1960s Timeline.
1960 -
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
First Televised Presidential Debates
Lasers Invented
Lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NC
Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth
1961 -
Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall Built
Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
JFK Gives "Man on the Moon" Speech
Peace Corps Founded
Soviets Launch First Man in Space
Stalin's Body Removed From Lenin's Mausoleum
The Antarctic Treaty Goes Into Force
Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded
1962 -
Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
Cuban Missile Crisis
Famous Escape from Alcatraz
First James Bond Movie
First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
First Wal-Mart Opens
James Meredith Admitted Into the Segregated University of Mississippi
Johnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight Show
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring
1963 -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Betty Friedan Publishes the Feminine Mystique
Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Protest
First Dr. Who Episode Airs
First Woman in Space
Great Train Robbery in England
"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
JFK Assassinated
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
Medgar Evers Is Murdered
1964 -
Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
Italy Asks for Help to Stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued
1965 -
British Sea Gem Oil Rig Collapses
Los Angeles Riots
Malcolm X Assassinated
Miniskirt First Appears
Nicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in Romania
New York City Great Blackout
The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
1966 -
Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
Black Panther Party Established
First Kwanzaa Celebrated
Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
Two Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found
1967 -
Australian Prime Minister Disappears
Che Guevara Killed
First Heart Transplant
First Super Bowl
Six-Day War in the Middle East
Stalin's Daughter Defects
Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1968 -
Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
My Lai Massacre
Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep
Prague Spring
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
Spy Ship USS Pueblo Captured
Tet Offensive
Zodiac Killer Strikes
1969 -
ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
Manson Family Murders
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
Sesame Street First Airs
Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
First Televised Presidential Debates
Lasers Invented
Lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NC
Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth
1961 -
Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall Built
Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
JFK Gives "Man on the Moon" Speech
Peace Corps Founded
Soviets Launch First Man in Space
Stalin's Body Removed From Lenin's Mausoleum
The Antarctic Treaty Goes Into Force
Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded
1962 -
Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
Cuban Missile Crisis
Famous Escape from Alcatraz
First James Bond Movie
First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
First Wal-Mart Opens
James Meredith Admitted Into the Segregated University of Mississippi
Johnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight Show
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring
1963 -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Betty Friedan Publishes the Feminine Mystique
Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Protest
First Dr. Who Episode Airs
First Woman in Space
Great Train Robbery in England
"Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
JFK Assassinated
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
Medgar Evers Is Murdered
1964 -
Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
Italy Asks for Help to Stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued
1965 -
British Sea Gem Oil Rig Collapses
Los Angeles Riots
Malcolm X Assassinated
Miniskirt First Appears
Nicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in Romania
New York City Great Blackout
The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
1966 -
Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
Black Panther Party Established
First Kwanzaa Celebrated
Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
Two Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found
1967 -
Australian Prime Minister Disappears
Che Guevara Killed
First Heart Transplant
First Super Bowl
Six-Day War in the Middle East
Stalin's Daughter Defects
Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1968 -
Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
My Lai Massacre
Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep
Prague Spring
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
Spy Ship USS Pueblo Captured
Tet Offensive
Zodiac Killer Strikes
1969 -
ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
Manson Family Murders
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
Sesame Street First Airs
Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO