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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960 by young people dedicated to nonviolent, direct action tactics. -
The first-ever televised debate between presidential candidates Nixon and John F. Kennedy. -
The first animated series with a prime-time slot on television. The show follows the lives of Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their pet dinosaur, Dino, and they later on have a baby girl named Pebbles. -
Ran in the 1960 presidential election. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president -
construction began to seal off the borders around West Berlin, first with barbed wire and a few days later with walls. It hoped this measure would put an end to the mass exodus to Berlin. It also wanted to stabilize its power and document its sovereignty to the outside world. -
In 1961 Roger Maris hit 61 home runs, breaking Babe Ruths record. -
A statement saying that students should have a say in the decisions that affect their life. -
Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her depression, were littered around the room. -
James Meredith officially became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi, he had to be protected and guarded 24/7 at the University. -
Was the premiere of the first James Bond film, Dr. No. -
a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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A public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas. -
It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a British rock-and-roll band. -
The 73 million viewers saw them perform five songs: "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There," and "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Live on television. -
The fair showed technological advancements. And for companies to show off their inventions and products. -
The fair showed technological advancements. And for companies to show off their inventions and products.
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Lyndon B Johnson, Democrat defeats Barry Goldwater, Republican by a landslide. -
African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City. -
The riots started because of the arrest of an African American man, Marquette Frye, by a white California Highway Patrol officer on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. -
Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. -
Gene Roddenberry the write rand producer writes the show Star Trek, the travels of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise, whose five-year mission is to explore space and, as stated in the title sequence. -
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park -
The first NFL World Championship Game was an American football game played on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, Played between the Packers and Chiefs where the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first-ever Super Bowl. -
Ali arrived to be inducted in the United States Armed Forces, however, he refused and said his religion forbade him from serving. -
The album proved revolutionary for its psychedelic tone, experimental studio effects, and musical contribution to the late 1960s. -
First African American Supreme Court Justice. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. -
During the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive consisted of simultaneous attacks by about 85,000 troops under the direction of the North Vietnamese government. -
He was shot to death on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
In 1968 LSD was classified as a Schedule I drug. -
Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and pronounced dead the following day. -
A bunch of protests against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Nixon of the Republican Party from California who previously served as vice president for two terms under president Dwight D. Eisenhower, took office following his close victory. -
The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, was raided by the police. Nearly 400 people joined a riot that lasted 45 minutes and resumed on the following nights. -
Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo on July 20, 1969, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface. -
The Woodstock Music Art Fair took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Over half a million people came to a 600-acre farm to hear 32 acts (leading and emerging performers of the time) play over the course of four days. -
The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, hosted by The Rolling Stones, held at the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, California 300,000 attended the concert.