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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1961-(January) President John F Kennedy innagurated March 1961 - President Kennedy forms the Peace Corps 1961 (April) Bay of Pigs fiasco May 4, 1961- Freedom Riders: 13 black and white students with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leave Washington DC on 2 buses, to test integration laws in bus stations throughout the deep South!. july 2- Ernest Hemmingway committs suicide August 1961- Six flags over Texas theme park opens August 1961- Berlin Wall built December 1961- Vietnam War begins April 1962- First MLB game played in Dodger stadium July 1962- First Wal-Mart opens in Arkansas August 1962- Marylin Monroe found dead October 1962- First black student registers at University of Mississippi, has to be escorted by Federal Marshals October 1962-Cuban Missle Crisis November 1962- Dulles INternational Airport opens in DC January 14, 1963 - George C!. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama!. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!" March 5, 1963 - Country Star Patsy Cline dies in plane crash August 28, 1963- Martin Luther King, Jr!. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom!. Nov 22, 1963 President John F Kennedy assassinated Dec, Beatlemania begins in USWww@QuestionHome@Com |