1960-1970's

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Birth Control Pill approved by FDA

1960

First Televised Presidential debates

1960

lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Green Boro, NC

1960

Bay of Pigs Invasion

1961

Berlin Wall Built

1961

Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Busses

1961

Peace Corps Funded

1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

First Doctor Who Speach Airs

1963

First Woman in Space

1963

JFK Assassinated

1963

MLK makes his "I Hava a Dream" Speach

1963

Stone Wall Riots

1969