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Nuclear missles being placed in Cuba was a MAJOR event. Known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Another was the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion.
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President John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
- Soviets erect the Berlin Wall (1961)
- Freedom Riders challenge segregation on interstate buses (1961)
- American backed Cuban exiles fail in an attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (1961)
- Soviet cosmonaut, Uri Gagarin, orbits the earth for the first time by a human (1961)
- Mao's Great Leap Forward ends in China (1961)
- US establishes a military council in South Vietnam (1962)
- USSR sends arms to Cuba, setting off the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' (1962)
- Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring (1962)
- March on Washington for civil rights (1963)
- JFK is assassinated in Dallas Texas; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President (1963)
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