Explore 3652 historical events from 1960–1969.
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.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augus…
The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
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
Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India. It is second largest city of Assam after Guwahati in terms of population and GDP. It is …
At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Be
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: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore or
Hans Conrad Schumann, also known as Konrad Schumann, was an East German Bereitschaftspolizist who escaped to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Jarbom Gamlin was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Arunachal Pradesh and briefly served as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Prade…
Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, seventh Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (died 2014)
Norman George Cowans is a former cricketer who mainly played as a right-arm fast bowler. He was the 500th cricketer to play Test cricket for England, featuring between 1982 and 198…
Norman Cowans, Jamaican-English cricketer
Norman Julius "Boomer" Esiason is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons, primarily with the Cin…
Boomer Esiason, American football player and sportscaster
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: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after di
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceiv…
Apollo program: U
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, nicknamed "El Jefe", was a Dominican military officer and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May…
The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The Constitution of 1961 was the fundamental law of South Africa for two decades. Under the terms of the constitution South Africa ceased to be a Commonwealth realm and became a re…
The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the Republic of South Africa, which remains outs
The Canadian Bank of Commerce was a Canadian bank that operated from 1867 to 1961. It merged in 1961 with the Imperial Bank of Canada to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce…
The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the larg
Isobel Lucia Freud, is a London-based fashion designer. Her work is known for its playful and often humorous use of language. She is the daughter of the painter Lucian Freud and gr…
Bella Freud, English fashion designer
Jane Elizabeth Leeves is an English actress, best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1993–2004), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstan…
Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer
John Mordecai Podhoretz is an American journalist and conservative political commentator. The son of writers Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter, he has been the editor of the magazi…
John Podhoretz, American journalist and author
Konstantin Nikolaevich Lavronenko is a Soviet and Russian actor known for his role as the mysterious father of two boys in 2003 film Vozvrashcheniye. Lavronenko won the Best Actor …
Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
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: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a s
The wedding of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and Katharine Worsley took place on Thursday, 8 June 1961, at York Minster in York, England. The Duke of Kent is the eldest son of Princ…
Marriage of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katharine Worsley at York Minster
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia. With a coastline of approximately 500 km (311 mi), it is situated at the head of the Persian Gulf in the northeas…
Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom