Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
The European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) was an international organisation founded by 10 European nations with the intention of jointly pursuing scientific research in space…
The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency
Peter Fechter was an East German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East Germa…
Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
Federal Emergency Plan D-Minus was a plan developed by the United States in the 1950s to guide the federal government in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic nuclear attack. P…
The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
The Pines Express was a named passenger train that ran daily between Manchester and Bournemouth in England between 1910 and 1967.
Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam…
Aeroflot Flight 213 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Chersky Airport to Keperveyem Airport. On 18 September 1962, the Ilyushin Il-14 operating …
Aeroflot Flight 213 crashes into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people.
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills" for its high elevation and rolling terrain, its geography…
Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives and large non-nuclear explosions for peaceful construction purpo…
As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
The Late Late Show, with its title often shortened to The Late Late, is an Irish chat show. It is the world's second longest-running late-night talk show, after the American The To…
The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
Telstar 1 is a defunct communications satellite launched by NASA on 10 July 1962. One of the earliest communications satellites, it was the first telecommunications satellite, achi…
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
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…
Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the…
The Yemen Arab Republic, also known as Yemen (Sanaʽa) and commonly referred to as North Yemen, was a country that existed from 1962 until its unification with the People's Democrat…
The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov, also transliterated as Vasili Arkhipov, was a vice admiral in the Soviet Navy. He is best remembered for preventing nuclear war during the Cuban Mis…
By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
Anna Dello Russo is an Italian fashion journalist. She is a creative consultant and editor-at-large for Vogue Japan.
Anna Dello Russo, Italian journalist
Paul Frank Nicholls is a British National Hunt horse trainer with stables at Ditcheat, Somerset. A relatively successful jump jockey, Nicholls has become the leading National Hunt …
Paul Nicholls, English jockey and trainer
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Superm…
In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking…
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been car…
Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the…
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built …
Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
Telstar is a series of communications satellites. The first two, Telstar 1 and Telstar 2, were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket on…
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the…
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jeffrey Douglas Dunham is an American ventriloquist, stand-up comedian and actor who has also appeared on numerous television shows, including Late Show with David Letterman, Comed…
Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comedian
Sanjaasürengiin Zorig was a Mongolian politician who played a prominent role in leading the country's 1990 democratic revolution. His supporters called him the "Golden Swallow of D…
Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, Mongolian Politician, (died 1998)
Danièle Sauvageau is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former coach. Sauvageau was the head coach of the Canadian national women's hockey team that won the gold medal in ice hock…
Danièle Sauvageau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
John Hannah is a Scottish actor and narrator. He came to prominence in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Suppor…
John Hannah, Scottish actor and producer
The Trans-Canada Highway is a transcontinental highway system within the country of Canada. The system traverses all ten provinces of Canada, and the main route travels 7,821 kilom…
The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.