The first Freedom Ride left Washington DC on May 4th: freedom riders challenged the southern states' non-enforcement of the Supreme Court's ruling that segregation on buses was unconstitutional. On April 12, the Soviets launched the Vostok 1, carrying Yuri Gargarin as the first man into space.īetween April 17–19, the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba occurred when about 1,400 Cuban exiles failed to wrest control from Fidel Castro. He was found guilty on 15 counts on December 12 and executed the following June.
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Between April 11 and August 14, Adolf Eichmann went on trial for his role in the Holocaust, charged under the 1950 Nazi and Nazi Collaborators Punishment law. On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy founded the Peace Corps, a federal agency designed to give Americans an opportunity to serve their country and the world through volunteer community-based projects. Workers building the Berlin Wall, a tangible symbol of the Cold War.
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On September 8, Alfred Hitchcock's landmark movie "Psycho" opened in the theaters to mixed reviews, although it is today considered among Hitchcock's best. The most powerful earthquake ever reported devastated Chile on May 22, with an estimated 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale. The first working laser, invented by several physicists over decades of research, was built by Theodore Maiman of the Hughes Research Laboratory in California on May 16th. Searle was approved for that use by the FDA. On May 9, the first commercial birth control pill, Enovid, produced by G.D. On April 21, the newly built city of Brasília was founded and Brazil moved its capital there from Rio de Janeiro. Sixty-nine people lost their lives, and 180 sustained injuries. The Sharpeville massacre in South Africa occurred on March 21, when a crowd of about 7,000 protesters went to the police station. On February 1, the civil rights era began with a lunch counter sit-in at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. 26, 1960, and was viewed by about 40% of the U.S. Nixon. The first of four debates took place on Sept.
The decade opened with a presidential election that included the first televised debates between the two candidates: John F.
Kennedy, the 35th president, during a televised debate. Presidential candidates Richard Nixon (left), later the 37th president of the United States, and John F.
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