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Nixon vs Kennedy
Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised presidential debate -
Soviets Launch 1st Man in Space
On board Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history becoming both the first person in the world to enter space and the first person to orbit the Earth. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest the world has come to nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. The Soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was shot while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade. -
Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon B Johnson signed the bill creating equal rights in voting, education, public accommodations, union membership and federally assisted programs regardless of race, color, religion or national origin. -
U.S. Sends Troops To Vietnam
President Johnson had ordered a deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase in Da Nang.This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam. -
Black Panther Party Established
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in October 15, 1966, in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. They began spreading eastward through the Black urban ghetto colonies across country. -
March on the Pentagon
Demonstrators including radicals, liberals, black nationalists, hippies, professors, women's groups, and war veterans march on the Pentagon.
police arrest 647 of the 50,000 to 150,000 involved -
Tet Offensive
General Vo Nguyen Giap, the man in charge of North Vietnam's army, believed it was time for the North Vietnamese to make a major surprise attack on South Vietnam. They attacked every major city in South Vietnam and focused on command and control centers. -
First U.S. troops withdrawn from South Vietnam
President Nixon orders the first troop withdraws from Vietnam. This was only the start of a massive troop withdraw. This event proved that the end of the war was nearing in Vietnam.
The 814 soldiers were the first of 25,000 troops that were withdrawn in the first stage of the U.S. disengagement from the war.
