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Há 5 dias · Here, we focus on transformative events and influential figures of the 1960s that reshaped societies. Our selection underscores pivotal moments that provide insight into the era's global influence and the foundation it laid for future generations.
8 de mai. de 2024 · Freedom Rides, in U.S. history, a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961. Infographic showing the routes and timeline of the Freedom Rides of 1961. In 1946 the U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in interstate bus travel.
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Há 6 dias · 1961 – President John F. Kennedy promised some more aggressive confrontation with the Soviet Union; he also established the Peace Corps.
Há 3 dias · president of United States. Also known as: JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Written by. William Manchester was an American historian who published three popular volumes about President John F. Kennedy: Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy in Profile (1961), The Death of a... Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- John F. Kennedy was reared in a large Roman Catholic family of Irish descent that demanded intense physical and intellectual competition among its...
- John F. Kennedy’s father was Joseph P. Kennedy, who acquired a multimillion-dollar fortune in banking, bootlegging, shipbuilding, motion pictures,...
- John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, and he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. While riding...
- John F. Kennedy served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, represented the Massachusetts 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Represe...
- John F. Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic president of the United States, sparked the idealism of “a new generation of Americans” with his charm an...
- Whether the U.S. should maintain its embargo enforced by John F. Kennedy against Cuba is hotly debated. Some say Cuba has not met the conditions re...
5 de mai. de 2024 · Trajectory of Alan Shepard’s flight aboard Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961. Image via NASA. Competing against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. NASA launched Alan Shepard into space against a...
Há 1 dia · The CIA recruited 1,500 men, mostly Cuban expatriates to invade the island between April 17, 1961 and April 19, 1961. Of these 1,500 men, 118 were reportedly killed and over 1,200 captured by the Cubans. This was not a highlight of John Kennedy's term as President of the United States.
Há 1 dia · On 15 April 1961, at about 06:00, Cuban local time, eight B-26B Invader bombers in three groups simultaneously attacked three Cuban airfields at San Antonio de los Baños and at Ciudad Libertad (formerly named Campo Columbia), both near Havana, plus the Antonio Maceo International Airport at Santiago de Cuba.
