Hello this is Mijle2003 I have a project due on November 20, 2009, and I have an idea to add some jazz to my presentation. My presenetation requires me to talk about the year 1960 & 1962, instead of just showing power point slieds and and turning in a 5 pg paper sounding like that guy in the dry eyes commercial I would like to do both power point persentation and game vids. The project entail everything from fashoin to poltics to history changing evenets, for instance Kenndy was elected presedent, the cuban missile crisis ,Entertainment , the idea I have is playing a game that in the time frame. Right now I have THE BEATLES, Call of duty 4 as a base these will repersent a part in history, in addtion does any one know how to incorparate vids in a powerpoint persentation, I have a PC and ps3 I looking for idea from those ports, that represeted events in 1960 and 1962 Im open to all ideas

And no 1961?

If you're looking for more events, check out the timelines available at wikipedia. 1960, 1961, 1962

If you want to give your presentation a global perspective, you could include the revolution in Algeria which concluded with independence in 1962.

1960 saw the Sharpeville massacre and Sit-ins in North Carolina. France joins the nuclear club. The Soviets shot down the U2. The first birth control pill was approved. Mossad captured Eichmann. Several former French colonies in Africa declare their independence. Cassius Clay wins the Olympic gold medal in boxing. OPEC was formed. Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a United Nations. Albert Camus dies. Zora Neale Hurston dies. John D. Rockefeller Jr. dies. Clark Gable dies.

1961 saw the end of US-Cuban relations. Eisenhower warns against the military industrial complex. Eichmann's trial begins. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space. Castro announces the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Judy Garland stages a comeback. The Freedom Riders begin their protests. West Side Story is released as a film. The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen bomb. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. The Vietnam War officially begins. Erwin Schrödinger dies. Dashiell Hammett dies. Gary Cooper dies. Ernest Hemingway dies. Ty Cobb dies. Chico Marx dies.

1962 saw the opening of Dodger Stadium. The World's Fair opens in Seattle, Washington. Frank Morris escapes from Alcatraz. The SDS completes the Port Huron Statement. The Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional. The first Wal-Mart store opens. The world's first commercial communications satellite is launched into orbit. The Rolling Stones make their debut. The last US nuclear atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site is conducted. Marilyn Monroe overdoses. Jamaica becomes independent. Silent Spring is published. The Sino-Indian War begins. The UN General Assembly passes a resolution condemning apartheid. Lawrence of Arabia opens. Linus Carl Pauling wins Nobel Peace Prize. Arthur Compton dies. C. Wright Mills dies. William Faulkner dies. Hermann Hesse dies. Eleanor Roosevelt dies. Niels Bohr dies.

My dad was born in '62 I think.

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Quote: Presentation of Mijle2003
* Cuban Crisis: WWIII was near
* Picard dives into Mariana Trench: Human reach new frontiers
* April revolution in South Korea: Freedom!
* Born of Crazyfools Dad: Uhm, ...!!!
* Cold war incident: U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers downed