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4 African American Students
In a white only serving counter, 4 black american students refuse to leave until served, which served as great inspiration towards others for equal rights of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and encouraged others as well to do sit ins and similar actions.
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T.V. Shows
New T.V. shows of the 1960s.
The Flintstones
My Three Sons
The andy Griffith Show
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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy won the election for presidency and was the 35th president of the United States and the youngest president as well. -
U.S.A and Cuba
The United States breaks its diplomatic ties with Cuba to stop Castro's communism. -
Berlin Wall
East Germany begins to build the Berlin Wall to prevent its citizens from fleeing to West Germany and served as a border of communism and democracy during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile crisis
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev thought of the idea of placing missiles in Cuba that could reach the United States. To counter this threat the United States set a naval blockade around Cuba and were ready to attack if the Soviet Unions launched the missiles from Cuba. -
Cuban Missile crisis ends
The Soviet Union and the United States come to an agreement towards ending the Cuban missile crisis. The terms was for the Soviet Union to pull back all of their missiles back to Russia and that the United States will not engage Cuba. -
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII dies. -
Medgar Evers
NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is shot down in his driveway by a white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Jackson, Mississippi. -
I have a Dream
Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. Gives his "I have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial encourging the Civil Rights movement even more and inspiring millions. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Later that day Lyndon B. Johnson was announced the 36th president of the United States. -
Apollo accident
Three Apollo astronauts were killed in a spacecraft fire during simulated launch. -
Human Heart transplant
53 year old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated when he was on a balcony in a hotel in Memphis. The death of Martin Luther King Jr. sparked many riots around the United States. -
Nixon
Richard M. Nixon is announced the 37th president of the United States. -
Niel Armstrong
Niel Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon after Apollo 11 lands on the moon. -
Woodstock
Woodstock Festival was a gathering of about half a million Hippies to express how they felt and the opposition of the Vietnam War.
