World Events In the 1960's

Sit ins begain

Feb 1, 1960

4 black college students organize sit ins at segrageted eaterys

Tiros I was Launched

Apr 1, 1960

first weather sattilate launched by USA

American U-2

May 1, 1960

U-2 plane was shot down over USSR

50 Star flag debute

Jul 4, 1960

Jfk wins presidental campaign

Nov 8, 1960

USA cuts ties with Cuba

Jan 3, 1961

Plane Crash

Feb 15, 1961

Entire USA figure skating team dies in a plane crash near Brussles in Belguim

Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

Cuban exiles Went to over throw Fidle Castro

Sub-Obital flight

May 5, 1961

Allen Shepard flew in space

Pre-Vietnam

Feb 7, 1962

JFK annonces that if the USA military is fired apon they will retaliate

John Glenn orbits earth

Feb 20, 1962

He would circle the earth three times before returning to earth

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins

Oct 14, 1962

JFK blockaids military support from Cuba

Alcatraz is Closed

Mar 21, 1963

JFK orders the last 27 prisoner to be removed from the island

Dr. Martin Luthner King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech

Aug 28, 1963

John F. Kennedy assanation

Nov 22, 1963

in dallas texas JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald