Timeline

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## 1962

* **POD-** **August 4th:** Marilyn Monroe is discovered trying to commit suicide by her housemaid Eunice Murray, when she finds a bottle of undescribed pills. Marilyn breaks down and is forced to go to rehab to clean up by her therapist Ralph Greenson, and ex-husband Joe DiMaggio.
* **September 12th, 1962:** President John F. Kennedy gives his "We Choose To Go To The Moon" speech in Rice, Texas.

## 1963

* **March 22nd:** Liverpool based Rock group, The Beatles release their first LP in the UK. Entitled *Please, Please Me*, the record is a smash hit, and sets the world stage for Beatlemania.
* **April 11th:** The television remote control is authorized by the FCC.
* **August 9th:** Patrick Bouvier Kennedy dies two days after being born, much to the family's devastation.
* **August 28th:** Martin Luther King Jr. gives his famous "I Have a Dream!" speech in Washington D.C to 300,000 spectators.
* **October 2nd:** While on a trip to Mexico City, Joe DiMaggio accidentally runs into Lee Harvey Oswald.

* **October 7th:** The United States of America signs the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
* **October 16th:** The Berliner Philharmonic concert hall opens in Berlin, just west of the infamous wall.
* **November 2nd:** Ngo Dinh Diem is killed in a coup de'tat by the South Vietnamese military.
* **November 21st:** President John F. Kennedy tells his advisors to start the War on Poverty program. He then makes his visit to Texas with his wife Jacqueline along with Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie. They will visit five cities, which are San Antonio, Houston, Forth Worth, Dallas, and Austin.
* **November 22nd:** While traveling to the Trade Mart to make a speech in Dallas, Texas on his reelection campaign alongside Jackie, Governor Connally, and Nellie, John F. Kennedy is nearly killed when Lee Harvey Oswald shoots him and Governor Connally with a sniper. Both men are rushed to Parkland Hospital, and JFK survives, though Connally is shot in the heart and later dies as a result. Later that day, lieutenant governor Prescott Smith is sworn in as the 40th Governor of Texas.
* **November 23rd:** Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested by Texas Rangers for attempting to kill John F. Kennedy and succeeding in murdering John Connally.
* **November 24th:** President Kennedy is released from Parkland Hospital and returns to Washington with his wife.

* **November 27th:** President Kennedy makes his first speech after the attempt on his life, calling for Congress to act on Civil Rights and unifying the nation.

* **December 4th:** Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater sends shock waves throughout the nation by opposing the Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King said, "A vote for Goldwater would be a vote for Jim Crow."

## 1964

* **January 24th:** The 24th Amendment is passed, banning poll taxes.
* **February 9th:** The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, with 73 million Americans watching.
* **July 4th:** The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes in Congress 73-27.
* **July 21st:** Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson resigns from his position due to recent controversies.
* **August 2nd:** The U.S.S. Maddox is attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin.
* **September 26th:** Leonid Brezhnev, after attempting to coup the USSR, is killed by the KGB as to make it look like an assassination by poisoning.
* **October 5th:** John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline make their second visit to the USSR, and he and Nikita Khrushchev come up with an idea for a joint mission to the moon.
* **November 3rd:** President Kennedy is reelected by the American people for a second term in the 1964 U.S Presidential Election, winning 27 states and D.C.

## 1965

* **April 12th:** “Colonel” Thomas Andrew Parker is killed in a car accident, freeing Elvis Presley from his dictatorial grasp.
* **August 16th:** Elvis Presley and Ann Margret get married.
* **December:** President John F. Kennedy is named by TIME the "most admired man in America".

## 1966

* **April 17th:** President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline welcome a healthy baby daughter, Rosemary Kathleen Kennedy.
* **July 29th:** Bob Dylan is killed instantly in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York.
* **September 8th:** Star Trek, a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, debuts on NBC.
* **November 8th:** Former actor and former president of the screen actors guild Ronald Reagan wins the California gubernatorial race, defeating incumbent governor Pat Brown.

## 1968

* **April 4th:** Martin Luther King survives an assassination attempt in Memphis, Tennessee.
* **November 5th:** George W. Romney wins the 1968 United States Presidential Election.

## 1969

* **January 20th:** George W. Romney is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States
* **July 20th:** The Americans and Soviets land on the moon in a historic act of cooperation between the two superpowers. 750 million people worldwide would watch Neil Armstrong and Valentina Tereshkova.
* **August 8th:** Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, his girlfriend Barbra Streisand, Jay Sebring, Omar Sharif, and Richard Perry are murdered by Charles Manson's followers in an attack, in order to start a supposed race war called "Helter Skelter". This also makes Trudeau the first Canadian PM to be assassinated.

## 1972

* **March 23rd:** President George Romney is assassinated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Arthur Bremer.
* **November 3rd:** George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan win the 1972 United States Presidential Election.

## 1973

* **March 11th:** Robert Mugabe, a major leader in the ZANU, is captured by a joint group of American and British soldiers, thus weakening the group.

## 1985

* **February 14th:** Former U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy passes away in his home in Hyannis Port. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

## 1994

* **May 19th:** Former First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy dies from Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 64. She is survived by her daughters Caroline and Rosemary, sons John Jr. and Robert, her sister Lee, and the rest of the Kennedy family. She is buried on May 23rd next to her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.