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John F. Kennedy wins the U.S. Presidential Election after defeating Republican Richard Nixon. Kennedy became the first president and was the youngest person to have been elected into the highest office at the time.JFK was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963.
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Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space.
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Construction on the Berlin Wall begins in an effort to separate East and West Berlin.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis has the world on the edge of another World War as the United States and USSR come close to launching nuclear attacks.The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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U.S. Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives is famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC.
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United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The Civil Rights Act is a law the United States made to outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.hat
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The Voting Rights Act is signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. This law aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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Botswana and Lesotho gain independence from England.
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Thurgood Marshall is appointed to the Supreme Court and becomes the first African-American
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Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in April by James Earl Ray
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to arrive on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission.
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