The 1960's

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    The 1960's

  • FIrst televised presidenial debate.

    FIrst televised presidenial debate.
    The debate was between Richard Nixon and John F. Kenneny; John F. Kenneny won the presidency.

  • Jonh F. Kennedy becomes presdient.

    Jonh F. Kennedy becomes presdient.
    At the age of 43 became the 35 president.

  • Yuri Gagarin becomes first human to orbit Earth

    Yuri Gagarin becomes first human to orbit Earth
    Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Cosmonaught, aboard the Vostok 3KA-3. He became both the first human to travel into space, as well as, the first to orbit the Earth.

  • Bay of pIgs

    Bay of pIgs
    The invasion began when a CIA-financed and trained group of Cuban refugees landsedin Cuba and attempted to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. It was a failure.

  • Alan Shepard becomes first American in space.

    Alan Shepard becomes first American in space.
    At the age of 47, he was the oldest in the space program at the time. He was piloting Freedom 7. The entire process was televisied.

  • Berlin Wall built

    Berlin Wall built
    East Germany began to build the Berlin Wall, seperating East and West Berlin.

  • Roger Maris hits 61 home runs.

    Roger Maris hits 61 home runs.
    At rhe age of 27, Mathis had broken Babe Ruth's previous home run record of 60.

  • Walmart opens.

    Walmart opens.
    Sam walton opened the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas.

  • Marilyn Monroe dies

    Marilyn Monroe dies
    At 36 years old, Marilyn Monroe overdoes on sleeping pills, killing herself.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. makes his "I Have A Dream" speech.

    Martin Luther King Jr. makes his "I Have A Dream" speech.
    This speech goes down in history as one of the most infuential things for segragation.

  • Valentina Tereshova becomes the first woman in space.

    Valentina Tereshova becomes the first woman in space.
    A Russian Cosmonaught who piloted Vostok 6, becoming the first woman in space.

  • President John. F. Kennedy gets assassinated

    President John. F. Kennedy gets assassinated
    When he was in Dealy Plaza, Dallas Texas, he was going down Elm street. There were three shots fired, first getting shot in the neck, then killed by a shot to the head. Lee Harvey Oswald was the one person the goverment believes to be the one to have fired all the shots.

  • Winson Churchill dies

    Winson Churchill dies
    On January 15, 1965, Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke. He dies nine days later, at the age of 90.

  • Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated.

    Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated.

  • Moon landing

    Moon landing
    Buzz Aldrin becomes the first human to walk on the moon, accombonyed by Neil Armstrong.