1960's and 70's drama research

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1960

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ReleasedBrazil's Capital Moves to Brand New CityFirst Televised Presidential DebatesLasers InventedLunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NCMost Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits ChileSharpeville Massacre in South AfricaThe Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDAWalsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place

on Earth1961

Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in HolocaustBay of Pigs InvasionBerlin Wall BuiltFreedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate BusesJFK Gives "Man on the Moon" SpeechPeace Corps FoundedSoviets Launch First Man in SpaceStalin's Body Removed From Lenin's MausoleumThe Antarctic Treaty Goes Into ForceTsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded1962

Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup CanCuban Missile CrisisFamous Escape From AlcatrazFirst James Bond MovieFirst Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin WallFirst Wal-Mart OpensJames Meredith Admitted Into the Segregated University of

MississippiJohnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight ShowMarilyn Monroe Found DeadRachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring1963

16th Street Baptist Church BombingBetty Friedan Publishes The Feminine MystiqueBuddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in ProtestFirst Dr. Who Episode AirsFirst Woman in SpaceGreat Train Robbery in England"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.JFK AssassinatedMarch on WashingtonMartin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" SpeechMedgar Evers Is Murdered1964
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Beatles Become Popular in U.S.Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight

ChampionCivil Rights Act Passes in U.S.Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action FigureItaly Asks for Help to Stabilize the Leaning Tower of PisaJapan's First Bullet Train Line OpensNelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in PrisonWarren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued1965

British Sea Gem Oil Rig CollapsesLos Angeles RiotsMalcolm X AssassinatedMiniskirt First AppearsNicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in RomaniaNew York City Great BlackoutThe Rolling Stones Mega Hit Song, (I Cant Get No) SatisfactionU.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam1966

Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau PrisonBlack Panther Party EstablishedFirst Kwanzaa CelebratedMao Zedong Launches the Cultural RevolutionMass Draft Protests in U.S.National Organization for Women (NOW) FoundedStar TrekT.V. Series AirsTwo Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found1967

Australian Prime Minister DisappearsChe Guevara KilledFirst Heart TransplantFirst Super BowlSix-Day War in the Middle EastStalin's Daughter DefectsThree U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated LaunchThurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S.Supreme Court Justice1968

Japan's 300 Million Yen RobberyMartin Luther King Jr. AssassinatedMy Lai MassacreNerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 SheepPrague SpringRobert F. Kennedy AssassinatedSpy Ship USS Pueblo CapturedTet OffensiveZodiac Killer Strikes
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1969

ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, CreatedManson Family MurdersNeil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the MoonRock-and-Roll Concert at WoodstockSenator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an AccidentSesame StreetFirst AirsYasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO

1970

Aswan High Dam CompletedBeatles Break UpComputer Floppy Disks IntroducedPalestinian Group Hijacks Five PlanesKent State Shootings1971London Bridge Brought to the U.S.United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for CurrencyVCRs Introduced1972

M*A*S*H T.V. Show PremiersMark Spitz Wins Seven Gold MedalsPocket Calculators IntroducedTerrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in MunichWatergate Scandal Begins1973Roe vs Wade Legalizes Abortion in the U.S.Paul Getty KidnappedSears Tower BuiltU.S. Pulls Out of VietnamU.S. Vice President Resigns1974

Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, DeposedMikhail Baryshnikov DefectsPatty Hearst KidnappedTerracotta Army Discovered in ChinaU.S. President Nixon Resigns1975

Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win WimbledonCambodian Genocide BeginsCivil War in LebanonMicrosoft FoundedPol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia1976

First Ebola Virus Outbreaks Strike Sudan and ZaireNadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect TensNorth and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of
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VietnamTangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,0001977

Elvis Found DeadMiniseries Roots AirsSouth African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to DeathStar Wars Movie Released1978

First Test-Tube Baby BornJohn Paul II Becomes PopeJonestown Massacre1979

Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of IranIran Takes American Hostages in TehranMargaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great BritainMother Teresa Awarded the Nobel Peace PrizeNuclear Accident at Three Mile IslandSony Introduces the Walkman
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