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Elvis Presley becomes famous
His energized interpretations of songs combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines that coincided with the dawn of the civil rights movement, made him more controversial and popular. in 1958, he was drafted into the military service but later resumed back to his music career. -
Freedom Rides
In the Spring of 1961, student members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) went to Freedom Rides to protest against segregation on buses. They traveled from Washington, D.C. to Mississippi, When they went on strike, the authorities gave the Klu Klux Klan permission to strike against the riders. The protest secured the Interstate Commerce Commission ban on segregation in all facilities. -
University of Alabama integrated
The court of Alabama ordered that the University of Alabama admit African American students into classes. Governor George Wallace promised to prevent integration of the school which led him to stand in front of the school not allowing students inside. Governor Wallace eventually moved when President Kennedy called on the National Guard, which gave Governor the reputation of being a strong supporter of segregation. -
John F. Kennedy's assassination
Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved to the Kennedys. The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza striking President Kennedy in the neck and head.President Kennedy was rushed to the hospital but was later pronounced dead. -
U.S. involved in Vietnam War
The first American combat troops waded ashore at Chine Beach north of Da Nang. The Vietnam was was the downfall of President Johnson's legacy, with almost 60,000 Americans being killed. The Us got involved in the war because they wanted to prevent the communist takeover in South Vietnam which was part of the belief of the domino theory. -
Black Panthers
The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation. The practices of the late Malcolm X were deeply rooted in the theoretical foundations of the Black Panther Party. -
Man on the Moon
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon. He and Aldrin walked around for three hours. They did experiments. They picked up bits of moon dirt and rocks.
They put a U.S. flag on the moon and also left a sign on the moon. -
Pig pong Diplomacy
On April 10, 1971, the U.S. table tennis team arrived in China for a 10-day visit, becoming the first group of Americans in over 20 years to get a peek behind the “Bamboo Curtain.”Refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s. The event marked a thaw in Sino-American relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon. -
Watergate Scandal
Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972.The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by members of the Nixon administration, an impeachment process against the president that led to articles of impeachment, and the resignation of Nixon. -
Formation of Apple
Apple Computers, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices.Jobs and Wozniak started out building the Apple I in Jobs' garage and sold them without a monitor, keyboard, or casing. Apple was still doing well and in 1990 it posted its highest profits yet -
3 Mile Island Nuclear Plant Accident
The Three Mile Island power station is near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1979 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the #2 reactor. The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed. Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. A pair of Allied peace conferences at Yalta and Potsdam determined the fate of Germany’s territories. They split the defeated nation into four “allied occupation zones”: The eastern part of the country went to the Soviet Union, while the western part went to the United States.
