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May 9, 1969: excursion train on the Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway as part of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial May 1 – Semiconductor company AMD is founded. May 10 – Zip to Zap , a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota , by the National Guard.
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 ...
1969 was a year of turmoil and destruction. The conflict in Vietnam entered its sixth year with no end in sight, as the spring "saw the longest and most violent student strike in American history". [1]: 511 Vietnam was an important and all-encompassing topic that covered television, college campuses, newspapers, and conversation.
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.
February 13 – Gary Patterson, American football coach; February 14 – Jim Kelly, American football player; February 18 – Tony Anselmo, animator and voice actor [9] February 19 – John Paul Jr., racing driver (d. 2020) February 20 – Wendee Lee, voice actress; February 21 – Henry G. Brinton, writer and minister
The history of the United States from 1964 to 1980 includes the climax and end of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.
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CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties; Civil rights movement; Civil rights movements; Committee on Appeal for Human Rights; List of covers of Time magazine (1960s) Cuban Missile Crisis; Culinary Revolution