Explore 1225 historical events from 1960–1969.
John James "Jolly Jack" Adams was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and general manager in the National Hockey League and Pacific Coast Hockey Association. He playe…
Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (born 1895)
Mercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian aff…
Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1893)
William Finlay Currie was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946),…
Finlay Currie, British actor (born 1878)
Scott Hastings Beckett was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later costarred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.
Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (born 1929)
Husband Edward Kimmel was a United States Navy four-star admiral who was the commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) during the Japanese attack on Pearl …
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Francis Henry Walsh was an Australian politician who was the 34th Premier of South Australia from 1965 to 1967, representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Par…
Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (born 1897)
Hessy Doris Lloyd was a British actress. She appeared in The Time Machine (1960) and The Sound of Music (1965).
Doris Lloyd, English actress (born 1896)
Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. He commanded …
Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (born 1881)
Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov was a Soviet sniper during World War II credited with 429 kills. Nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 after tallying his first 420 …
Fyodor Okhlopkov, Russian sergeant and sniper (born 1908)
Joseph-Edmond-André Laurendeau was a journalist, politician, co-chair of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, and playwright in Quebec, Canada. He is usually ref…
André Laurendeau, Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (born 1912)
André Mathieu was a Canadian pianist and composer.
André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1929)
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American stage and screen actress. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success …
Dorothy Gish, American actress (born 1898)
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Between hi…
Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada, succeeding Lester B
Arnold Susi was a lawyer and the Minister of Education in the Estonian government of Otto Tief established on 18 September 1944 during WWII. In 1945, Susi befriended Aleksandr Sol…
Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (born 1896)
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a …
Helen Keller, American author and activist (born 1880)
John Enoch Powell was a British politician, scholar and writer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South West for the Conservative Party from 1950 to February 1974 …
Enoch Powell, a British Conservative member of Parliament, made a controversial speech in opposition to immigration and
South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to London, England. The Boeing 707-300C operating the flight, which was only six weeks old,…
South African Airways Flight 228 crashed shortly after take-off from Windhoek in South West Africa, resulting in 123 dea
Broadway theatre, or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater Di…
The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming a
Bucks County Community College (Bucks) is a public community college in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1964, Bucks has three campuses and online courses: a main campus in N…
About 200 students at Bucks County Community College held a protest after the college canceled a planned speech by gay r
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force began the defence of Fire Support Base Coral in the largest unit-level action
Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while r…
American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York
A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that…
A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a milita
A destructive tornado outbreak affected much of the Midwestern United States on April 21, 1967, in particular the towns of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States. It was t…
A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000
The Soviet space program was the state space program of the Soviet Union, active from 1951 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unlike its Space Race competitor, the …
Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1), a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komar