Explore 4408 historical events from 1960–1969.
Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He was notable for playing Pancho in the television series The Cisco Kid (…
Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (born 1880)
Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips, also known as Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, was a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1…
Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (born 1928)
Carl Heinrich Hermann, also spelled Karl Hermann, was a German physicist, crystallographer, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. He is known for his research in crystallographic…
Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (born 1898)
Ernst Gustav Kühnert was a Baltic German architect and art historian in Estonia.
Ernst Gustav Kühnert, Estonian-German architect and historian (born 1885)
Hasan Polatkan was a Turkish politician and Minister of Labor and Finance, who was executed by hanging after the 1960 Turkish coup d'état along with two other cabinet members.
Hasan Polatkan, Turkish politician, 15th Turkish Minister of Finance (born 1915)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other politicians.
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1910)
Ali Adnan Ertekin Menderes was a Turkish politician who served as Prime Minister of Turkey between 1950 and 1960, and one of the founders of the Democrat Party (DP).
Adnan Menderes, Turkish lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1899)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane …
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate…
Newton Norman Minow was an American attorney who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He is famous for his 1961 speech referring to television as a "vast wa…
In a speech to U
Sir Milton Augustus Strieby Margai was a Sierra Leonean physician and politician who served as the country's head of government from 1954 until his death in 1964. He was titled chi…
Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom
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 Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second
Park Chung Hee was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the third president of South Korea from 1962 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961 until his …
Led by Park Chung Hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Po-s
A joint session of the United States Congress is a gathering of members of the two chambers of the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States: the Senate …
In an address to Congress, U
The Bukit Ho Swee fire was a conflagration that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore on 25 May 1961. This fire resulted in 4 deaths and injured another …
A fire broke out at a squatter settlement in Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless
The 1961 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 10 September 1961 at Monza. It was race 7 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 Internat…
At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips's car collided with another, causing it to become…
Super Typhoon Nancy, also known as the 2nd Muroto Typhoon , was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone of the 1961 Pacific typhoon season, produced the highest accumulated cyclone …
Typhoon Nancy, which possibly had the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made landfall in Muroto,…
The National Hurricane Research Project (NHRP) was initiated in 1955 by the United States Weather Bureau in response to the devastating 1954 hurricane season, which saw hurricanes …
The U.S. National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide,…
On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden operating for the United Nations (UN) crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia. The crash resulted in the deaths of …
An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations…
The April Revolution, also called the April 19 Revolution or April 19 Movement, were mass protests in South Korea against President Syngman Rhee and the First Republic from April 1…
Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him t
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil and the Federal District. Located in the Brazilian Highlands in the country's Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubi…
Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated
USS Triton (SSRN/SSN-586), the only member of her class, was a nuclear powered radar picket submarine in the United States Navy. She was the only Western submarine powered by two n…
The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe
The April Revolution, also called the April 19 Revolution or April 19 Movement, were mass protests in South Korea against President Syngman Rhee and the First Republic from April 1…
Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet
The Lake Bodom murders is an unsolved 1960 homicide case in which three teenage campers were killed and another seriously injured in Finland. The case is one of the most notorious …
The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland