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(November 21) Kennedy reaches an agreement with Khrushchev on the removal of the missiles, ending the almost conflict after thirty-eight days.

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(July 29) Congress passes the Civil Rights Act. It banned discrimination in jobs, voting and accommodations.

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(August 7) The Tonkin Resolution is passed by Congress, authorizing the president powers to take action in Vietnam after North Vietnamese boats attacked two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

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(November 24) Lee Harvey Oswald is killed in police custody by Jack Ruby on live television.

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(May 25) President Kennedy announces his intention to place a man on the moon by the end of the decade, launching the Apollo project.

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(November 21) The Internet, called Arpanet during initial development, is invented at Department of Defense by the Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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(November 15) Over two hundred and fifty thousand anti-Vietnam war demonstrators marched on Washington, D.C. to peacefully protest the war.

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(July 25) President Richard M. Nixon announces his new Vietnam policy, declaring the Nixon Doctrine which would expect Asian allies to care for their own military defense.

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(January 25) Four-party Vietnam War peace talks begin.

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Cesar Chavez forms the United Farm Workers to represent migrant Filipino farm workers and improve their wages, working conditions, etc.

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(June 20) Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. become the first men to land on the moon, completing the Apollo mission.

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(January 20) Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States.

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(June 5) Senator Robert F. Kennedy, is shot at a campaign victory celebration in Los Angeles dies one day later.

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(May 10) Peace talks between North Vietnam and the US begin in Paris, but they degenerated and lead to no agreement.

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(February 13) Ford's Theater, the site of Lincoln's assassination, reopens to the public after being restored to its original appearance and use as a theater but now including the Ford's Theater National Historic Site.

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(December 22) Prisoners from the U.S.S Pueblo Incident are released. North Korea still holds possession of the U.S.S. Pueblo, even today.

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(January 23) The U.S.S. Pueblo incident occurs - North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo and its crew in the Sea of Japan, accusing it of violating territorial waters for the purpose of spying.

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(April 4) Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.

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(June, July, August) Freedom Summer. A volunteer campaign in launched in June to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. This caused many race riots, particularly in northern cities.

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(February 10) The 25th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, which outlines the procedures for filling vacancies in the presidency and vice presidency.

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(October 2) Thurgood Marshall is sworn into office as the first black Supreme Court Justice.

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(October 10) The Outer Space Treaty takes effect.

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(January 27) The Outer Space Treaty, which forms the basis of international space law, is signed into force by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.

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The Counterculture Movement of the 1960's, or the Hippie Movement, that rejected cultural norms and focused on drugs, love, peace, and happiness, is sometimes considered to begin in this year.

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(June 30) NOW, the National Organization for Women, is formed in Washington, DC.

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(July 1) Medicare, medical program for citizens over the age of 65, begins.

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(April 28) Melissa Rose Bordeaux is born at Central Carolina Hospital in North Carolina.

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(June 13) Miranda v. Arizona further defines the due process clause of Fourteenth Amendment and establishes Miranda rights.

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(August 11) The Watts Race Riots, sometimes called the Watts Rebellion, in Los Angeles begin a five day siege over suspected police brutality. They resulted in the death of thirty-four people, 3,438 arrests, and property damage in excess of $200 million.

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(July 20) Bob Dylan releases his hit single, Like a Rolling Stone.

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(October 15) Protests against the Vietnam Was begin in earnest with the first public burning of a draft card. It was coordinated by an anti-war group of students, the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

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(August 6) The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed into law by President Johnson. It would outlaw the requirement literacy tests in order to qualify to vote.

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(January 4) President Johnson proclaims his goal of a "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.

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(February 7) President Johnson orders the continuous bombing of North Vietnam.

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(August 2) The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, also known as the USS Maddox Incident, occurs and pushes the US further into the Vietnam War due to two separate confrontations.

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(February 19) Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, which is credited with sparking a second-wave of feminism and drawing back a cover on the general unhappiness of women.

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(March 1) The Peace Corps is established.

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(June 10) The Equal Pay Act is signed into law by Kennedy. It amended the Fair Labor Standards Act and aimed to abolish wage disparity based on sex.

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(July 2) The Civil Rights Act is signed by President Johnson.

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(April 22) The New York World's Fair opens in Queens, New York. Exhibits from over eighty nations appeared over it's two seasons, and over 50 million people attended.

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(February 25) Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) wins the World Heavyweight Championship in Boxing.

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(January 13) Beatlemania begins in United States with the release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," their first North American hit. (January 20) The Beetles release their first U.S. album "Meet the Beatles."

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(November 22) President Kennedy is shot by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald while driving in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Consequently, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States.

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(August 28) The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. and Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial bring over 200,000 people to Washington to advocate for equal rights.

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(August 5) The United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which bars all nuclear testing above ground. This treaty is also known as the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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(June 17) The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case of Abington School District vs. Schempp that laws requiring the recitation of Bible verses or school-sponsored Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional.

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(February 10) U.S. pilot Gary Powers, after being captured in 1960 by Soviet forces, is exchanged for a captured Soviet spy in Berlin.

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Fun Fact: 1961 is the year in which Hidden Figures begins, with Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughn working in the segregated West Area Computers Division of the Langley Research Division in Hampton, Virginia.

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(March 21) The removal of the last twenty-seven prisoners of Alcatraz, the island prison in San Francisco Bay, is ordered by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Alcatraz is considered closed on this day, ending years of suffering.

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(October 14) The Cuban Missile Crises begins. President Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade of military equipment on Cuba in response to Soviet Union building offensive missiles on the island.

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(October 1) Three thousand troops accompany James Meredith as riot protection as he enters the University of Mississippi as the first black student.

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(February 20) Lt. Colonel Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut in orbit in the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. He circled the earth three times before returning to earth, remaining in space for four hours and fifty-five minutes. This flight set the US and Soviet Union on equal standing in the Space Race.

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(December 28) President Kennedy allows The National Park Service to extend its reach into the U.S. Virgin Islands when he proclaims the Buck Island Reef as a National Monument. The reef includes an underwater nature trail and one of the most beautiful marine gardens in the Caribbean Sea.

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(April 17) The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro, fails.

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(August 13) Construction of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet bloc begins, segregating Berlin. The wall would last for twenty-eight years until torn down by rebels.

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(May 5) The first U.S. manned sub-orbital space flight is completed when Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. is launched 116.5 miles above the earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida inside a Mercury capsule.

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(January 3) The U.S. Government severs diplomatic and consular relations with the Cuban government due to disputes over naturalization of US businesses in Cuba.

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(November 8) Senator John F. Kennedy is elected to succeed Eisenhower as the 35th President of the United States. The 1960 campaign for president had seen the first televised debate in US history.

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(July 4) The fifty star flag of the United States that is used today is debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, honoring the admission of Hawaii into the union in 1959.

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(May 1) An American U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down by Soviet forces, U.S. pilot Gary Powers is captured, and the Paris summit conference is cancelled. (August 19) Powers is sentenced by the Soviet Union to ten years in prison for espionage.

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(February 1) Four white college students in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter to protest it's inequality. Inspired by this, seventy thousand students staged sit-in's across the nation for the next eight months.