US President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress and promised to put a man on the moon within a decade.
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NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the first American lunar mission in ten years.
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the schoolhouse door, refusing entry to two African American students.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy holds his iconic 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech.
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, the late President Kennedy's younger brother.
The US spacecraft, Voyager, took the first-ever photograph of the moon and Earth together from space.