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 was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a dialectical materialist interpretation of historical development, known as historical materialism…
Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
The Motherland Calls is a colossal neoclassicist and socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. Designed primarily by sculptor Yevgeny Vucheti…
The Motherland Calls (depicted in coat of arms), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the…
Venera 4, also designated 4V-1 No.310, was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. The probe comprised a lander, designed to enter the Venusian atmospher…
The Soviet space probe Venera 4 became the first spacecraft to perform direct in situ analysis of the environment of…
The Patterson–Gimlin film is a 1967 American short motion picture, created by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin, that depicts an unidentified subject that the filmmakers stated was…
Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed an unidentified subject, which they claimed was Bigfoot, at Six Rivers…
Aeroflot Flight 2723 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Bina International Airport to Makhachkala Airport. On 23 April 1966 the Ilyushin Il-14 operating the route ditched …
Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people
The Explorers Program is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Launched i…
Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches
British Guiana was a British colony located on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.
British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana
The Roman Curia comprises the administrative institutions of the Holy See. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Vatican Curia.
The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was original
The France's 1966–1970 nuclear test series was a group of 22 nuclear tests conducted in 1966–1970. These tests followed the In Ekker series and preceded the 1971–1974 French nuclea…
France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica, is a state in which political power rests with the public (people), typically through their representatives—in contrast to a mona…
Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
MV Darlwyne was a pleasure cruiser, a converted Royal Navy picket boat, that disappeared off the Cornish coast on 31 July 1966 with its complement of thirty-one. Twelve bodies and …
The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard.
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The prime minister of South Africa was the head of government in South Africa between 1910 and 1984.
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a…
The 23rd Street Fire was an incident that took place in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on October 17, 1966. A group of firefighters from the New Yo…
The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
Jarle Vespestad is a Norwegian jazz musician (percussion), the younger brother of jazz musician Liz Tove Vespestad, and a central member of Tord Gustavsen's projects.
Jarle Vespestad, Norwegian drummer
Kennedy John Victor, known professionally as Chiyaan Vikram, is an Indian actor and playback singer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. One of the highest paid actors, he is a…
Vikram, Indian actor and singer
Rastafari is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. Ther…
Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day
American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D was a flight operated on a U.S. Military Air Command contract from Monterey Regional Airport in California to Columbus Airport in Georgia, via …
American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83
Véronique Gens is a French operatic soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music.
Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress
Paul Ronald Reiffel is an Australian cricket umpire and former cricketer who played in 35 Tests and 92 One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1992 to 1999. He was part of Australia's v…
Paul Reiffel, Australian cricketer and umpire
David John Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist, specializing in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is a professor of philosophy and neural …
David Chalmers, Australian philosopher and academic
The 1966 Tashkent earthquake occurred on 26 April in the Uzbek SSR. It had a moment magnitude of 5.2 with an epicenter in central Tashkent at a depth of 3–8 kilometers (1.9–5.0 mi)…
The magnitude 5
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo…
A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye