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The 60's timeline

By kyleA

  • Beginning of the 60's decade

  • First person to go into space and orbit Earth

    Yuri Gagarin is sent into space on board the Vostok 1. He bacame the first ever person to be sent into space and orbit around the earth.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    An unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba by the U.S. Their aim was to send an armed force funded by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.

  • JFK delivers his 'Man on the Moon' speech

  • Berlin Wall built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    During the Cold War, Cuba and the Soviet Union began storing nuclear in Cuba in preperation of launching them against the U.S. This was the closest the world ever came to nuclear warfare but was ended with an agreement to dismantle the missiles and return them back to the Soviet Union

  • President JFK is assassinated

  • Beatles become popular in America

  • U.S sends troops to Veitnam

  • Nation Organisation for Women (NOW) founded

  • Harold Holt disappears

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Neil Armstrong becomes first man on moon

  • ARPANET created

  • End of the 60's decade