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JFK Wins Presidency
John F. Kennedy WINSDemocratic candidate John F. Kennedy is elected president of the United States. His margin of victory over Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon is just over 100,000 votes. Kennedy wins 300 Electoral College votes to Nixon’s 219. -
Boynton V. Virginia
Freedom RidersOn December 20, 1958, Howard Law School student Bruce Boynton boarded a bus on his way home to Selma, Alabama for the Christmas holiday. During a break at bus terminal in Richmond, Virginia, Boynton entered a “whites only” restaurant where he was refused service, ordered to eat at an establishment for black travelers and then arrested after refusing to comply with the enforcement of segregation. Boynton’s case was a strong one, and on October 12, 1960 it was brought before the Supreme Court. -
Peace Corps Founded
Kennedy Outlines Peace CorpsPresident John F. Kennedy issues an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. The Corps aims to disseminate good will and practical knowledge by enlisting volunteers, most under age 30, to two-year terms of service. -
Berlin Wall Built
Berlin Wall Erectedto permanently close off access to the West. For the next 28 years, the heavily fortified Berlin Wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the Cold War--a literal "iron curtain" dividing Europe. -
1st person killed trying to cross Berlin Wall
First Kill Berlin WallEast German guards gun down a young man trying to escape across the Berlin Wall into West Berlin and leave him to bleed to death. It was one of the ugliest incidents to take place at one of the ugliest symbols of the Cold War. -
JFK proposes BIg Tax Cut
Tax CutIn a speech before the Economic Club of New York, President John Kennedy unveils a plan for economic recovery that emphasizes large tax cuts and credits for businesses. One of his liberal economic advisors labels it the most “Republican speech since McKinley.”1 These proposals will become part of the Tax Reduction Act signed into law in 1964. -
Limited Test Band Treaty
Signing of Treaty The treaty prohibits nuclear weapons tests "or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water. While not banning tests underground, the Treaty does prohibit nuclear explosions in this environment if they cause "radioactive debris to be present outside the territorial limits of the State under whose jurisdiction or control" the explosions were conducted. In accepting limitations on testing -
First Women in Space
Ready For SpaceValentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and engineer, and the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6. Tereshkova was only honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space. -
March on Wahington
March On Washington200,000-250,000 Americans, mostly African Americans, but including thousands of whites, held the march in order to focus attention on blacks' demands for immediate equality in jobs and civil rights.Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. -
JFK Assassinated
JFK AssasinationPresident John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as president the same day. -
Johnson declares war on poverty
War On PovertyIn President Lyndon Johnson’s first inaugural address, a little over a month after assuming the presidency, he declares war on poverty and outlines an ambitious domestic agenda aimed at reducing unemployment, increasing support for education and job training, and expanding public services for the poor. -
Beatles come to the U.S. !!!!!!!!!!!
Beatles Here Comes The Sun The day The Beatles’ American invasion began. The Beatles’ Boeing 707, Pan Am flight 101, left London Airport early on the morning of 7 February 1964, bound for New York City. -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights ActThe act outlaws discrimination in public facilities, such as parks, and in public accommodations, such as hotels and restaurants, and it prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. -
Malcom X assisnated 1965
Death Of Malcom XShortly after repudiating the Nation of Islam, Malcom X was assassinated by three of its members. -
Rolling Stones Mega Hit I cant get no Satisfaction
I Cant Get No SatisfactionThe song was first released as a single in the United States in June 1965 and also featured on the fourth studio album of American version of Out of Our Heads, released that July. "Satisfaction" was a hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially played only on pirate radio stations because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive. -
Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare MedicaidMedicare, a national health insurance program for the elderly. Companion legislation creates Medicaid, providing health care for people on welfare. Later, Medicaid will be broadened into a more comprehensive program financing health care for low-income persons. -
Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
vietnam warProtests were part of a movement in opposition to the Vietnam War and took place mainly in the United States -
National Organization of Women
National Organization for WomenA feminist organization founded in 1966. It has a membership of 550,000. Womens rights activists were frustrated with the way in which the federal government was not enforcing the new anti-discrimination laws. -
Six-Day War in Middle East
Six Day WarThe Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel. The Six-Day War was initiated by General Moshe Dayan, the Israeli’s Defence Minister. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood NominatedFirst African American associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, -
Martin Luther King Assasinated
MLK Assasination NewsKing assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05pm that evening. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968 and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. -
Democratic National Convention
Violence Batters ConventionThe purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the office. The convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968. -
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Woodstock
Woodstocka music festival held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 young people.
