Woodstock; Manson Family murders; Apollo 11; The Smothers Brothers; Arlo Guthrie; Diahann Carroll.
The Cuban Missile Crisis; The Seattle World's Fair
The Suez Crisis; Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign; The Ten Commandments.
Invasion of Cambodia; Kent State shootings; Student Strike; Apollo 13; COINTELPRO; release of the films M*A*S*H and Patton; development of the first microprocessors
The War of the Worlds radio broadcast and panic; Adolf Hitler; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine; The Army-McCarthy Hearings; The first hydrogen bomb; Brown v. Board of Education
The home front; The Detroit race riot of 1943.
The Yom Kippur War; The OPEC oil embargo; Women's rights movement; The Riggs-King tennis match
School desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sputnik; American Bandstand; Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon and the US Open; West Side Story
The Berlin Airlift; The 1948 presidential election; LP albums
Patty Hearst; assassination attempts on Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore; Ali/Frazier III; Disco.
The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower; the Red Scare; the McCarran-Walter Act.
The New York World's Fair; The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind; "God Bless America".[
The Tet Offensive; The 1968 Winter Olympics; Lyndon B. Johnson decides not to seek re-election; The 1968 presidential primaries
Levittown, New York; Early television; Soviet nuclear weapons
Gone With The Wind
The Watergate scandal; The continuing Vietnam War; The Munich massacre
The Berlin Wall; Mickey Mantle's and Roger Maris' pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record; the Baby Boom; Newton Minow's Wasteland Speech; the Freedom Rides; folk music
War correspondents; The Liberation of Paris; Women in wartime
Francis Gary Powers; Student protests at Berkeley; Elvis Presley leaves the Army
Soldiers return home from Europe following World War II; the G.I. Bill; sweeping Republican victories in both the House and Senate
John F. Kennedy's Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin; Kennedy vs. George Wallace over desegregating the University of Alabama
The Soviet Union competes at its first Olympics
April 12, 1961; Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth.
The Great Depression; the Flint Sit-Down Strike against General Motors; Swing music
The execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay climb Mount Everest: the Academy Awards are broadcast on television for the first time