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top 10 moments from the 60s

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  • #1 1960

    #1 1960
    President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
    Cold War trivia: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a United Nations General Assembly meeting, protesting discussion of Soviet Union policy toward Eastern Europe.
    The Polaris missile is test-launched.

  • #2

    #2
    President Kennedy advises all "prudent families" to have a bomb shelter.
    John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States.
    President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.

  • #3

    #3
    October 14 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet
    October 22 - In a televised address, U.S. President John F.
    October 28 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.

  • #4

    #4
    President Kennedy is assasinated. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute.
    Congress enacts "equal pay for equal work" legislature for women.
    Two thirds of the world's automobiles are in the United States.
    Film goddess Marilyn Monroe is found dead of an apparent overdose. It becomes the most controversial death on record.

  • #5

    #5
    Ford Motors introduces the "Mustang".
    Studebaker-Packard introduces seat belts as standard equipment.
    Plans to build the New York World Trade Center are announced.
    The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand," forever changing the way rock-and-roll music sounds.The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, marking their first live performance on American television.

  • #6

    #6
    Medicare bill passes.
    34 people die in Watts ghetto riot.
    190,000 troops are in Vietnam.
    32,000 people make 54-mile "freedom march" from Selma to Montgomery.
    Malcolm X is assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, allegedly by Black Muslims.

  • #7

    #7
    The fourth of four lost H Bombs is found off the Spanish coast.
    U.S. troop strength in Vietnam is 400,000. U.S. deaths: 6,358. Enemy deaths: 77,115.
    Star Trek, the classic science fiction television series, debuts with its first episode, titled "The Man Trap."

  • #8

    #8
    Communist China announces the H Bomb.
    Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
    LSD declared an illegal by the United States government.

  • #9

    #9
    Richard Nixon is elected President.
    Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward.
    The Zodiac Killer is believed to have shot Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on Lake Herman Road, Benicia, San Francisco Bay, California.

  • #10

    #10
    Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
    The Woodstock Music and Art Fair are held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre farm near Bethel, N.Y. August 15th- 18th. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-goers
    Project Apollo: The Eagle lands on the lunar surface. The world watches in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon and erects first flagpoles in outer space to fly the American flag