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| 1961: | Initiation of the construction of the Berlin Wall |
| 1962: | Nelson Mandela Arrested
Mariner II Becomes First Interplanetary Spacecraft |
| 1963: | Martin Luther King Jr. gives the now famous "I Have A Dream" speech |
| 1964: | Congress approves the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" (initiating the Vietnam
"war")
Sandage discovers the first quasar Gell-Mann nd Zweig independantly introduce 3-quark model of elementary particles |
| 1965: | Watts riots in Los Angeles, CA
Penzias & Wilson discover the cosmic microwave background radiation |
| 1966: | Last public performance of the Beatles |
| 1967: | Prototype for Supersonic Airliner Unveiled: The Concorde
Bell & Hewish discover the first pulsar Wieberg and Salam independantly propose a unified theory linking weak and electromagnetic interactions
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| 1969: | Woodstock Music Festival |
| 1970: | Chicano Moratorium protesting against the Vietnam War |