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*Release of Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog"
"Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley is a blues song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was recorded in Los Angeles and released by Peacock Records in March 1953. "Hound Dog" spent 14 weeks in the R&B charts, and spent half of them as #1. Elvis was an icon of popular culture, in both music and film. -
*1960s Counterculture
The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout the United States. Social tensions developed concerning issues regarding civil rights, human sexuality, and women's rights. New cultural forms which celebrated experimentation, modern incarnations of Bohemianism, and the rise of the hippie and other alternative lifestyles also emerged during this time. -
*Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
Brown v. Board of Education meant that the University of Alabama had to be desegregated. When two African American students tried to register George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of the students in protest of integration. When Wallace refused to move President John F Kennedy called for 100 troops from the Alabama National Guard to be sent to assist federal officials. Wallace eventually stepped down. Click for video -
*JFK Assassinated
President John F. Kennedy was in Dallas, Texas campaining, where he was also assassinated by a bullet wound from a sniper. The presidential limousine was passing a grassy knoll on the north side of Elm Street at the moment of the fatal head shot. As the motorcade left the plaza, police officers and spectators ran up the knoll and from a railroad bridge over Elm Street (the triple underpass), to the area behind a five-foot high stockade fence atop the knoll
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*United States Sends Troops to Fight the Vietnam War
The first U.S. combat units arrive in Vietnam in March of 1965. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson began sending U.S. ground troops to delay the defeat of the South Vietnamese Army. At first, Army combat units played a defensive role, protecting the South Vietnamese capital, and other important cities and bases. The president authorized the Army to send 20,000 support troops to establish a supply network.
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Robert Kennedy Assassinated
The assassination of Robert Francis Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, took place in Los Angeles, California, during the campaign season for the United States Presidential election of 1968. After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. He died in the Good Samaritan Hospital. -
Niel Armstong's First Step on the Moon
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. At the bottom of the ladder, Armstrong said "I'm going to step off the LEM now" (referring to the Apollo Lunar Module). He then turned and set his left boot on the surface at 2:56 UTC July 21, 1969,[80] then spoke the famous words "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
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*Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office in Washington, D.C. The Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress, the Nixon administration's resistance to its probes led to a constitutional crisis.
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Hurricane Carmen
Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season. Entering the Gulf of Mexico,
Carmen began threatening the major city of New Orleans. It then veered westward and made landfall on the marshland of southern Louisiana, eventually dissipating over eastern Texas.
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President Ford's Attempted Assassination
The Gerald Ford assassination was attempted by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. She wanted to make a statement to people who refused to stop environmental pollution and its effects on air, trees, water, and animals.. Although Fromme stood very near Ford and pointed a pistol at him in the public grounds of the California, her gun failed to fire and no one was injured. -
President Jimmy Carter Suffers Heat Exhaustion
President Jimmy Carter collapsesd while running a six-mile race, sparking fears he suffered a heart attack. White House physicians diagnosed heat exhaustion and declared him to be perfectly normal. In fact, ninety minutes later, Carter handed out trophies at the finish line. -
President Reagan's Assassination Attempt
The attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan occurred 69 days into his presidency. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. He suffered a punctured lung and heavy internal bleeding, but prompt medical attention allowed him to recover quickly.
