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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a group dedicated to nonviolent demonstrations and protests.
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The first televised debate was between Nixon and JFK - and its release helped JFK win the presidency.
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The Flintstones aired at 8:30 PM, and very quickly became a hit. It was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex sleeping in one bed.
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President John F. Kennedy is elected.
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Ruth had a home run streak of 60, set in the 20's, and Maris got 61.
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Mr. Yuri Gagarin was both the first cosmonaut to go into outer space and one of the crew of the first successful crewed spaceflight.
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The Berlin Wall is constructed for the purpose of keeping East Berliners from escaping to the West.
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The Port Huron statement was a political manifesto written by the Students for a Democratic Society.
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Marilyn Monroe, a popular actress and a symbol of the sexual revolution of the 60's, dies of acute barbiturate poisoning.
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James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, known as "Ole Miss" to some. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union where US missiles in Turkey and Italy were matched with Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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The first James Bond film, titled "Dr. No", starring Sean Connery and directed by Terence Young, made 59 million dollars at the box office (adjusted for inflation: 200 million in 2023).
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Doctor Martin King (known to many as Martin Luther King Jr.) delivers a speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial. -
JFK is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on the 22nd of November, '63.
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The Beatles, a British rock band formed in 1960, arrived in the United States and began touring in New York.
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The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on the 9th of February, 1964. 74 million viewers saw them perform five songs: "All My Loving", "Till There Was You", "She Loves You", "I Saw Her Standing There", and "I Wanna Hold Your Hand".
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The NY World's Fair was an international exposition held in NYC's borough of Queens.
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Democrat incumbent Lyndon Johnson beat his Republican opponent B. Goldwater in a landslide victory.
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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) was a human rights activist and an African American revolutionary.
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The Watts riots were a series of riots that took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding area in Los Angeles. The riots were motivated by anger at the racist practices of the LAPD, as well as grievances over segregation.
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"Star Trek", along with the similarly named "Star Wars", laid the foundation for the space opera genre we know and love today.
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The Summer of Love was a series of social and political movements that originated in San Francisco. Counter-culture was at the forefront, and so were anti-Vietnam War messages.
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The AFL-NFL World Championship Game, known retroactively as Super Bowl, has captured the hearts of many over the decades. -
Ali refused the Vietnam war draft on the grounds of religion just before his fight with Zora Foley.
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"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", or "Sgt. Pepper's" for short, is the eighth studio album from the Beatles.
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LSD was synthesized by Dr. Albert Hofmann (born in Switzerland) for use as a pharmaceutical drug - its psychedelic effects weren't found out until years later.
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The Tet Offensive was a major escalation of the Vietnam War, being one of the largest military campaigns during the war itself.
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Martin Luther King Jr., an American activist and minister, is assassinated. -
Robert Kennedy, JFK's brother, is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan on the 5th of June, 1968.
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A series of protests were held during the 1968 DNC, most of them being anti-Vietnam War. As they were being dragged off, protestors shouted "The whole world is watching".
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The Stonewall riots acted as the cradle for the modern gay rights movement in America - it is incredibly important.
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Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Pilot Buzz Aldrin land on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
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The Woodstock Concert or "Woodstock" was a counter-cultural music festival that attracted an audience of over 460,000 people.
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President Nixon is elected.
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The Altamont Free Concert was a counterculture rock concert held on the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, CA.