1960's in Brief
Initially compiled by Knockback. Further additions by caleb, Ancient Spirit

The following events happend in and around the 1960's...

• Germany split into East and West with Berlin Wall created (1961)
• Space Race between US and Soviet Union (Soviet Union beats US into space by a few weeks, 1961)
• Mantle and Maris attempt to break Babe Ruth's Home run record (broken by Maris, 1961)
• Marilyn Monroe dies under weird circumstances
• National Guard called out to protect integration
• Johny Carson takes over Tonight Show
• ML King "I have a dream" speech
• Women's Lib movement begins in 1963
• JFK Assasinated
• British Invasion led by the Beatles
• Lyndon Johnson declares war on poverty
• Surgeon General declares smoking bad for health
• Dr Sam Shepherd acquitted of murder , this later became the basis of the Fugitive
• Green Bay beats KC in First Super Bowl
• State of Israel 20 days old, attacked by neighboring countries, Israel crushes them in Six Days
• Race Riots in Detroit, even worse than those in Watts
• Viet Nam War at highest number of US troops
• Lyndon Johnson refuses to run for re-election
• Martin Luther King Jr. killed
• Bobby Kennedy killed
• Protesters attack and disrupt Democratic convention
• Ted Kennedy & Chappaquiddick, kills young girl while DUI gets suspended sentence because he is a Senator
• US lands man on the moon before Russians after both sides had horrible space disasters
• Woodstock Festival
• Hippies
• Manson Family Killings
• 250,000 march against the Viet Nam war in Washington

• Ray Kroc's First McDonalds
• First Artificial Heart used in Surgery
• GI Joe Doll introduced
• Poll Tax Outlawed in Constitution
• St Louis Arch built
• The Miniskirt!
• Miranda Rights Ruling
• First Microwave Oven
• First Issue of Rolling Stone Magazine
• Oil discovered in Alaska
• North Korea captures the Pueblo
• First issue of Penthouse
• ACLU declares Marjuana "harmless" amidst "Reefer Madness"
• Underdog NY Jets win Super Bowl following Joe Namath's prediction
• US Postal Service goes on strike , army delivers mail
• Suburbs and malls appear and gain popularity
• The Ford Mustang introduced - It is chronicalled as the first car which single women bought new
• Paul Hoerning of the SuperBowl Champion Green Bay Packers made as much in salary as a U.S. Government Senior Accountant (GS-12, for those familar with the GS scale).
• The Beatles and Frank Sinatra both topped the music charts at the same time.
• Kids who grew up to read comics in the sixties knew that you could avoid the effects of the atomic bomb ... if you were quick enough to "duck and cover" by hiding under your schoolroom desk.
• Frozen "TV Dinners" were all the rage ... people even had folding snack trays so they could literally eat in front of the (one-to-a-household)TV.

More to come...