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New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s. 1964 – Economic Opportunity Act 1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964 , outlawing major forms of legalized discrimination against blacks and women, and ended legalized racial segregation in the United States
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 events in the United States by month ... 1960 in American law (4 C, 2 P) M. ... Timeline of the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency;
This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation. Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 119 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.
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 ...
June 8, 1960 September 15 Markham: CBS May 2, 1959 September 19 New Comedy Showcase: CBS August 1, 1960 September 19 The Texan: CBS September 29, 1958 September 22 Law of the Plainsman: NBC October 1, 1959 September 22 The Gale Storm Show: ABC September 29, 1956 September 23 The Man from Blackhawk: ABC: October 9, 1959 September 24 Howdy Doody: NBC
The swinging 1960s could help to unpack a key puzzle of our current era: America's funky economic mood. ... Why the 1960s can help us understand our confusing economic mood ... Man declines free ...
The history of the United States from 1964 to 1980 includes the climax and end of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.