Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
The Fun Lounge police raid was a 1964 police raid that targeted Louie's Fun Lounge, a gay bar near Chicago, Illinois, United States. The raid led to the arrest of over 100 individu…
109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago
The wedding of Constantine II, King of the Hellenes, and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place on Friday, 18 September 1964, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.
The wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place in Athens.
Project 596 was the first nuclear test of the nuclear weapons program of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site in Xinjiang. It was an implosion fission devi…
With the success of Project 596, China became the world's fifth nuclear power.
Tanganyika was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on 9…
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
Vietnam War: An explosion attributed to Viet Cong commandos caused the escort carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of S
Ngô Đình Cẩn was the younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and an important member of the Diệm government. Diệm put Cẩn in charge of cent…
Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Ngu
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 was signed into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities…
Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy from human input, such as remote control, …
The space probe Ranger 7 captured thousands of close-up photographs of the Moon over its final minutes of flight and…
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Unio…
Vietnam War: The National Security Agency falsely claimed that a U.S. Navy destroyer was attacked a second time by…
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country's establishment in 1949 until the Peaceful Revolutio…
East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
The Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated St…
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals…
Hurricane Cleo was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1964 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the third named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the season. Cle…
Hurricane Cleo dissipated after causing 156 deaths, mainly in Haiti, and causing roughly US$187 million in damages…
The Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated St…
South Vietnamese generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after being demoted by junta leader…
The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive …
The Warren Commission released its report to the U.S. president, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the…
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled supersonic strike and reconnaissance aircraft designed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). It was under development th…
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2, an advanced Cold War tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft that was…
Mafalda is an Argentine comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Quino. The strip features a six-year-old girl named Mafalda, who reflects the Argentine middle class and progres…
Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Student leaders incl…
The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California, Berkeley, when a crowd of 3,000 students…
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, abbreviated as Politburo, was the de facto highest executive authority in the Communist Pa…
Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet…
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the 12th prime minister of Australia, serving from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United Australia Party (UAP…
Prime Minister Robert Menzies inaugurated the artificial Lake Burley Griffin (pictured) in the centre of the…
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Flem…
The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
Lieutenant General Dương Văn Đức was a Vietnamese army officer. He is best known for leading a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh on 14 September 1964. He was a supporter of…
Charges in a military court against generals Dương Văn Đức and Lâm Văn Phát of leading a coup attempt against South…
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an im…
Actor Ronald Reagan delivered a speech on behalf of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, launching his…
The Organisation of African Unity was an African intergovernmental organisation established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 33 signatory governments. Some of the key …
The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Secretary of State for War, commonly called the War Secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom. The position existed from 1794 to 1801 and agai…
The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair"