Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court'…
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolut…
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. Guevara would be executed the next day.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolut…
A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissol…
The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 to 1979 as the second monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty. He succeeded his father, Reza Shah, and ruled the Imperial…
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.
David Carlyle Rocastle was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the roles of a playmaker and a winger.
David Rocastle, English footballer (died 2001)
Daniel Stewart Anderson is an Australian professional rugby league coach. Anderson previously coached the New Zealand Warriors and the Parramatta Eels in the NRL and St. Helens in …
Daniel Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager
Kathryn Mary Draper-Garraway is an English broadcaster and journalist. In the 1990s, Garraway was a journalist for ITV News Central and later a co-presenter of ITV News Meridian. F…
Kate Garraway, English journalist
Ana Kristina Gasteyer is an American actress, comedian and singer. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002. She has since starre…
Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer
Charles Harrison Nagy is an American former Major League Baseball All-Star right-handed pitcher who played for 14 seasons in the major leagues from 1990 to 2003. He played for the …
Charles Nagy, American baseball player
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the eighth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it…
Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
Sherri Evonne Shepherd is an American actress, comedian, author, podcaster, television presenter and talk show host. She currently hosts the daily syndicated daytime talk show Sher…
Sherri Shepherd, American actress, comedian, and television personality
Dino Rađa is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He was a member of the Jugoplastika team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which he helped to win two FIBA European …
Dino Rađa, Croatian basketball player
Glenn Thomas Jacobs, also known by his ring name Kane, is an American politician, actor and professional wrestler. He rose to fame in WWE, where he holds the record for most matche…
Glenn Thomas Jacobs, American professional wrestler, actor, businessman and politician
Kenneth Joel Hotz is a Canadian comedy writer, filmmaker, entertainer and television personality. He is best known as the star of the former reality comedy show Kenny vs. Spenny (2…
Kenny Hotz, Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian
Adam Hughes is an American comics artist and illustrator best known to American comic book readers for his renderings of pinup-style female characters, and his cover work on title…
Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator
Roberto d'Amico is a Belgian trade unionist, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he has represented Hainaut since Ju…
Roberto d'Amico, Belgian politician
Martin John Bryant is an Australian mass murderer who shot and killed 35 people and injured 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre on 28 and 29 April 1996. He is currently serving 3…
Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer
Joe Rice is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado, an Iraq War veteran, and a former mayor of Glendale, Colorado.
Joe Rice, American colonel and politician
Viviana Durante is an Italian ballet dancer, considered one of the great dramatic ballerinas of recent times. She was a principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatr…
Viviana Durante, Italian ballerina and actress
Alexis Sinduhije is a Burundian journalist and politician. After founding Radio Publique Africaine during the Burundi Civil War, Sinduhije received a CPJ International Press Freedo…
Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician
Alberto García Aspe Mena is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager
Eion Crossan is a New Zealand former Rugby Footballer who played Rugby Union for Southland and Bay of Plenty between 1987 and 1996, and Rugby League for the South Sydney Rabbitohs …
Eion Crossan, New Zealand rugby player
William Richard Shorten is an Australian former politician and trade unionist who served as the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Labor Party from 2013 to 2019, and se…
Bill Shorten, Australian politician