Significant facts of 1964-1969?

Question

My class and I are making a "time caplse" about items in 1964-1969. We need as many items as possible and please no links just copy from links thank you.

Answer 1

Below are some events that happened in the various years. Hope that it will be helpful.

1964:
- Anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by the South African government.

- Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! made its debut on television.

- The Good Friday Earthquake and subsequent tsunamis devastated Anchorage, Alaska.

- In a landmark report, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Luther Terry issued the warning that "smoking may be hazardous for one's health".


1965:
- Separation of Singapore from Malaysia.

- Mariner 4 flew past Mars, collecting the first close-up pictures of another planet.

- Fifty-one tornadoes struck six states in Midwestern United States during the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak.

- Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov donned a spacesuit and ventured outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, becoming the first person to walk in space.

- American Civil Rights Movement: Civil rights demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were brutally attacked by police on Bloody Sunday.

- The Ranger 8 spacecraft successfully transmitted 7,137 photographs of the moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing in Mare Tranquillitatis.


1966:
- Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan became emir and ruler of Abu Dhabi.

- Malawi became a republic, with Hastings Banda as the first President.

- One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.

- Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Horatio Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb.

- The Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 became the first space probe to land on the Moon and transmit pictures from the lunar surface to Earth.

- Batman the television series, starring Adam West, was first broadcast on ABC.


1967:
- The 12th Street Riot began in the predominantly black inner-city area of Detroit, Michigan, United States.

- The world's first automatic teller machine was installed in the London Borough of Enfield.

- The Six-Day War began with an Israeli Air Force attack on Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

- The Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed in Siberia, killing cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.

- The Apollo 1 spacecraft was destroyed by fire at the Kennedy Space Center, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

- The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.

- General Gnassingbé Eyadéma seized power in Togo after a coup d'état, ruling as head of state until his death in February 2005.


1968:
- NASA launched Apollo 7, the first manned mission of the Apollo program.

- At least 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia, abruptly ending a period of political liberalization known as "Prague Spring".

- Sirhan Sirhan mortally shot Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles.

- Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces launched the T?t Offensive on Vietnamese New Year's Day.

- USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.


1969:
- Siad Barre became President after a military coup in Somalia.

- The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast on BBC1.

- The Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York began.

- The Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (pictured) became the first men to walk on the moon.

- The Stonewall riots began in New York City, starting the modern gay rights movement.

- Golda Meir of the Labour Party became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.

- British rock band Led Zeppelin released their first record album, also called Led Zeppelin.

Answer 2

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, The War and Protest of such in Viet Nam you should do some research it is important to know your history so you understand why the world is the way it is. Good luck here are some facts.
1964-There Civil Rights workers were murdered in Mississippi Andrew Goodman, Michael Shwernen and James Chaney two were black and one was white.
Civil Rights Movement was passed on June 14, 1964
1964- President Johnson Signed Civil Right Act
1965- Malcolm X was assassinated
August 1965-The Voting Rights Act was signed
March 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday MLK march on Selma Alabama
March 25,1965 March on Montgomery Alabama
March 25,1965 Viola Liuzzo a volunteer civil rights worker from Detroit was gunned down while driving a fellow volunteer home to Selma Alabama
March 15, 1965 Voting Rights Act giving black folks the right to vote was signed into law
1965-1967 Urban Unrest in Los Angeles, (Watts) Rioting
April 4,1968 Martin L. King Jr was assassinated
James Earl Ray was arrested, charged and convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. Good luck and God bless

Answer 3

I wrote a ditty in 1968 which has kept some little news stories anchored to that year for me:

"A year of indisputable failure
A budget that should have been earlier
The post in two tiers
God's time in arrears
And the Ashes remained in Australia!"

To clarify. In 1966 Harold Wilson became the first Labour Prime Minister of Britain to be re-elected. His government introduced a "Prices and Incomes Policy", an innovative measure to guide the economy by controls on prices and incomes. It didn't work well, and in November 1967 he still had to devalue the pound (from US$2.80 to $2.40). In 1968, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Roy Jenkins (later to be leader of the breakaway SDP party) imposed austerity measures that did work, but cost Labour the next election. (That was the "budget that should have been earlier".) The two tier post (first and second class) is still with us. "God's time in arrears" refers to the experiment with putting the country on GMT+1 (same time zone as France) all the year round. The Scots and everyone far from London protested vigorously and in1971 they ended that. "The Ashes" is the #1 contest in world (Test) cricket, between England and Australia, and the series in England in 1968 ended 1-1. In 1969, England beat West Indies (in the series in England), a feat not to be repeated until the 21st century. The 1964 Ashes series against Australia also ended 1-1, as did the 1965/6 series in Australia. In 1965, England drew with South Africa, the last series to be played against them until 1992 because other countries insisted on our not playing them because of apartheid.

In 1966 England won the football World Cup, winning the final against West Germany at Wembley after extra time.

In 1968, Labour lost control of all but 16 councils in the local elections. Hackney became Tory controlled, something that has of course never happened before or since.

Answer 4

Does this project include other parts of existence? The World'sFair was in NYC in 1965; Andy Warhol introduced PopArt to the world; Bob Dylan and the Beatles ruled; Woodstock happened.

Answer 5

In 1964, several bands in the New York underground music scene began to play what they called psychedelic rock.

Answer 6

Here are a few.

1. Vietnam war Gulf of Ton kin resolution and incident.
2. Moon landing.
3. All moon shots in the Apollo program.
4.Nixon's dirty tricks.

There are a few.

Answer 7

The assassination of Robert Kennedy, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the moon landing, the Beatles (the larger chunk of their US career), The 1968 election of Richard Nixon. The 1968 Democratic Convention, the greater part of the Vietnam War, Hogans Heroes, Laugh-In, the illegalization of LSD, hippies, yippies, transistor radios, mini-skirts, and Hair

Answer 8

The Beatles became popular during that time period. Bell bottoms were popular. Hippies were real big!

Answer 9

What an incredible time period:
January 1964-24th Amendment to US Constitution (bans Poll Taxes)
February 1964- The Beatles arrive in America
June 1964- Landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed (The "Mississippi Burning" murders were also this same summer)
August 1964- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed, giving the President the right to send troops to foreign countries without a declaration of war
November 1964-LBJ re-elected president
December 1964- Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 800 students arrested at UC Berkeley after demonstration and "sit-in"
December 1964- Martin Luther King Jr wins Nobel Peace Prize

February 1965- Malcolm X assassinated.
March 1965- State troopers attack Civil Rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama and later that same month in Montgomery, Alabama. Both events bring violent racism to the nightly news. At the end of the month MLK leads 25,000 marchers from Selma to Montgomery to make the point that things have to change.
March 1965- Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonev becomes the first person to walk in space.
July 1965- Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, in August he releases the "Highway 61" album featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone"

March 1966- the Texas Western college basketball team, with 5 African American starters, defeats the all white Kentucky basketball team for the national championship.
May 1966- The Beach Boys release "Pet Sounds"
June 1966- Supreme Court rules in Miranda case- arresting police must read suspects their rights
July & August 1966- infamous mass murderers do their thing, (July- Richard Speck in kills eight nurses in Chicago, in August Charles Whitman "climbs the clock tower" at the University of Texas, killing 13)
August 1966- Earthquakes in Turkey kill tens of thousands of people
August 1966- Beatles release "Revolver" and play their last concert, Candlestick Park, SF

January 1967- The first "Super Bowl" played. (it was officially called the "AFL-NFL World Championship" until the 3rd one in 1969). The Packers beat the Chiefs.
January 1967- 3 astronauts (Grissom, Chaffee, and White) killed on the launch pad
February 1967- American Basketball Association formed. They become famous for Dr. J and red white and blue basketballs
February 1967- 25th Amendment ratified (presidential succession)
April 1967- The Six Day War (Israel fights Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq)
April 1967- Boxer Muhammed Ali refuses military service. U.S. won't recognize conscientious objector status for Nation of Islam
May 1967- Elvis and Priscilla Presley married
May 1967- Jimi Hendrix's first album released, (Are You Experienced)
June 1967- Beatles release Sgt. Pepper
June 1967- Monterey Pop Festival (blueprint for Woodstock and introduction of Hendrix to U.S.)
June, July, August 1967- Race riots throughout U.S, notable Detroit Michigan in which 1,400 buildings were burned
August 1967- Thurgood Marshall becomes first African-American Supreme Court Justice
October 1967- Che Guevara captured and executed in Bolivia
December 1967- Nicolae Ceasescu becomes the leader of Romania

January 1968-Alexander Dubcek takes over in Czechoslovakia
February 1968- Boeing introduces the 747
February 1968- North Vietnamese launch TET offensive two months after US leaders announce that the war is mostly over. Average US citizens start to doubt US Leadership
March 1968- Bobby Kennedy enters Presidential race
March 1968- LBJ announces he will not seek another term as president
April 1968- Marting Luther King assassinated in Memphis
April 1968- Hippies make it to Broadway; Hair opens
June 1968- Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles after winning California primary
August 1968- Protesters clash with police in the streets at the Democratic National Convention
November 1968- Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the Presidential election

January 1969- Joe Namath's Jets beat the Colts in the Super Bowl, giving the AFL credibility.
January 1969- Beatles play last public performance on the roof of the Apple building. It is broken up by police.
March 1969- John marries Yoko
April 1969 Harvard Administration building taken over by students in demonstration
June 1969- Stonewall riots begin gay rights movement
July 1969- Film Easy Rider brings counter culture to big screen (in a year when Oliver! won best picture)
July 1969- US astronauts land on the moon
August 1969- Woodstock
September 1969- Monty Python debuts on BBC
October 1969- Wal-mart incorporates.
November 1969- ARPANET begins service, this will evolve into the internet

Hope that helps!

Answer 10

world had a great catastrophee : world did not see me in those years ,,,, ( i was born in 86)