Awakenings lotus

The 1960's

By geoffthelegend
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    The "60's".

    A look at interesting things that happened between 1960-1969.
  • televised electorial debate, Kennedy vs Nixon.

    televised electorial debate, Kennedy vs Nixon.

    John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate for presidential election on tv.
  • First human in space.

    First human in space.

    Yuri Gagarin, a russian cosmonaut, makes it into space as the first human to have gone to space.
  • first American, second human in space.

    first American, second human in space.

    Alan Shepard makes it into space but is not the first, however, it is still a triumph.
  • "I have a dream".

    "I have a dream".

    Martin Luther King Jr. gives his now famous speech "I have a dream" to over 200,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, America.
  • A writer with a warning dies.

    A writer with a warning dies.

    Rachel Carson, ecologist and writer, dies of cancer in 1964.
    In her book, "Silent Spring", she warns about gases and pollution causing negative effects to the planet.
  • A step for equality.

    A step for equality.

    Richard B. Russell tells leading civil rights supporters that he would stop the bill for civil rights being blocked.
    Sure enough, the bill is voted for and passed the same year.
  • a heart giving first.

    a heart giving first.

    Christiaan Barnard performs the first heart transplant, a major leap in the medical field of progress.
  • "Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

    "Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

    Apollo 11 lands on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil Armstrong makes his famous speech there, "thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."