Explore 2767 historical events from 1960–1969.
Guy Favreau was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (born 1917)
Thomas Simpson was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road c…
Tom Simpson, English cyclist (born 1937)
John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century mus…
John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (born 1926)
John Theodore McNaughton was an American government official who was United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Robert S. McNamara's closes…
John T. McNaughton, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and an advisor to…
Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (born 1884)
Tudor Arghezi was a Romanian writer and political figure, widely considered one of his country's greatest poets. An illegitimate, part-Hungarian child who was purposely vague about…
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (born 1880)
James Emory Foxx, nicknamed "Double X" and "the Beast", was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphi…
Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1907)
Albert John Luthuli was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 u…
Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and w…
Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (born 1892)
Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During…
Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (born 1878)
Konstantinos Parthenis was a Greek painter. Born in Alexandria, part of the Greek community in Egypt, Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and intr…
Konstantinos Parthenis, Egyptian-Greek painter (born 1878)
Tone Peruško, was a Croatian educator, social worker and writer.
Tone Peruško, Croatian educator and social worker (born 1905)
Karl Wendell Richter was an officer in the United States Air Force and an accomplished fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. At the age of 23 he was the youngest pilot in that conf…
Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1942)
Zakir Husain Khan was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the vice president of India from 1962 to 1967 and president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3…
Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India
The Israeli Air Force operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of I…
The Israeli Air Force attacked the U
On the afternoon of April 21, 1967, a violent tornado tracked through Belvidere, Illinois, United States. The tornado struck just after students at the city's high school had been …
A violent tornado strikes multiple schools and destroys houses in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, causing over 450 c
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 29, 1967. It was a category one world's fair held in M…
The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations participating and more than 50 million visitors ultimately
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. He was in…
The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the critically acclaimed and widely influential debut album Are You Experienced
The Kapsan faction incident was an unsuccessful attempt to undermine the power of Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea, around 1967. The "Kapsan faction" was a group of veterans …
Having purged a group of rivals, Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Il Sung delivered the "May 25 teaching", entrenching
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most in…
The Beatles' Sgt
The second question of the 1967 Australian referendum of 27 May 1967, called by the Holt government, related to Indigenous Australians. Voters were asked whether to give the Common…
Australians voted overwhelmingly to include Indigenous Australians in population counts for constitutional purposes and
Benno Ohnesorg was a West German university student who was fatally shot in the back of the head by policeman Karl-Heinz Kurras during a demonstration in West Berlin. His death spu…
Benno Ohnesorg, a German university student, was killed in West Berlin while protesting against the visit of Shah Mohamm
British Midland Airways Limited was an airline in the United Kingdom with its head office in Donington Hall in Castle Donington, close to East Midlands Airport, England. The airlin…
A chartered British Midland Airways aircraft crashed near Stockport, England, killing 72 of the 84 people on board
Operation Focus was the opening airstrike by Israel at the start of the Six-Day War in 1967. It is sometimes referred to as the "Sinai Air Strike". At 07:45 on 5 June 1967, the Isr…
Following Israel's initiation of Operation Focus with the goal to neutralise the Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force, a