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March 3 – Elvis Presley returns home from Germany to the United States, after being away on military duty for 2 years. March 5 – Elvis Presley receives his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. March 6 – Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
History is full of interesting stories that often go unnoticed. This Instagram account brings them to light, sharing some of the most fascinating facts and photos from the past. The post 40 ...
The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1. The 1960 United States census begins. There are 179,323,175 U.S. residents on this day. [5] All people from Latin America are listed as white, including blacks from the Dominican Republic, European whites from Argentina and Mexicans who resemble Native Americans.
When I was in school, history was one of my favorite subjects. I loved learning about entitled kings, the domestic lives of ancient civilizations, and how people used to smuggle books like they ...
1960s in the United States by state or territory (62 C) 1960s disestablishments in the United States (66 C, 4 P) 1960s establishments in the United States (68 C, 12 P)
There were a lot of things that “broke” the 1960s besides rock and roll: Black Power, Second Wave Feminism, drugs, and perhaps most significantly, the war in Vietnam, which also divided the ...