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Major Events of the 1960's 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 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 Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1973 Warren Commission Report Gerald Ford Becomes Vice President 1964 Election 1974-Richard Nixon Resigns -