Explore 3652 historical events from 1960–1969.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s…
Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (born 1926)
Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson was a Baltic German ethnologist (folklorist) and numismatist.
Walter Anderson, Russian-German ethnologist and academic (born 1885)
Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson was an American rodeo champion, film actor, film director, and producer. While acting and stunt work began as a sideline to Gibson's focus on rodeo, he…
Hoot Gibson, American actor, director, and producer (born 1892)
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
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical tradition…
Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
Lei Feng, born Lei Zhengxing, was a Chinese soldier in the People's Liberation Army who was the object of several major propaganda campaigns in China. The most well-known of these …
Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (born 1940)
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