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Question: What major events happened in america during the years 1961-1963!?
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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