The presentation of the Declaration of Independence. After the French and Indian War, the colonists began to think that they were not getting their "rights as freeborn Englishman".
Your banner or text ad can fill the space above. Click here to Sponsor the page and how to reserve your ad. Timeline February 1, - Four black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter, protesting their denial of service.
This action caused a national campaign, waged by seventy-thousand students, both white and black, over the next eight months, in sit-ins across the nation for Civil Rights. April 1, - Tiros I, the first weather satellite, is launched by the United States. Twelve days later, the navigation satellite, Transat 1-b is launched.
April 1, - The census includes a United States population of ,, an For the first time, two states, New York and California have over fifteen million people within their borders. The geographic center of the United States is located six and one half miles northwest of Centralia, Illinois.
On August 19, Powers is sentenced by the Soviet Union to ten years in prison for espionage. On February 10,he would be exchanged for a captured Soviet spy in Berlin. July 4, - The fifty star flag of the United States is debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reflecting the admission of Hawaii into the union in More November 8, - The presidential race to succeed two term president Dwight D.
Eisenhower is won by Senator John F. Kennedy was a narrow victor in the popular vote, by slightly more thanvotes, but won a more substantial victory in the Electoral College tally, to The campaign for president had seen the first televised debate on September Government to sever diplomatic and consular relations with the Cuban government.
February 15, - The entire United States figure skating team is killed in a plane crash near Brussels, Belgium on their journey to the World Championships. Seventy-three people are killed. April 17, - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces in an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro.
May 5, - The first U. Twenty days later, President Kennedy announces his intention to place a man on the moon by the end of the decade. More August 13, - The construction of the Berlin Wall begins by the Soviet bloc, segregating the German city, previously held in four sectors by Allied forces, including the United States.
The wall would last for twenty-eight years. Virgin Islands when President John F. The reef includes an underwater nature trail and one of the best marine gardens in the Caribbean Sea.
February 20, - Lt. Colonel John Glenn becomes the first U. He would circle the earth three times before returning to earth, remaining aloft for four hours and fifty-five minutes.
This flight equalized the space race with the Soviet Union, whose Vostok I flight on April 12, with Yuri Gagarin had become the first manned spaceflight into orbit one year earlier. More October 1, - Three thousand troops quell riots, allowing James Meredith to enter the University of Mississippi as the first black student under guard by Federal marshals.
October 14, - The Cuban Missile Crises begins. Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade of military equipment to the island. An agreement is eventually reached with Soviet Premier Khrushchev on the removal of the missiles, ending the potential conflict after thirty-eight days, in what many think was the closest the Cold War came to breaking into armed conflict.
Kennedy, and the federal penitentiary is closed. June 11, - A patent for the first manned space capsule, the Mercury, is issued to Maxime A. Hammack, and Caldwell C. Schempp that laws requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools is unconstitutional.
The vote was 8 to 1.Mark Barringer. Along with the Civil Rights campaigns of the s, one of the most divisive forces in twentieth-century U.S. initiativeblog.com antiwar movement actually consisted of a number of independent interests, often only vaguely allied and contesting each other on many issues, united only in opposition to the Vietnam War.
A People's History of the United States is a non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard initiativeblog.com the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from what he considered to be the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of .
History of the United States: Categorys in the United States Media in category "United States in the s" The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total. Astronaut Groups 1 and 2 - Sjpg 5, × 2,; MB. A History of Mental Institutions in the United States This timeline was created by a capstone reporting class at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, in conjunction with Kaiser Health News and Capital News Service, for a project on the deinstitutionalization of mental patients.
Two United States Air Force officers survive and are imprisoned in Moscow's dreaded Lubyanka prison. July 4 – Following the admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S.
state the previous year, the star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
July 11 – Harper Lee releases her critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird. 1 History of Health Spending in the United States, Aaron C.
Catlin and Cathy A. Cowan November 19, Abstract: U.S. health care expenditures have steadily increased as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).