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Overview:
1960
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
First Televised Presidential Debates
Lasers Invented
1961
Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall Built
Peace Corps Founded
Soviets Launch First Man in Space
1962
Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup
Can
Cuban Missile Crisis
First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin
Wall
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring
1963
Betty Friedan Publishes the Feminine Mystique
JFK Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have
a Dream" Speech
1964
Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes
World Heavyweight Champion
Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued
1965
Japan's Bullet Train Opens
Los Angeles Riots
Malcolm X Assassinated
New York City Great Blackout
U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
1966
Black Panther Party Established
Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
1967
Che Guevara Killed
First Heart Transplant
First Super Bowl
Six-Day War in the Middle East
Stalin's Daughter Defects
Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated
Launch
1968
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Prague Spring
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
Tet Offensive
1969
ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
Charles Manson and "Family" Arrested
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the
Moon
Rock 'n' Roll Concert at Woodstock
Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of
an Accident
Sesame Street First Airs
Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO |