by Danielle and Melissa

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• During his January 14 Inaugural Address Alabama Governor George Wallace vows that he would uphold "segregation now . . .segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever."
• "Martin Luther King, Jr., went to jail for leading demonstrations in Birmingham on April 12.
• Pope John XXIII dies June 3 at age 81 after a 5-year papacy. 
• Governor George Wallace of Alabama made his "stand in the schoolhouse door" President Kennedy federalized Alabama National Guard on June 11. This forced Governor Wallace to let two black students enroll at the University of Alabama.
• Medgar Evers, an American civil rights worker in Mississippi, was killed in the doorway of his home on June 12 by a sniper.
• On June 16 Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to orbit the earth.
• The Supreme Court rules that prayer in public schools was unconstitutional on June 17.
• "Ich bin ein Berliner" These were the words of John F. Kennedy at a speech in West Berlin on June 26.
• A British train is robbed on August 8 of $7 million. A team of robbers stops a train near London.
• "I have a dream," says Martin Luther King, Jr., in a ceremony August 28 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."
• On October 6 the Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series by defeating the New York Yankees 4 games to 0. 
• Buses replace trolley cars in Baltimore, where electric trolleys were first introduced just 88 years and 84 days earlier. trolleys on November 4.
• AT&T introduces transistorized electronic touch-tone telephones on November 18 in Pennsylvania.
• The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22 shocks the nation. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president aboard Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas, Texas.
• Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald (accused assassin of John F. Kennedy), to death November 24 in the basement of the Dallas city jail as police are moving him to safer quarters, and millions watch the shooting on television.
• New Hampshire conducts the first state lottery - a sweepstakes to raise money for state education.
• A nuclear reactor installed by Jersey Central Power and Light is the first commercial reactor and the first nuclear power plant large enough to compete with coal and oil fuel.
• The Beatles have their first big success with a recording of "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Their long hair and music is very popular.
• Some popular songs are "Flymetothemoon" by New York songwriter Bart Howard, "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; "In Dreams," "Falling," and "Blue Bayou" by Roy Orbison.
• New York renames the Idlewild Airport to John F. Kennedy Airport.
• Weight Watchers is founded by Queens, N.Y.
• The Coca Cola Company introduces Tab.
• A vaccine against measles was developed.
• Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique.
• The post office introduced the Zip Codes.

36th Annual Academy Awards:
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier in Lilies of the Field
Best Actress: Patricia Neal in Hud
Best Picture: Tom Jones

Emmy Awards:
Best Drama: The Defenders  
Best Comedy: The Dick Van Dyke Show

6th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: Henry Mancini Days of Wine And Roses
Album of the Year: Barbara Streisand The Barbara Streisand Album
Song of the Year: Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer Days Of Wine And Roses
Best New Artist: Ward Swingle, Swingle Singers

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