NEW YORK TIMES 60's
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1960-1969
By: María Juliana Garzón, Pedro Durán and Juan José Parra
Hippies and Feminism
Two new social movements
1960
Presidential elections
Richard Nixon VS John F. Kennedy
1961
Kennedy became the 35th President of USA
So let us begin anew--remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Failure of the Bahia Cochinos invasion
1962
Soviet Union starts space race, Yuri Gagarin first man in space
Soviet´s nuclear weapons were sent to Cuba. The tension between USA and URSS was worst than ever
Cuban´s expulsed out USA army from Cuba
1963
Marilyn Monroe dies
President Kennedy is murdered
USA put in orbit their first geostationary telecommunications satellite
JFK mistress scandal
United States of America was in mourning after the big loss
Martin Luther King Jr. protested in Washington
1964
One of the most important days for black rights
USA talks with Vietnam and supports the south of the country
1965
Malcolm X was murdered in NYC
1966
Intensive shooting by USA to North Vietnam
American military intervention in the Caribbean because of the political instability
President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1966
Uniform Time Act
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
1967
1968
Richard Nixon was elected as president
Communist China announced the H Bomb
USA militia creates ARPANET, later Internet
1969
Apollo XI, first man on the moon