World Events In the 1960's

  • Sit ins begain

    Sit ins begain
    4 black college students organize sit ins at segrageted eaterys
  • Tiros I was Launched

    Tiros I was Launched
    first weather sattilate launched by USA
  • American U-2

    American U-2
    U-2 plane was shot down over USSR
  • 50 Star flag debute

    50 Star flag debute
  • Jfk wins presidental campaign

    Jfk wins presidental campaign
  • USA cuts ties with Cuba

  • Plane Crash

    Plane Crash
    Entire USA figure skating team dies in a plane crash near Brussles in Belguim
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    Cuban exiles Went to over throw Fidle Castro
  • Sub-Obital flight

    Allen Shepard flew in space
  • Pre-Vietnam

    JFK annonces that if the USA military is fired apon they will retaliate
  • John Glenn orbits earth

    He would circle the earth three times before returning to earth
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis begins

    The Cuban Missile Crisis begins
    JFK blockaids military support from Cuba
  • Alcatraz is Closed

    JFK orders the last 27 prisoner to be removed from the island
  • Dr. Martin Luthner King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech

    Dr. Martin Luthner King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech
  • John F. Kennedy assanation

    in dallas texas JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald