Top Ten Moments in 1960's

By jmor

  • FDA Approves the Birth Control Pill

    The food ans drug administration approves the worlds first commercially produced birth-controll made by G.D searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba.

  • JFK's Assassination

    A memeber from the blank hand, Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president in Dallas, Texas.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilites and employment.

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

  • General William C Westmoreland

    A United States Army four- star general, he was in command of all U.S military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964-1968

  • Assassinations of Civil Rights Leaders

    Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

  • Democratic National Convention

    A convention of the U.S Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at 20:18 UTC.

  • Woodstock

    A village in New York state, where 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival.