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Class Years:
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1962 | 1963 |
1964 | 1965 |
1966 | 1967 |
1968 | 1969 Class Years: 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 Class Years: 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 Class Years: 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | Others (pre 1960 and post 1992) |
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1960's Timeline
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1957 |
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10/4/1957 Russian Sputnik 1 launched. |
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1958 |
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1/31/1958 U. S. Explorer 1 launched. |
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1959 |
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1/3/1959 Alaska is admitted to the Union. |
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8/21/1959 Hawaii is admitted to the Union. |
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1960 |
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5/1/1960 U2 plane shot down. |
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1960's Kennedy - Nixon debates. |
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| Fall 1960 New Lexington High School opens. |
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11/8/1960 Kennedy wins election. |
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1961 |
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4/12/1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth. |
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| 4/17/1961 Bay of Pigs. |
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5/5/1961 (Friday) Alan B. Shepard, Jr., first American in space - "Freedom 7" - 9:34 am. |
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8/13/1961 The Berlin Wall is started. It won't come down until 11/9/1989. |
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10/1/1961 Roger Maris hits 61st homer. |
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| 12/11/1961 First U.S. troops (advisors) arrive in Vietnam. |
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1962 |
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2/20/1962 (Tuesday) John H. Glenn, Jr., orbits the earth - "Friendship 7" - 9:47 am. |
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10/2/1962 Johnny Carson replaces Jack Parr on the Tonight Show. |
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10/22/1962 - 10/27/1962 Cuban missile crisis. |
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1963 |
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| 6/17/1963 Prayer in public schools declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court. |
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| 6/26/1963 Kennedy visits Berlin. |
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8/28/1963 Civil Rights march on Washington. "I have a dream" |
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11/22/1963 (Friday) Kennedy assassinated. |
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11/24/1963 Jack Ruby assassinates Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. |
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1964 |
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7/2/1964 Civil Rights Act signed into law. |
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| 8/7/1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. |
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11/3/1964 Johnson wins reelection. |
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1965 |
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| 3/8/1965 Combat troops arrive in Vietnam. |
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6/3/1965 Edward H. White, Jr. - Gemini 4 - first U.S. spacewalk. |
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1966 |
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| 6/13/1966 Supreme Court rules on Miranda rights. |
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7/1/1966 Medicare enrollments begin. Commissioner Bob Ball outlines SSA's plans for implementation. |
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10/26/1966 U. S. aircraft carrier Oriskany caught fire in Gulf on Tonkin and 43 died. |
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1967 |
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| 1/15/1967 First Super Bowl - Green Bay beat Kansas City. |
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1/27/1967 Apollo fire - Roger B. Chaffee, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Edward H. White, Jr. |
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| 6/5/1967 - 6/10/1967 6 day war - Israel. |
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1968 |
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| 1/31/1968 Tet Offensive. |
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4/4/1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated. |
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| 6/5/1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated. |
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| 8/20/1968 Russia invades Czechoslovakia. |
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8/28/1968 Democratic National Convention - Chicago, Illinois. |
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11/5/1968 Nixon wins election. |
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1969 |
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7/18/1969 Senator Edward Kennedy - Mary Jo Kopechne - Chappaquiddick Island. |
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7/20/1969 U.S. lands Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Armstrong aboard the "Eagle" on the moon - 4:18 pm EDT. Michael Collins orbits above. At 10:56 pm the "Giant Leap" takes place. |
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8/15/1969 - 8/17/1969 Woodstock. |
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