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African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s but when they were refused service, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South.
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Theodore Maiman invented the ruby laser considered to be the first successful optical or light laser
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70 million American viewers watched the first of four televised presidential debates between candidates Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy
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An organization sponsored by the US government that sends young people to work as volunteers in developing countries.
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1,200 exiles landed on Cuba's Bay of Pigs
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ramapgin whites near Anniston, Alabama burned a bus carrying an interracial group of Freedom riders
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Khrushchev threatened to make a rteaty with East Germany and cut off Western access to Berlin.
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-Made of barbed-wire and concrete
-designed to plug the heavy population drain from Eas Germany to West Germany through Berlin -
-Kennedy ordered a naval "quarantine" or Cuba
-Kennedy demanded immediate removal of threatening weaponry
-what started as a trivial incident escalated into a confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union -
-American and Soviet tanks began a gradual withdrawal from stand-off positions either side of the border
-Khrushchev agreed to pull missiles out of Cuba
-U.S. agreed to end the quarantine
-U.S. also agreed to remove missiles held in Turkey -
-it generated a storm of controversy over the use of chemical pesticides
-took Carson four years to complete -
-groundbreaking feminist book
-examines and confronts this stay-at-home mom role for women
-Friedan's book helped change the way women were perceived within U.S. society in the latter half of the century -
-Washington, D.C.
-urged Americans to abandon the view of the USSR as a Devil-ridden land filled with fanatics
-tried to lay the foundations for a realistic peace policy with the Soviet Union -
King led 200,000 black and white civil rights demonstrators on a peacful "March on Washington"
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-greeted by 5,000 screaming fans when they arrived at the New York airport
-appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show -
-signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
-outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women -
-African American nationalist and religious leader
-assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights -
-President Lyndon B. Johnson decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam
-3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam -
-begin a five day siege
-34 dead
-property destruction in excess of $200 million -
-Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles were left without electricity for up to 12 hours
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-50,000 anti-war protesters took part in a rally in NYC
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-Founded by Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique
"The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men." -
the government medical program for citizens over the age of 65
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expanded the National Register of Historic Places to include historic sites of regional, state, and local significance
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-first black United States Senator in eighty-five years
-was the Republican candidate from Massachusetts and former Attorney General of that state -
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-into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
-in effect on October 10, 1967 -
would remain on the Supreme Court for 24 years before retiring for health reasons, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution
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North Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong forces attacked both towns and cities in South Vietnam, breaking the ceasefire that had been called for the Vietnamese holiday of Tet (the lunar new year).
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-place where President Lincoln was assassinated
-restored to its original appearance and use as a theatre -
The FBI investigated the crime, but many believed them partially or fully responsible for the assassination. An escaped convict by the name of James Earl Ray was arrested
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Robert F. Kennedy was shot three times by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan after giving a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California
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-part of the Apollo 11 mission
-A few minutes later, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin followed in Armstrong's steps -
-declar the Nixon Doctrine that expected Asian allies to care for their own military defense
-heavily protested throughout the remainder of the year -
-500,000 young people converged on Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York
-There were lots of drugs, lot of sex and nudity, and lots of mud
-The Woodstock Music Festival became an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture -
-Five members convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago
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-John Lennon left the band in September of 1969
-a public announcment was made by Paul in April of 1970. -
-held with millions of American participating in anti-pollution demonstrations
-school children walking to school instead of riding the bus -
-The National Guard Opened Fire on the Kent State Campus
-killing four and wounding nine others -
-forty-four day raid by South Viet soldiers
-aid of United States air and artillery -
begin again by United States forces against Hanoi and Haiphong
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-lead to a strategic arms pact, SALT I
-White House would announce the sale of American wheat to the Soviet Union -
Five men, one of whom says he used to work for the CIA, are arrested at 2:30 a.m. trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex.
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-eight members of the Palestinian terrorist organization, Black September, snuck into the Olympic Village at the XXth Olympic Games
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-Legalizes Abortion in the U.S.
-Harry Blackmun wrote the Court’s opinion.
-The Court deemed abortion a fundamental right under the United States Constitution, thereby subjecting all laws attempting to restrict it to the standard of strict scrutiny -
-A cease-fire went into effect
-fighting soon resumed between North and South Vietnam -
-kidnapped at 16
-Getty was tethered to a stake and tortured
-took five months and the slicing off of the young man's ear, (without anaesthetic) before Paul's grandfather paid a ransom -
-Spiro Agnew becomes the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace
-he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political corruption
-fined $10,000, sentenced to three years probation -
-a group of men and women beat up her fiancé, threw her in the trunk of their car and drove off
-kidnappers already shot two Oakland school officials with cyanide-tipped bullets, killing one and seriously wounding the other -
three farmers were drilling holes in the hopes of finding water to dig wells when they came upon some ancient terracotta pottery shards
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-first president in American history to resign
-"I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." -
gunmen killed four Phalangists during an attempt on Pierre Jumayyil's life
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total of 602 reported cases and 431 deaths
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-Kills Over 240,000
-magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the Chinese city of Tangshan -
-Biko was driven to Pretoria, naked and manacled to the floor of a Land Rover
-was given an intravenous drip by a newly qualified doctor who had no information about him other than that he was refusing to eat -
-ordained in 1946
-first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years -
-Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones instructed his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced fruit punch
-912 Peoples Temple members drank punch and died -
-America’s worst commercial nuclear accident
-accident was the result of both mechanical and human error
-public fear over the release of radioactive gases after accident -
-shored up a Conservative-led government
-favored privatization rather than government expansion
-led the country through the Falklands War with Argentina -
-internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless
-won India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 -
The original Sony Walkman, the first personal stereo tape deck, which made its debut in 1979.
