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  • Sharpville Massacre

    The Sharpville Massacre happened in South Africa when Police officers shot and killed 69 protesters

  • Birth Control

    Birth Control
    The birth control pill was aproved by th FDA.

  • Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

    Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
    Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is the most well known horror movie ever. It came out in 1960 and is incredibly famous.

  • Presidential Debates

    Presidential Debates
    The presidential debates were telivised for the very first time.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba, undertaken by the CIA-sponsered paramilitary group Brigade 2506

  • Berlin Wall Built

    Berlin Wall Built
    The Berlin Wall was a barrier that completly cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and East Berlin.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day Confrontation between the U.S. and The Soviet Union, over Soviet ballistics missiles deployed in Cuba.

  • Famous Alcatraz Escape

    Famous Alcatraz Escape
    The Alcatraz escape was a prison escape attempt by American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris to leave Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island using an inflatable raft.

  • Monk Sets Himself on Fire

    Monk Sets Himself on Fire
    Thich Quang Duc, a Mahayan Monk, burned himself in a busy intersection, to protest the persicution of Budhists by the South Veitnemese.

  • First Episode of Dr. Who airs

    First Episode of Dr. Who airs