● 1965 (Graduation year)
- Vietnam War escalation begins, 150,000 US troops deployed.
- US black nationalist leader, Malcolm X is assassinated.
● 1964 (Spring of Junior/Fall of Senior years)
● 1963 (Spring of Sophomore/Fall of Junior years)
| ● 1962 (Spring of Freshman/Fall of Sophomore years)
- Cuban Missile Crisis - world stands on brink nuclear war. Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago independent from UK .
- Adolf Eichmann (captured by Mossad agents in 1960) is sentenced to death and hanged in Israel for his part in the Holocaust during WW!!
- Telstar world's first active communications satellite, is launched.
- Johnny Carson debuts as host of The Tonight Show.
● 1961 (Fall of Freshman year)
- NY Yankees star Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player after signing a $75,000 contract and his teammate Roger Maris breaks (hits 61) Babe Ruth’s single season home run record of 60 which stood since 1927.
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