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The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later, the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter. February 9 Adolph Coors III , the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company , is kidnapped in the United States, and his captors demand a ransom of $500,000.
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties; Civil rights movement; Civil rights movements; Committee on Appeal for Human Rights; List of covers of Time magazine (1960s) Cuban Missile Crisis; Culinary Revolution
The tragic event marked a time of rising tensions in Pacific Northwest labor history. 1917 (United States) In "Hitchman Coal and Coke vs. Mitchell", U.S. Supreme Court upholds the legality of yellow-dog contracts. [30] 1917 (United States) Green Corn Rebellion occurred. [30]
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
Meanwhile, Republicans were generally united on a hawkish and intense American nationalism, strong opposition to Communism, support for promoting democracy and human rights, and strong support for Israel. [3] Memories of the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s shaped the political landscape for the next half-century.
- 1960: The first televised debate pitted Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy against Republican Vice President Richard Nixon, who was recovering from a hospital visit and had a 5 o'clock shadow ...
November 15: Moratorium redux: over 500,000 march in Washington, D.C. It is the largest anti-war demonstration in American history. [536] November 20: Native American protesters begin the Occupation of Alcatraz, which continues for 19 months. [537] December: Total U.S. casualties (dead and seriously wounded) in Vietnam total some 100,000.