Explore 4408 historical events from 1960–1969.
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. He has been described as "a genius who almost …
Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (born 1890)
Leonardo De Lorenzo was an Italian virtuoso flautist and music educator. He served as the principal flautist at the New York Philharmonic under Gustav Mahler. Included among his pu…
Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (born 1875)
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s…
Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)
Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.
Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (born 1885)
Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson was an American rodeo champion, film actor, film director, and producer. While acting and stunt work began as a sideline to Gibson's focus on rodeo, he…
Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (born 1892)
William Richard "Billy" Wilkerson was an American businessman who founded The Hollywood Reporter. He was real estate developer in Las Vegas and owner of such nightclubs as Ciro's. …
William Wilkerson, American publisher and businessman (born 1890)
Hanns Eisler was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for…
Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (born 1898)
Seiichiro Kashio was a tennis player from Japan, and with Ichiya Kumagae was one of the first Japanese Olympic medalists. He won the 1919 Canadian Open by defeating United State…
Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (born 1892)
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical tradition…
Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Lei Feng, born Lei Zhengxing, was a Chinese soldier in the People's Liberation Army who was the object of several major propaganda campaigns in China. The most well-known of these …
Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (born 1940)
Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambul…
E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (born 1894)
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking coun…
Karen Blixen, Danish memoirist and short story writer (born 1885)
Graham William Walker was an English motorcycle racer, broadcaster and journalist. He also contributed greatly to the motorcycle section of the National Motor Museum.
Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer and journalist (born 1897)
Spottswood Poles was an American outfielder in baseball's Negro leagues. One of the fastest players of his era, Poles was sometimes referred to as "the black Ty Cobb."
Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier (born 1887)
Rangeya Raghava was an Indian writer.
Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (born 1923)
Frederick William Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer. He competed for the track and field teams …
Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach (born 1879)
Therese Neumann was a German Catholic mystic and stigmatic. Neumann has been considered a Servant of God by the Catholic Church since 2005.
Therese Neumann, German mystic (born 1898)
The Century 21 Exposition was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during its …
The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle
Association football, more commonly known as just football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball …
One of the most violent football matches took place at the World Cup as Chile defeated Italy in a group match
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into E…
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on Chesapeake Bay, primar…
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business
A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials, including municipal solid waste. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial o…
A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning today
On the night of June 11, 1962, inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island…
American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States'
The 1962 Rangoon University protests, also known as the 7 July Student Uprising, were a series of marches, demonstrations, and protests against stricter campus regulations, the end…
Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic…