1960 to 1969

What happened in history...

1960 - John F Kennedy elected president
1961 - Vietnam War officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in Saigon
1962 - John Glenn orbits the Earth, becoming the first American to do so
1963 - President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Lyndon Johnson becomes President. The man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed as he is led to jail by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The assassination marks the first 24-hour coverage of a major news event by the major networks
1964 - The Beatles arrive in the U.S., and subsequent apprearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, mark the start of the Bristish Invation
1965 - President Lyndon B Johnson escalates the United States military involvement in the Vietnam War
1966 - The Department of Transportation created
1967 - Jack Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer), on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, where Oswald had died and where President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr and presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy assassinated two months apart
1969 - Richard Nixon is inaugurated as President
1969 - Sesame Street premieres on National Educational Television
1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon