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Major Events in the Sixties

 

 

 

 

Tonkin Gulf Resolution
1961
1965
President Kennedy Inaugurated
War On Poverty Launched
Peace Corps Founded
Violence In Selma
Bay of Pigs
Voting Rights Act Of '65
Kennedy-Khrushchev Summit
Riots In Watts
Berlin Crisis
Medicare
Immigration Act Of 1965
1962
1966
First American in Space
Miranda Decision
Steel Prices Rolled Back
National Organization Of Women Founded
US Commitment To Vietnam Deepens
1967
Prayer Unconstitutional In School
Large Scale War Protest Held
Enviromental Movement Launched
Johnson Meets Kosygin
First Black at University of Mississippi
1968
Cuban Missile Crisis
Tet Offensive In Vietnam
1963
McCarthy Wins 40% Of New Hampshire Vote
Feminine Mystique Published
Johnson Will Not Run For Reelection
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Martin Luther King Assassinated
March On Washington
Robert Kennedy Killed
University of Alabama Integrated
Violence Mars Democratic Convention
Medgar Evers Slain
Nixon Wins Election
Kennedy Visits Berlin
1969
President Kennedy Assassinated
Landing on the Moon
1964
Woodstock
Beatles in America
1970
American Troops Intervene In Dominican Republic
Invasion Of Cambodia
 
1972
  Nixon Goes to China
Warren Commission Report

1973

Civil Rights Act

Spiro Agnew Resigns

  Gerald Ford Becomes Vice President
1964 Election
Arab Oil Embargo
 
1974
  Saturday Night Massacre
  Arab Oil Embargo
  1974-Richard Nixon Resigns

 

 

 

 

 

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