Jordan and Nicolas (Part 2)
Events
The Assassination of JFK
November 22, 1963-The Killer was Lee Harvey Oswald
- He was shot in the chest, then in the head
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
July 2, 1964-Prohibits unequal treatment of different races, sexs, etc.
My Lai Massacre
March 16, 1968-Mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese citizens
-More than 500 killed
Woodstock
Aug 15, 1969 - Aug 18, 1969- First major music festival
- Major part of the Anti-War Movement
Watergate
June 17, 1972- A political scandal that happened with Richard Nixon
- It ended in Nixon's resignation
Nixon Resigns
August 9, 1974-Resigned instead of being impeached
-Never actually was impeached
Internet
January 1, 1983- ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983 -World Wide Web was created later in the 1990s, which popularized the internet
Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes
January 28, 1986-Broke apart 73 seconds into launch
-killed 7 people, including a teacher
Fall of Berlin Wall
November 1991- Stopped because of the Cold War
- More than 2 million people from east Berlin visited West Berlin, and had a huge celebration
Oklahoma City Bombing
April 19, 1995-Truck bombing by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols
- 680+ were injured or killed
