the 1960s was the decade of integration and innovation

first televised presidential debate

Sep 26, 1960

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-presidential-speech-on-tvOn this day in 1960, Massachusetts Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon face each other in a nationally televised presidential campaign debate.

president john f kennedy elected into office

Nov 8, 1960

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-elected-presidentBorn on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate before becoming the 35th president in 1961. As president, Kennedy faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

freedom riders boycott southern bus system

May 4, 1961

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-ridesThe first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional.

the U.S. enter the Vietnam War

Jun 15, 1961

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/vietnam-war-us-involvement.html1961, South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrival (1961) of U.S. support troops and the formation (1962) of the U.S. Military Assistance Command

(tsar bomb) largest bomb to ever explode

Jul 1, 1961

<a href='' >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsEEsSYddb4</a>Big Ivan, better known as Tsar Bomba, was 57 Megatons of Soviet might. That's 1,400 times Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined and ten times the entire combined fire power expended in WWII. In one bomb. One explosion. And, incredibly, that's only half of what it could have done.

james meredith addmitted into the segregation of ole miss universtyi

Jun 16, 1962

http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/home/The Ole Miss riot of 1962 was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces as a result of the forced enrollment of black student James Meredith at the University of Mississippi (known affectionately as Ole Miss) at Oxford, Mississippi.

john carson takes over tonight show

Oct 1, 1962

<a href='' >http://www.retroplanet.com/blog/retro-memories/remember-when/october-1962-tonight-show/</a>Johnny Carson takes over from Jack Paar as host of the late-night talk program The Tonight Show. Carson went on to host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for three decades, becoming one of the biggest figures in entertainment in the 20th century.

Cuban missile crisis

Oct 22, 1962

http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisisThe Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.

birmingham civil rights march

May 2, 1963

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/birmingham-erupted-chaos-1963-battle-civil-rights-exploded-south-article-1.1071793They were eight days that tore at America’s conscience.
From May 2 to May 10, 1963, the nation bore witness as police in Birmingham, Ala., aimed high-powered hoses and sicced snarling dogs on black men, women and even children who wanted just one thing — to be treated the same as white Americans

Bob Dylan's "Times They Are Changing"

Jun 1, 1963

http://vimeo.com/11205275aIn 1963 Dylan released his 3rd album, and one of his most well-known in history, Times They Are a'Changing. This album pushed him to the front of the civil rights movement and he became increadibly involved in politics during this year, performing at protest rallies all over the country.

first woman in space

Jul 16, 1963

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-woman-in-spaceOn June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space.

march on washington st.(i have a dream speech)

Aug 28, 1963

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington/videos/martin-luther-king-jr-leads-the-march-on-washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. this is also where Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I have a dream" speech.

16th st. baptist church bombing

Sep 15, 1963

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement/videos/bombing-of-the-16th-street-baptist-churchOn Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and triggered the civil rights movement

john f kennedy assassinated

Nov 22, 1963

<a href='' >http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/November-22-1963-Death-of-the-President.aspx</a>Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

president johnson expands programs to reduce poverty

Jan 8, 1964

http://www.historycentral.com/sixty/Economics/Poverty.htmlIn 1960, over one fifth of the population of the United States was living below the poverty line. Congress attempted to address the issue in 1961, by passing the Rural Areas Development Act. The act provided loans for low-income farmers to expand land holdings; created new rural jobs through community projects

civil rights act is passed

Jul 2, 1964

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-actThe Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement

malcolm x assassinated

Feb 2, 1965

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/feb-21-1965-malcolm-x-is-assassinated-by-black-muslims/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little, was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most i

The watts riots

Aug 11, 1965

http://crdl.usg.edu/events/watts_riots/?WelcomeThe Watts Riots (or Watts Rebellion) was a race riot that took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965. The six-day unrest resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992.

mass draft protest

May 20, 1966

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/protests_vietnam_war.htmProtests against the Vietnam War did not start when America declared her open involvement in the war in 1964. International coverage of the protests showed that as the years moved on the protests got larger and more vocal. In March 1966, 50,000 anti-war protesters took part in a rally in one of America’s most famous cities

star trek series aired for the first time

Sep 8, 1966

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_SeriesStar Trek: The Original Series (formerly called just Star Trek) is the first Star Trek series. The first episode of the show aired on 8 September 1966 on NBC. The show was created by Gene Roddenberry

black panther party established

Oct 15, 1966

http://www.blackpanther.org/legacynew.htm black panther party
The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle via the 'traditional' civil rights movement, would take too long to be implemented or simply not introduced.

the first superbowl

Jan 15, 1967

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/packers-face-chiefs-in-first-super-bowlOn this day in 1967, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever world championship game of American football

three astronauts killed simulated launch

Jan 27, 1967

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/jan-27-1967-three-astronauts-killed-in-apollo-1-fire/On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission.

first heart transplant success

Dec 3, 1967

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-human-heart-transplantOn December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa

Martin Luther king Jr. assassinated

Apr 4, 1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmOBbxgxKvo
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot.

Robert F. Kennedy assassinated

Jun 6, 1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmc2EzkRDkIShortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot three times by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan after giving a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

neil armstrong successfully lands on the moon

Jul 20, 1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0ANeil A. Armstrong was a NASA astronaut and the first man on the moon or, more accurately, the first man to set foot on the moon. He was also an accomplished test pilot and a figure so large in American and world history that you can bet many generations from now people will still be talking about him, as well as his moon landing.

sesame street first airs on tv

Nov 10, 1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBPTd1gdWSMThe show has undergone significant changes throughout its history. The format of Sesame Street consists of a combination of commercial television production elements and techniques which have evolved to reflect the changes in American culture and the audience's viewing habits. With the creation of Sesame Street, producers and writers of a children's television show used, for the first time, educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content. It was also the first time a show's educational e