1960s Newspaper Project
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1. Xerox introduces the first commercial document reproduction machine (1960)
2. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho premieres (1960)
3. JFK-Nixon debates televised (1960)
4. Construction begins on Berlin Wall (1961)
5. Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home run record of 60 (1961)
6. JFK creates the peace Corps (1961)
7. Minimum wage increased to $1.15 (1961)
8. Alan Shepard make first US manned space flight on May 5th (1961)
9. Ray Kroc purchases the McDonalds brother's restaurant chain and begins his company's enormous growth (1961)
10. JFK resolves the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
11. Sonny Liston wins world heavyweight boxing title, knocking out Floyd Patterson (1962)
12. Philip Morris introduces "Marlboro Country" advertising campaign (1962)
13. John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth (1962)
14. Four Alabama schoolchildren are killed when a bomb destroys a black church in Birmingham (1963)
15. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring published which leads to the Clean Air and Energy Act (1963)
16. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is published (1963)
17. Weight Watchers is founded by Queens, NY housewife (1963)
18. AT&T introduces touch-tone phones (1963)
19. Medgar Evers, a Civil Rights activist and NAACP leader, is assassinated in Jackson, Miss. (1963)
20. Malcolm X splits with the Nation of Islam (1963)
21. Martin Luther King delivers "I Have a Dream" (1963)
22. JFK assassinated (1963)
23. Lee Harvey Oswald says, "I am just a patsy" (1963)
24. Jack Ruby kills Oswald (1963)
25. Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb premieres (1964)
26. Cassius Clay wins World Heavyweight Title at the age of 25 by defeating Sonny Liston (1964)
27. Civil Rights Act passed (1964)
28. Studebaker becomes first US auto manufacturer to offer seat belts as standard equipment (1964)
29. The Surgeon General's Report directly links cigarette smoking to lung cancer for the first time (1964)
30. Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
31. Warren Commission releases report on JFK assassination (1964)
32. Watts Riots in Los Angeles (1965)
33. Ralph Nader publishes Unsafe at Any Speed which leads to mandatory seat belts in all automobiles (1965)
34. Massive troop buildups ordered to put an end to the Viet Nam conflict (1965)
35. The miniskirt is invented in London (1965)
36. Bob Dylan goes electric at Newport Folk Festival (1965)
37. Malcolm X assassinated (1965)
38. Diet Pepsi is introduced (1965)
39. Sony introduces the first Betamax "videocorder" (1965)
40. The National Organization of Women is founded by Betty Friedan (1966)
41. Eight nurses are murdered in Chicago by Richard Speck (1966)
42. Star Trek begins its first season on NBC (1966)
43. Pampers introduces the first disposable diaper (1966)
44. The Monkees premieres on NBC(1966)
45. The Beatles release Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
46. First heart transplants are attempted in South Africa and New York (1967)
47. Dr. Timothy Leary endorses LSD use and advises hippies to "turn on, tune in and drop out" (1967)
48. Muhammad Ali is stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing induction into the US Army (1967)
49. Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde released (1967)
50. The Green Bay Packers win Superbowl I (1967)
51. LSD shown to damage chromosomes and cause birth defects (1967)
52. Amana introduces the first microwave oven for US consumers (1967)
53. Martin Luther King assassinated (1968)
54. Bobby Kennedy assassinated (1968)
55. The Tet Offensive in Viet Nam (1968)
56. George Romero's Night of the Living Dead premieres (1968)
57. Police attack protestors outside Democratic National Convention in Chicago (1968)
58. Led Zepplin I released (1968)
59. Jimi Hendrix performs at Woodstock (1969)
60. Apollo 11 lands on moon (1969)
61. The Tate-LaBiance murders committed by Charles Manson and his murdering hippie family (1969)
62. The Internet has its beginning in a University of California lab (1969)
63. The Grateful Dead release Live/Dead (1969)
64. President Richard Nixon officially unveils his "Vietnamization" program (1969)
65. Sesame Street begins appearing on PBS (1969)
66. The Godfather by Mario Puzo published (1969)
67. Janis Joplin dies of drug overdose (1970)
68. National Guardsman kill unarmed student protestors at Kent State (1970)
