| 1961 |
Bay of
Pigs invasion.
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
Peace Corps founded.
Amnesty International founded.
Berlin Wall erected. |
| 1962 |
Marilyn
Monroe dies.
Cuban missile crisis.
Astronaut John Glenn orbits the earth. |
| 1963 |
President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Civil rights march in Washington, D.C.
Medgar Evers assassinated.
First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed. |
| 1964 |
Lyndon
Baines Johnson elected president of the U.S. and declares War on Poverty.
Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Palestinian Liberation Organization founded.
Beatles first U.S. tour and first American television appearance on the Ed
Sullivan Show.
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1965 |
25,000
students march in protest against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C.
Malcolm X assassinated.
Watts riots.
New York City blackout.
Ralph Nader's "Unsafe at Any Speed" published.
184,000 Americans in Vietnam. |
| 1966 |
Black
Panther Party founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.
Richard Speck kills 8 Chicago nurses.
Charles Whitman shoots and kills 12 people from the top of the tower at
the University of Texas.
New York City Walk for Love and Peace and Freedom.
385,000 Americans in Vietnam. |
| 1967 |
Che
Guevera captured and killed.
Summer of Love in San Francisco.
Monterey Pop Festival.
Anti-war protestors storm the Pentagon.
"Stop the Draft" movement organized.
Israel defeats Egypt in the Six-Day War.
Christiaan Bernard of South Africa performs the first heart transplant.
486,000 Americans in Vietnam. |
| 1968 |
Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Black uprisings in 125 U.S. cities.
Robert Francis Kennedy assassinated in California.
Chicago Democratic Convention and riots.
Richard M. Nixon elected president of the U.S.
"Whole Earth Catalog" published for the first time.
Tet offensive.
Massacre at My Lai.
Paris Peace Talks begin.
541,000 Americans in Vietnam. |
| 1969 |
Woodstock.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes first man on the moon.
Charles Manson and followers commit murders.
Rolling Stones' concert at Altamont.
Largest anti-war rally held in Washington, D.C. with over 500,000
marchers.
Miss Vickie marries Tiny Tim on the Tonight Show.
Supreme Court orders nationwide desegregation.
Chicago Eight trial.
American Indians seize Alcatraz and demand its return.
543,000 Americans in Vietnam. |
