Explore 2767 historical events from 1960–1969.
John Hannah is a Scottish actor and narrator. He came to prominence in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Suppor…
John Hannah, Scottish actor and producer
Shaun Mark Spiers is the Executive Director of the environmental think-tank, Green Alliance and a former Member of the European Parliament.
Shaun Spiers, English businessman and politician
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Superm…
In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking…
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been car…
Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the…
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built …
Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
Telstar is a series of communications satellites. The first two, Telstar 1 and Telstar 2, were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket on…
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the…
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Clemens Binninger is a German politician of the CDU. Binninger was a member of the Bundestag from 2002 until 2017.
Clemens Binninger, German politician
Stuart Pearce is an English professional football manager and former player, who was most recently a first-team coach for Premier League club West Ham United. He was nicknamed "Psy…
Stuart Pearce, English footballer, coach, and manager
Stephen David Roach, nicknamed Blocker or Blocker Roach, is an Australian former professional rugby league who played as a prop forward in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Steve Roach, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
Foeke Booy is a Dutch former professional footballer player and manager who is the head of scouting for Eerste Divisie club Almere City. A forward during a sixteen-year playing car…
Foeke Booy, Dutch footballer and manager
Colin Anderson is an English former professional footballer, predominantly playing on left side of defence or midfield.
Colin Anderson, English footballer
Ángel David Comizzo Leiva is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
Ángel Comizzo, Argentinian footballer and manager
The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental highway system within the country of Canada. The system traverses all ten provinces of Canada, and the main route travels 7,821 kilom…
The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
Jeff Minter is an English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the nickname Yak. He co-founded independent video game developer Llamasoft in 1982 and was the sole g…
Jeff Minter, British video game designer and programmer
Debra Wilson is an American actress, puppeteer, and comedian. She is the longest-serving original cast member on the sketch comedy series Mad TV, having appeared on the show's firs…
Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
Seppo Henrik Räty is a retired Finnish track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He was a World Champion, having won gold in 1987. He was also an Olympic medalist.…
Seppo Räty, Finnish javelin thrower and coach
Im Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He has twice been invited to compete for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival: first for The Housemaid in 2010, …
Im Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Bedfordshire from 2001 until 2024, when the constituency was aboli…
Andrew Selous, English soldier and politician
Polly Samson is an English novelist, lyricist and journalist. She is married to the musician David Gilmour and has written lyrics for many of his songs, including albums with his b…
Polly Samson, English novelist, lyricist and journalist
Maia Emilia Ninel Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress. Internationally, she is best known for portraying the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Chr…
Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress
Michael Grandage CBE is a British theatre director and producer. He is currently artistic director of the Michael Grandage Company. From 2002 to 2012 he was artistic director of th…
Michael Grandage, English director and producer
James Warren White is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his swift and attacking style of play, White has r…
Jimmy White, English snooker player
David Gahan is an English singer best known as the co-founder and lead singer of electronic music band Depeche Mode since their formation in 1980. Noted for his commanding stage pr…
Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter