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The '60's have helped us become the country we are today. With the first African American president being born, to the loss of a loved Disney man. The events of the 60's have effected, well everybody in some way. America has changed more every day, week, and year! The '60's were a major part in changing our country. During 1960 a dance craze began.... “The Twist”! This dance is a very well know dance that includes a partner, but you do not have to make contact with them. Chubby Checker released the song “ The Twist” on August 1, 1960. The song goes with the dance, which makes sense since they both have the same name. What made the song really popular was when it was showed on “The Dick Clark Show”. The song was on the top of the U.S pop music chart once for 18 weeks straight! Then again for 21 weeks in 1961! Many other dances followed without touching your partner but still needing a partner to do the dance. Meanwhile when the people in Alaska were enjoying “The Twist” when a twist of events occurred. On March 27, 1964 at 5:36 PM an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 hit. It became the second largest recorded in the world. The biggest earthquake in the world was one that occurred in Chile, with a magnitude of 9.5 in 1960. The Alaskan earthquake's epicenter was in the region of Prince William Sound. Damage covered about 130,000 kilometers, but it was felt from 1,300,000 kilometers away. The places that felt the earthquake were: Allof, Alaska, Some parts of Canada, and south of Washington. Speaking of a cold winter year-round state, the Winter Olympics were held four years later in Grenoble, France. This was also the first time the Olympics was broadcast in color. This was also the day of when west and east Germany could finally compete together. The day of the 1968 Winter Olympics was February 5th. 1,159 athletes gathered to compete for the chance to win one of the three medals. 35 events took place with ten different sports. The youngest competitor there was eleven years old, and the oldest was 51 years old. Norway won with a grand total of 14 medals. The final day of the games was February 8th. The people in the Olympics have to be completely off of drugs, cigarettes, etc. So that's how this rule came into hand. During 1965, ads for cigarettes were taken off of TV, magazines, etc. Great Britain is where the ads first started leaving the eyes of the world. The Federal Cigarette Labeling Company held what's called an Advertising Act. The Advertising Act was passed and only allowed health warnings on the back of cigarette packs. On the back of the packs it would say: Caution cigarette smoking may be harmful to your health. The ads were also taken off of the U.K. and The United States. Overall, about 42.4% of people in the world were smoking at the time of 1965. One in three people get lung cancer from smoking. Doctors even say 100% of people who smoke get some kind of lung damage. Even our 44th president had smoking troubles in his past. Barack Obama, the United States 44th president and the first African American president was elected in 2008. President Obama was born on August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is now currently 47 years old. His father left him and his mother (Ann Dunham) when he was only two years old. President Obama and his mother moved to Indonesia for eight years, then moved back to Hawaii when he was only 10 years old. In Hawaii, he lived with his maternal grandparents. He graduated High School at Punahoa High School in Hawaii. Barack Obama has played basketball throughout his teenage years. Nike footwear was and currently is one of the shoes for basketball. The Nike company first started in 1962. Phil Hampson Knight (creator of Nike) came out with the first Nike shoe as a running shoe, to get the company going. He went to college at the University of Oregon, he played on the track team here. This is also where he met the coach of the team, Bill Bowerman. Together, they teamed up to start a currently national company. During the time, a big goal of theirs was to get the company to be know for meeting athlete's needs. Since they are both former athletes themselves, this task wasn't as hard as it seemed to them. Another candy becoming well know only a few years later, Twix. The Mars company first introduced the Twix bar to the U.K in 1967. Thirteen years later the United States had their first sight of the chocolate. This well-know company is located in Virginia. Frank C. Mars and his wife Ethel Mars created the Mars company. Their company first started in Tacoma, Washington. Then in 1920, Mars inc. moved to Minneapolis,Minnesota. Finally, the Twix bar was born. Mars inc. has also come up with Milky Way, M & M's, and Snickers. Which all of these chocolates have done as well in sales as the Twix bar. Half of the sales for Mars inc. are the following: 50% from Europe, 40% from America, and the other ten percent from Australia. Twix has and still is a very popular candy bar, another popular thing everyone knows about is Disney World. The great man himself Walt Disney is the creator, but now isn't here anymore. Walt Disney was born on December 1st, 1901. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. When he was only four years old, he moved to Marceline, Missouri. This is where he spent a majority of his childhood. Him and his family lived on a farm during the time, then they eventually moved to Kansas City, Kansas when Disney was eight years old. Disney was a director, film producer, and even a voice actor. Disney created his company in 1923 in Los Angeles, California. He joined forces with his brother Roy Disney, then Disney Brothers Studios was born! He created his first Disney character in 1928, Oswald the lucky rabbit. Yet, Disney still didn't feel like Oswald was the right character to get him started. So in 1928 he went on a five day vacation, and pop! The idea of Mortimer the mouse came to him. Soon, he changed the name from Mortimer Mouse to Mickey Mouse. After many movies and the making of many more characters, a sad truth became. In December of 1966, Walt Elias Disney died of lung cancer. He was 65 years old and was buried in Glendale, California. The end of Disney himself didn't stop people from creating new things, like the space mission, Apollo 9. In 1969, at 11:00 AM on March 3rd, (which was originally scheduled for February 28th) the Apollo 9 launched into space. James Mcdivitt, David Scott, and Russel Schweickart were the three men to go to space on this mission. At 3:08 PM (during the same day) the spacecraft separated and continued through space. During the mission, they tracked Pegasus the third, which is NASA's meteoroid tracking satellite. They also demonstrated crew, and space vehicle mission support facilities performance. They all returned safely to earth and had a successful mission on March 13th. It was a total of six million kilometers of flight. They were gone for ten days, eleven hours, and one minute. Those dates don't seem very important, but specificness is significant, even with books. Like the book “where the wild things are”. “Where the wild things are” was published in 1963, and written by Maurice Sendak. The book won an award in 1964 (the Caldecott medal) for most distinguished picture book of the year. In this story, the main character Max lets his imagination go well... wild! People say the author's imagination helped make the book so popular. It sold over nineteen million copies. They came out with a movie for it in 2009. From a dance craze to a disappearance of ads. The 60's have also had many more accomplishments throughout their decade. From life changing earthquakes, to the start of a major athletic company. The 60's have helped us become the country we are today.

The 1960's Alex Kirian March 8th, 2012 Coach Reid Social studies core 3 Works Cited pages

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