The Decade You Were Born: The 60s

If you were born in the '60s, your decade opened with John F. Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States. Over 850,000 “war baby” students entered college as freshmen. The cartoon The Flintstones appeared on television for the first time. Chubby Checker started a new dance craze with The Twist. The U.S. men’s ice hockey team won gold in the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California and Alan Shepard made the first U.S. space flight.