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Can you determine which of these pairs of events of the 1960s occurred first? Enter 'A' or 'B'

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A	First to Occur	B
The first Super Bowl		Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game
Kenya's independence from the UK		Algeria's independence from France
Jimi Hendrix plays the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock		Bob Dylan plugs in at Newport festival
Bonnie and Clyde released		Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid released
The Beatles make their first live US performance on the Ed Sullivan Show		The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson premiers with Groucho Marx as the first guest
The first TGI Fridays restaurant opens		The first Wendy's opens
Robert Kennedy assassinated		Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is published		First part of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is published in The New Yorker
Richard Nixon says 'Sock it to me' on Laugh-In		Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird first coins the term Vietnamization (Vietnamizing)
Alan Shepard is the first American in space		Yuri Gagarin is the first Russian in space
The first Ken doll is introduced		The first G.I. Joe action figure is introduced
Death of Jayne Mansfield		Death of Marilyn Monroe
Paul VI becomes pope		The Beatles travel to India to study under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A Charlie Brown Christmas first airs		Arlo Guthrie releases the Thanksgiving Day classic Alice's Restaurant
The first Super Bowl
Kenya's independence from the UK
Jimi Hendrix plays the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock
Bonnie and Clyde released
The Beatles make their first live US performance on the Ed Sullivan Show
The first TGI Fridays restaurant opens
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is published
Richard Nixon says 'Sock it to me' on Laugh-In
Alan Shepard is the first American in space
The first Ken doll is introduced
Death of Jayne Mansfield
Paul VI becomes pope
A Charlie Brown Christmas first airs

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