Explore 4408 historical events from 1960–1969.
Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives and large non-nuclear explosions for peaceful construction purpo…
As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
The Late Late Show, with its title often shortened to The Late Late, is an Irish chat show. It is the world's second longest-running late-night talk show, after the American The To…
The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
Telstar 1 is a defunct communications satellite launched by NASA on 10 July 1962. One of the earliest communications satellites, it was the first telecommunications satellite, achi…
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceiv…
Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the…
Sanjaasürengiin Zorig was a Mongolian politician who played a prominent role in leading the country's 1990 democratic revolution. His supporters called him the "Golden Swallow of D…
Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, Mongolian Politician, (died 1998)
Danièle Sauvageau is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former coach. Sauvageau was the head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team that won the gold medal in ice hock…
Danièle Sauvageau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
John Hannah is a Scottish actor and narrator. He came to prominence in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Suppor…
John Hannah, Scottish actor and producer
Shaun Mark Spiers is the Executive Director of the environmental think-tank, Green Alliance and a former Member of the European Parliament.
Shaun Spiers, English businessman and politician
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Superm…
In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking…
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been car…
Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the…
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built …
Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
Telstar is a series of communications satellites. The first two, Telstar 1 and Telstar 2, were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket on…
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the…
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Clemens Binninger is a German politician of the CDU. Binninger was a member of the Bundestag from 2002 until 2017.
Clemens Binninger, German politician
Stuart Pearce is an English professional football manager and former player, who was most recently a first-team coach for Premier League club West Ham United. He was nicknamed "Psy…
Stuart Pearce, English footballer, coach, and manager
Stephen David Roach, nicknamed Blocker or Blocker Roach, is an Australian former professional rugby league who played as a prop forward in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Steve Roach, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
Foeke Booy is a Dutch former professional footballer player and manager who is the head of scouting for Eerste Divisie club Almere City. A forward during a sixteen-year playing car…
Foeke Booy, Dutch footballer and manager
Colin Anderson is an English former professional footballer, predominantly playing on left side of defence or midfield.
Colin Anderson, English footballer
Ángel David Comizzo Leiva is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
Ángel Comizzo, Argentinian footballer and manager
The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental highway system within the country of Canada. The system traverses all ten provinces of Canada, and the main route travels 7,821 kilom…
The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authorita…
Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10,991 square kilometres (4,244 sq mi). It is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean, after Cuba…
Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician who had a 45-year career with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As a reviewer, she re…
Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished…
Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were Soviet space program flights in August 1962, intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness, test the gr…
Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in…