Explore 4770 historical events from 1960–1969.
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt was an American abstract painter and art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on…
Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (born 1913)
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, poet, revolutionary, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.
Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author (born 1891)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His p…
Siegfried Sassoon, English soldier and writer (born 1886)
Francis DeSales Ouimet was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the "father of amateur golf" in the United States. He won the U.S. Open in 1913 and was the f…
Francis Ouimet, American golfer and banker (born 1893)
Tadeusz Żyliński was a Polish technician, textilist and mechanical engineer. He was a professor of Technical University of Łódź, creator of Polish school of textile metrology. Auth…
Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish engineer and academic (born 1904)
Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has…
Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (born 1903)
Air Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and Governor of South Australia from 23 February 1953 until 7 March 1960. He was born in t…
Robert George, English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (born 1896)
Leonard Percy Lord, 1st Baron Lambury KBE was a captain of the British motor industry.
Leonard Lord, English businessman (born 1896)
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ernest Walton for their splitting of the atomic nucleus, which led t…
John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova was a Russian painter during the Modernist period.
Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-French painter (born 1884)
Muhammad bin Awad bin Ladin was a Yemeni-born Saudi billionaire business magnate working primarily in the construction industry. He founded what is today the Saudi Binladin Group a…
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (born 1903)
Stanisław Jan Cyganiewicz, better known by his ring name Stanislaus Zbyszko, was a Polish strongman, catch wrestler, and professional wrestler. He was a three-time World Heavyweigh…
Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (born 1879)
Knyaz Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston was a Russian aristocrat from the House of Yusupov who is best known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasput…
Felix Yusupov, Russian husband of Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (born 1887)
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolatio…
Carson McCullers, American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet (born 1917)
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
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
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