Explore 2767 historical events from 1960–1969.
Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane, nicknamed "Black Mike", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for…
Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (born 1903)
Harry Richard "Cy" Morgan was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics and the Cincinnati Reds between 1903 and 1…
Cy Morgan, American baseball player (born 1878)
Charles Lyon Chandler was an American consul and historian of Latin America–United States relations. A Harvard graduate who came to South America in the Consular Service, he became…
Charles Lyon Chandler, American historian (born 1883)
Purushottam Das Tandon was a freedom fighter from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is widely remembered for his opposition to the partition of India, as well as efforts in achie…
Purushottam Das Tandon, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1882)
Bidhan Chandra Roy was an Indian physician and politician who served as Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1950 until his death in 1962. He played a key role in the founding of sev…
Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1882)
Sir Paul Boffa, OBE, was a Maltese politician and medical doctor who served as prime minister in the Colony of Malta after self-rule was reinstated by the British colonial authorit…
Paul Boffa, Maltese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1890)
Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was a prominent member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, who was a Feldmarschall of the Austr…
Joseph August, archduke of Austria (born 1872)
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette…
William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays,…
Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (born 1897)
Yehuda Leib Maimon was an Israeli rabbi, politician and leader of the Religious Zionist movement. He was Israel's first Minister of Religion.
Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (born 1875)
Roger Wolfe Kahn was an American jazz and popular musician, composer, bandleader and an aviator.
Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (born 1907)
Cuthbert Wilfrid Francis Noyce was an English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest.
Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (born 1917)
Thibaudeau Rinfret was a Canadian jurist who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Canada from 1944 to 1954 and briefly as Administrator of Canada from January to February 1952. He …
Thibaudeau Rinfret, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1879)
Richard Aldington was an English writer and poet. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. His 50-year writing career produced "143 separate titles, including poetry, lit…
Richard Aldington, English poet and author (born 1892)
James Howard "Dutch" Kindelberger was an American aviation pioneer. He led North American Aviation from 1934 until 1960. An extroverted character, Kindelberger was famed for his em…
James H. Kindelberger, American pilot and businessman (born 1895)
Leonardo De Lorenzo was an Italian virtuoso flautist and music educator. He served as the principal flautist at the New York Philharmonic under Gustav Mahler. Included among his pu…
Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian-American flute player and educator (born 1875)
The Century 21 Exposition was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during its …
The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle
Association football, more commonly known as just football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball …
One of the most violent football matches took place at the World Cup as Chile defeated Italy in a group match
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher was a British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, geneticist, and academic. He has been described as "a genius who almost …
Ronald Fisher, English biologist and statistician (born 1890)
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into E…
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on Chesapeake Bay, primar…
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business
A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials, including municipal solid waste. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial o…
A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning today
On the night of June 11, 1962, inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island…
American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States'
The 1962 Rangoon University protests, also known as the 7 July Student Uprising, were a series of marches, demonstrations, and protests against stricter campus regulations, the end…
Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic…