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Events from the year 1960 in ... President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law. ... List of American films of 1960; Timeline of United ...
1947 – Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District created; first air pollution agency in the US. 1948 – Federal Water Pollution Control Act; 1955 – National Air Pollution Control Act; 1959 – California Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board created to test automobile emissions and set standards.
The campaign included the first televised United States presidential debate. 1960 – 1960 United States presidential election: John F. Kennedy elected president, Lyndon B. Johnson elected vice president; 1961 – US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba; 1961 – Eisenhower gives celebrated "military–industrial complex" farewell address
1960 – Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court affirmed a defendant's right to have a competency evaluation before proceeding to trial. [47] This case set the current standard for adjudicative competence in the United States.
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.
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 ...
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This timeline of modern American conservatism lists important events, developments and occurrences that have affected conservatism in the United States. With the decline of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party after 1960, the movement is most closely associated with the Republican Party (GOP).