Explore 2767 historical events from 1960–1969.
Grace Hutchins was an American labor reformer and researcher, journalist, political activist and communist. She spent many years of her life writing about labor and economics, in a…
Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (born 1885)
Sir James Louis Fitzroy Scott Douglas, 6th Baronet was a British racing driver and a baronet.
James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (born 1930)
Mary Jo Kopechne was an American secretary, and one of the campaign workers for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, a close team known as the "Boiler Room …
Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (born 1940)
Efstratios Stamatopoulos was a Greek writer. He is known for writing novels, novellas, and short stories under the pseudonym Stratis Myrivilis. He is associated with the "Generatio…
Stratis Myrivilis, Greek soldier and author (born 1890)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist fla…
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (born 1904)
Ramón Grau San Martín was a Cuban physician and politician who served as President of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and from 1944 to 1948. He led the Cuban student movement in the 1933 Cu…
Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (born 1882)
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, among other…
Frank Loesser, American composer (born 1910)
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Comintern. B…
Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček was deposed
Preston Earnest Smith was an American entrepreneur and politician who served as the 40th governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973. A conservative member of the Democratic Party, he prev…
Preston Smith, Governor of Texas, signed a law converting a research arm of Texas Instruments into the University of Tex
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the …
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the assassination of U
The 13 May incident was a period of violent racial conflict that erupted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 13 May 1969, following that year's general election. The clashes primarily in…
Sino-Malay race riots began in Kuala Lumpur, leaving at least 190 people dead, with the government declaring a state of
Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea, about 65 km (40 mi) north …
A demonstration by workers and activists on the Caribbean island of Curaçao escalated into a violent uprising which des
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty si…
During a SEATO exercise in the South China Sea, a collision between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E
Blind Faith were an English rock supergroup that consisted of Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. They followed the success of each of the member's former ban…
In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debut
The Stonewall Inn is a gay bar and recreational tavern at 53 Christopher Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was the site of the 19…
In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstra
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals…
Two days after the death of their founder Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones performed at a free festival in Hyde Park,…
Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, and the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. The mission was crewed by Commander Neil Armstro…
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the…
H-dagurinn or Hægri dagurinn on 26 May 1968 was the day that Iceland changed from left hand traffic to right hand traffic. The change itself occurred formally at 6:00 am.
H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
On 28 May 1968, Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892, a scheduled international passenger flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam with stopovers in Singapore, Bangkok, Bombay, Karachi, Ca…
Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30
Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney g…
Presidential candidate Robert F
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's …
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Lloyd John Old was an American medical researcher, and one of the founders of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infancy…
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Lloyd John Old was an American medical researcher, and one of the founders of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infancy…
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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 …
English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech