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If you are someone who loves vinyl records, coke-bottle glasses and dancing the Twist, then check out these items from the 1960s that are worth a bucket of money in today’s dollars. Volkswagen Vans
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 ...
1952 – The debut of the Today show on NBC, originally hosted by Dave Garroway is the fourth longest running talk show on television. 1952 – ANZUS Treaty enters into force; 1952 – Immigration and Nationality Act; 1952 – In the United States presidential election, Dwight D. Eisenhower elected as president, Richard Nixon elected as vice ...
October 12 – John F. Kennedy speaks before the Ministerial Association of Houston, Texas, saying, in part, "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the American President, should he be Catholic, how to act; and where no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners ...
The urban crisis of the 1960s continued to escalate in the 1970s, with major episodes of riots in many cities every summer. The postwar suburbanization boom had left America's inner cities neglected, as middle-class whites gradually moved out. Rundown housing was increasingly filled by an underclass, with high unemployment rates and high crime ...
How the economy shaped the 1960s — and our current era. The economy of the 1960s shaped that decade's highs and lows to an extent that is perhaps underappreciated today and also echoes current ...
People who love the 1960s need to add these locations to their travel bucket lists to experience and remember the things that made the decade so important.
Miss America 1960s delegates (18 P) 1960s in American music (12 C, 14 P) P. 1960s in American politics (12 C, 3 P) Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (8 C, 73 P)