Explore 1225 historical events from 1960–1969.
William Rahr Callahan is an American singer-songwriter, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre, with home-made tape…
Bill Callahan, American singer-songwriter
Cecilia Bartoli OMRI is an Italian mezzo-soprano, widely known for her renditions of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, and Vivaldi, as well as lesser-known music of th…
Cecilia Bartoli, Italian soprano and actress
Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya is a mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics. She is a distinguished professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech and UC Ir…
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, American mathematician
Wasim Akram is a Pakistani cricket commentator, coach, and former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. Akram is regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of a…
Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky was a Russian-American mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to th…
Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2017)
Sir William David Wiggin is a former British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Herefordshire, previously Leominster, from 2001 to 2024.
Bill Wiggin, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
Eric Frank Lambert was an Australian author and a sometime member of the Communist Party of Australia.
Eric Lambert, Australian author (born 1918)
Väinö Alfred Tanner was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and a pioneer and leader of the cooperative movement in Finland. He was Prime Minister of Finlan…
Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1881)
George Ohsawa was a Japanese author and proponent of alternative medicine who was the founder of the macrobiotic diet. When living in Europe he went by the pen names of Musagendo S…
George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (born 1893)
Simon Ivanes dze Chikovani was a prominent Georgian poet. He set out to be the leader of the Georgian Futurist movement and ended up as a Soviet establishment figure.
Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (born 1902)
William Henry Eccles, FRS was an English physicist who was a pioneer in the development of radio communication.
William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (born 1875)
Paula Strasberg was an American stage actress. She became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife and mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg, as well as Marilyn Monroe's a…
Paula Strasberg, American actress and acting coach (born 1909)
Felix Martin Julius Steiner was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. During World War II, he served in the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the SS, and commanded several SS di…
Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer (born 1896)
Thomas William John Goddard was an English cricketer and the fifth-highest wicket taker in first-class cricket.
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (born 1900)
Elizabeth Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling was an American writer and political activist. In 1934, she published The Red Network—A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, whic…
Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (born 1894)
Ignace Lepp, was a French writer of Estonian origin.
Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (born 1909)
George Vitelle "Papa Jack" Laine was an American musician and a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish–American War to World War I. He was often credit…
Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (born 1873)
Lieutenant General Tôn Thất Đính was an officer who served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He is best known as one of the key figures in the November 1963 coup that …
Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorolog…
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon
The 1964 New York World's Fair was an international exposition at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. The fair included exhibitions, activities, p…
The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season
Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen was an Egyptian-born Israeli spy. He is best known for his espionage work in Syria between 1961 and 1965, where he developed close relationships with the Sy…
Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 (PK705) was a Boeing 720 airliner that crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport on 20 May 1965. Of the 127 passeng…
One hundred twenty-one people are killed when Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashes at Cairo International
Yves-François Blanchet is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Bloc Québécois (BQ) and member of Parliament (MP) for Beloeil—Chambly since 2019.
Yves-François Blanchet, Canadian politician
The Dominican Civil War, also known as the April Revolution, took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started when civilia…
Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been i