Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent, is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain peak or the top of a particular climbing route. Early 20th-century…
First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 was a Fairchild F27A Friendship airliner that crashed on May 7, 1964, near San Ramon, California, a suburb in the East Bay, east of Oakland. The crash …
Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44
Lela Rochon Fuqua is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Robin Stokes in the 1995 romantic drama film Waiting to Exhale. Rochon also had roles in the fi…
Lela Rochon, American actress
Dr. Kimberly A. Weaver is an American astrophysics astronomer and professor. She has worked with NASA on several research projects. She is often seen on television programs about a…
Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
John Michael Carney is an American former professional football player who was a kicker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fightin…
John Carney, American football player
The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation constitutes a major development in modern physical cosmology. In 1964, American physicist Arno Allan Penzias and radio-astron…
Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias
The Palestine Liberation Organization is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people in the occu…
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with Yasser Arafat elected as its first leader
The Arab League, officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organization in the Arab world. The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven memb…
The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine L
Before dawn on January 30, 1964, General Nguyễn Khánh ousted the military junta led by General Dương Văn Minh from the leadership of South Vietnam without firing a shot. It came le…
Having deposed them in a January coup South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh had rival Generals Trần Văn Đôn and Lê Văn Ki
A filibuster is a parliamentary procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely prevent a decision. I…
United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage
Rosalynn Diane Sumners is an American former competitive figure skater. She was the World Junior champion in 1980, the U.S. National champion in 1982, 1983 and 1984, World champion…
Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
Gianandrea Noseda is an Italian conductor. He is currently the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., general music director (Generalmusikdirektor) …
Gianandrea Noseda, Italian pianist and conductor
Helga Arendt was a West German sprinter who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
Helga Arendt, German sprinter (died 2013)
Witold Smorawiński is a Polish classical guitarist, composer and teacher. He comes from a family of musicians and therefore he had a chance to perform in public since his childhood…
Witold Smorawiński, Polish guitarist, composer, and educator
The Cologne school massacre was a mass murder that occurred at the Catholic elementary school located in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, o…
World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children an
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authorita…
Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. It …
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate
The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor II…
A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people
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…
Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississi
Andrew Ivan Bell is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the synth-pop duo Erasure. The band achieved mainstream success and are popular withi…
Andy Bell, English singer-songwriter
Stephen Michael Ames is a professional golfer formerly of the PGA Tour, who now plays on the PGA Tour Champions. The biggest win of his career was at The Players Championship in 20…
Stephen Ames, Trinidadian golfer
Noriyuki Iwadare is a Japanese video game composer. Some of his work include the Langrisser, Lunar, Grandia, and Ace Attorney series.
Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
Ajay Kumar Kakkar, Baron Kakkar is an emeritus professor of surgery at University College London and a life peer.
Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, English surgeon and academic
Malcolm X was an African American revolutionary and Black nationalist leader who came from a background of poverty, family disruption, and criminal activity, to a prominent figure …
Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity