1960s
Top, L-R: A soldier crawls on the ground in the Vietnam War; The Beatles, part of the British Invasion, change music in the United States and around the world.
Centre, L-R: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, after serving as President for three years; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream Speech to a crowd of over a million; millions participate in the Woodstock Festival of 1969.
Bottom, L-R: China's Mao Zedong puts forward the Great Leap Forward plan; the Stonewall Inn, site of major demonstrations for gay and lesbian rights; for the first time in history, a human being sets foot on the Moon, in the Moon landing of July 1969
Centre, L-R: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, after serving as President for three years; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream Speech to a crowd of over a million; millions participate in the Woodstock Festival of 1969.
Bottom, L-R: China's Mao Zedong puts forward the Great Leap Forward plan; the Stonewall Inn, site of major demonstrations for gay and lesbian rights; for the first time in history, a human being sets foot on the Moon, in the Moon landing of July 1969
The 1960s was the decade that started on January 1, 1960 and ended on December 31, 1969. Many things happened in the sixties, including the Space Race, the Civil Rights movement, and the Vietnam War.
The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called the Sixties. This was a set of cultural and political trends around the globe. This "cultural decade" is loosely defined as beginning around 1963 and ending around 1974.[1][2]
The social revolution of the 1960s was part of a wider counterculture. Old ways were changed, new ways taken up. Typical was the introduction of the birth control pill, and its effect on sexual activity, widespread use of certain drugs and a general disrespect for traditional ways.
Pop art also started in the 1960s.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s |
| Years: | 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
Events
- Decolonization of much of Africa
- 1961 – Berlin Wall built.
- 1961 – Bay of Pigs invasion.
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1963 – Assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22.
- 1965 – India invades Pakistan on September 6.
- 1968 – Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
- 1969 – Under the Apollo 11 program Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans on the Moon.
- Unix created.
Significant people
- Stanley Kubrick, director
- Orson Welles, director
- The Rolling Stones, English rock band
- Muhammad Ali, boxer
- The Beatles, British rock band
- Fidel Castro, president of Cuba
- Che Guevara, Argentine marxist, revolutionary
- Sean Connery, actor
- Bob Dylan, singer, songwriter, artist
- Joan Baez, American Folk Singer
- Jimi Hendrix, rock singer
- Yuri Gagarin, astronaut
- Alfred Hitchcock, filmmaker
- Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of United Kingdom
- Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of United Kingdom
- Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of United Kingdom
- Pope John XXIII, Pope until 1963
- Lyndon Johnson, President of the United States until 1968
- John F. Kennedy, President of the United States until 1963
- Martin Luther King Jr., American Civil Rights Movement leader
- Nikita Khruschev, Soviet leader
- Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader
- Pope Paul VI since 1963
- Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China
- Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
- Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
- Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam
- Charles de Gaulle, President of France
- Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor Germany
- Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor Germany
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor Germany
- Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt
- Elvis Presley, American singer
- Mary Quant, fashion designer
- Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of John F. Kennedy
- James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Thomas Hagan, assassin of Malcolm X
References
- ↑ Barth, John 1984. Intro to The Literature of Exhaustion, in The Friday Book.
- ↑ Maslin, Janet (5 November 2007). "Brokaw explores another turning point, the '60s". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/books/05masl.html. Retrieved 26 August 2011.