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The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. -
The first 1960 presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA); held on September 26, 1960. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. -
The Beatles made their historic first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, drawing a record-breaking 73 million viewers. Performing at Studio 50 in New York, they played "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There," and "I Want to Hold Your Hand," -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a 1964 congressional act granting President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam following alleged attacks on U.S. destroyers, serving as the legal basis for the Vietnam War without a formal declaration of war, and was later repealed in 1971 amidst growing anti-war sentiment. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. -
At the Democratic National Convention in August 1968, delegates came to Chicago, as activists gathered to protest policies at home and abroad. -
On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. -
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 60 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
The Chicago 8 trial (later known as the Chicago 7) began on September 24, 1969, and lasted five months, concluding on February 18, 1970. The trial took place in the federal district courthouse in Chicago, with Judge Julius Hoffman presiding over the conspiracy case stemming from protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
The Beatles broke up due to a combination of creative differences, business conflicts, strained relationships (especially John Lennon's departure and Paul McCartney's perceived overreach), and the death of manager Brian Epstein, culminating in McCartney's public announcement in April 1970, though the final legal split occurred in 1974. -
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen fired 67 rounds into a crowd of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War expansion into Cambodia at Kent State University. The tragedy left four students dead -
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion before the point of fetal viability.