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This timeline covers important events in the 1960's
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The very first presidential debates to be televised. It was between JFK and Nixon
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JFK is elected to be the president of the United States of America
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An invasion in which CIA trained exiles from Cuba tried to overthrow the Cuban government with the help of the US
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JFK gives his man on the moon speech encouraging all americans to work towards getting a man to and from the moon
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A confrontation between the forces of Soviet Union and the Cubans against the Americans which lasted for 13 days and almost started a nuclear war
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his speech which calls out for all racism in America to stop
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JFK is assassinated while on a parade in his open convertible car in texas.
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Persident Lyndon passes the civil rights act which outlawed any racial segregation in school, public places and workplaces
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President Lyndon passes the national voting right act which allows all African-Americans to vote
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The very first heart transplant was conducted an it ended in a success
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Martin Luth King Jr. was assassinated in his appartment building by James Earl Ray
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Robert F. Kennedy brother of JFK is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in California
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon fulfilling JFK's dream of launching a space mission to get a man to and from space safetly