Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1960-1969

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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released

Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City

First Televised Presidential Debates

Lasers Invented

Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Berlin Wall Built

Peace Corps Founded

Soviets Launch First Man in Space

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

Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique

JFK Assassinated

Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech

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

Japan's Bullet Train Opens

Los Angeles Riots

Malcolm X Assassinated

New York City Great Blackout

U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam

Black Panther Party Established

Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution

Mass Draft Protests in U.S.

Star Trek T.V. Series Airs

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

Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

Prague Spring

Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

Tet Offensive

ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created

Charles Manson and "Family" Arrested

Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon

Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock

Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident

Sesame Street First Airs

Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO

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