a satellite into space fails when it explodes on the launchpad.
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Senator John F. Kennedy, a Democratic candidate from Massachusetts wins the 1960 presidential election over Richard Nixon
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The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and Freedom culminates with Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Over 200,000 people participated in the march for equal rights.
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During a motorcade through downtown Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by accused shooter Lee Harvey Oswald who is killed two days later while in police custody.
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Malcolm X was assassinated at age 39 while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York, by members of The Nation of Islam.
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Two supposed incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin lead Johnson to seek congressional approval for direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam. March 8, 1965: First Marines land in Danang.
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice.
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a motel balcony by James Earl Ra
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The Apollo program completes its mission. Neil Armstrong, United States astronaut, becomes the first man to set foot on the moon four days after launch from Cape Canaveral.
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500,000 people gathered in the capitol for what's believed to be the largest antiwar protest in U.S. history, to protest America's involvement in the Vietnam war
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The assassination of Fred Hampton, a Black Panthers leader, was part of a long history of police and government violence against black activists. The police fired over 173 shots in Mr. Hampton's apartment as he slept.
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Police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
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Nixon resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office following the Watergate scandal, the only time an American president has done so.
