Explore 2767 historical events from 1960–1969.
Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency. It was l…
The United States conducted the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test, the largest nuclear explosion in outer space.
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-to late 1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by in…
In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los…
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the rock era…
The English rock band the Rolling Stones (pictured) played their first concert at the Marquee Club in London.
A cabinet reshuffle or shuffle occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet, or when the head of state changes the head of gove…
In an unprecedented reshuffle, British prime minister Harold Macmillan dismissed seven members of his cabinet.
The Algiers putsch, also known as the putsch of the generals, was a failed coup d'état intended to force French President Charles de Gaulle not to abandon French Algeria, the resid…
Algiers putsch by French generals
Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 196…
Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit
The prime minister of Cuba is the head of government of Cuba and the chair of the Council of Ministers (cabinet). The prime minister is the third-highest office in Cuba, after the …
The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections
Air France Flight 406 was a Lockheed L-1649 Starliner that crashed in French Algeria on May 10, 1961, after a bomb exploded on board. All 78 passengers and crew on board were kille…
Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 197…
In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is goin
Peter Benenson was a British barrister, human rights activist and the founder of the human rights group Amnesty International (AI); a global movement of more than 10 million people…
Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers
Viasa Flight 897 was an international scheduled Rome–Madrid–Lisbon–Santa Maria–Caracas passenger service that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal on 30 May 19…
Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from Lisbon Airport, killing 61
The Moscow City Court is the highest judicial body of the city of Moscow on civil, criminal, administrative and other cases.
In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elemen
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (…
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba
K-19 was the first submarine of the Project 658 class, the first generation of Soviet nuclear submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles, specifically the R-13 SLBM. The b…
K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement i…
American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South
Malcolm David Ross was a captain in the United States Naval Reserve (USNR), an atmospheric scientist, and a balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry, …
Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V ope
The Mariinsky Ballet is the resident classical ballet company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union
ČSA Flight 511 was a flight operated by an Ilyushin Il-18 that crashed near Casablanca-Anfa Airport in Morocco on July 12, 1961. All 72 people on board were killed. The cause of th…
ČSA Flight 511 crashes at Casablanca–Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.
Alaska Airlines Flight 779 was a contract cargo flight operated on July 21, 1961 by an Alaska Airlines Douglas DC-6A that crashed short of the runway at Shemya Air Force Base with …
Alaska Airlines Flight 779 crashes near Shemya Air Force Base in Shemya, Alaska killing six.
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: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement i…
Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bu
Park Chung Hee was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the third president of South Korea from 1962 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961 until his …
Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea
The Venera program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus. A total of eighteen probes were se…
Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost