Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Alexandra David-Néel was a French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden…
Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and activist (born 1868)
Otto Steinböck was an Austrian zoologist.
Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (born 1893)
Léon Scieur was a Belgian cyclist who won the 1921 Tour de France, along with stages 3 and 10. His first great victory was the 1920 Liège–Bastogne–Liège; he won a stage and finishe…
Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (born 1888)
Donald Albert Hoak, nicknamed "Tiger", was an American professional baseball third baseman and coach. He played eleven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1954–1964) for the Br…
Don Hoak, American baseball player (born 1928)
Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European cha…
Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (born 1912)
Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' École de Paris (Tachisme).
Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (born 1906)
Juho Julius Saaristo was a Finnish track and field athlete. He won two medals at the 1912 Olympics: a silver in conventional javelin throw and gold in the two-handed javelin throw,…
Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (born 1891)
Haguroyama Masaji was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Nakanokuchi, Niigata. He was the sport's 36th yokozuna. He was a yokozuna for a period of twelve years and three m…
Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (born 1914)
August Sang was an Estonian poet and literary translator. Sang was a member of the Arbujad literary group, which represented a new direction in Estonian poetry before the outbreak …
August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (born 1914)
Gyula Mándi, also referred to as Mándi Gyula or Julius Mandel was a Hungarian Olympic national team and club footballer, who played as a defender and fullback/ He was also a manage…
Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1899)
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (born 1922)
Lacey Earnest Hearn was an American athlete and middle distance runner who competed in the early twentieth century. Individually he specialized in the 1500 Metres, and he won a bro…
Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (born 1881)
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions, and topology. He published over 700 paper…
Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (born 1882)
Thomas Jefferson Edwards was an American singer and songwriter. His most successful record was the multi-million-selling song "It's All in the Game", becoming the first African-Ame…
Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (born 1922)
Behçet Kemal Çağlar was a Turkish poet, educator and nationalist politician.
Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (born 1908)
Ellinor Aiki was an Estonian painter who is possibly best recalled for her works in later life of vibrant and colorful, heavily textured portraits, landscapes and compositions inte…
Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (born 1893)
Constance Dowling was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Constance Dowling, American model and actress (born 1920)
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
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
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
On August 5, 1969, the Atlanta Police Department led a police raid on a screening of the film Lonesome Cowboys at a movie theater in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Police raided a screening of the film Lonesome Cowboys in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of a Gay…
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