Okay, okay I know that there definitely are bigger things to focus on in the world right now besides how similar this year and past years are but I mean c'mon. From things like pandemics, to celebrities being president, even down to the ever present threat of the Russia government... it's kinda crazy.
Tragic Celebrity Deaths
The 1960's ushered in the tragic death of many iconic celebrities. Marilyn Monroe died via suicide through overdose and Ernest Hemingway died through gunshot wound. Of course there was also the mysterious death by gun shot of John F. Kennedy in 1962 at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant died in late January of this year in a helicopter crash and the death of Naya Rivera due to drowning are certainly the most tragic deaths to have happened in 2020 thus far.
The Return of Cults
In the 1960's, Charles Manson started his own little collection of runaway teenagers and vagrant outcasts and called the group the Manson Family. He would force them to experiment with many drugs, especially LSD, and manipulate them into doing anything he wanted. This group is the most well known for the murder of Sharon Tate and a few of her friends.
NXIVM was thought of to just be another multi-level marketing program. It would turn out in 2019 that instead of providing seminars about personal and professional success, they were running an underground sex-cult. During the hot summer months, the leader, Keith Raniere, and many other high profile members of NXVIM were arrested for their crimes.
The Civil Rights Movement
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I feel like this one was obvious... in the 1960's, due to things like segregation and overall systemic racism, people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X rose up to end discrimination against the color of their skin. Many people fought against Jim Crowe laws and would eventually bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 and is somewhat of a continuation of what Martin Luther King and Malcolm X started. After courts declared the man who shot Trayvon Martin as guilty, the response was the founding of BLM.
