Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Polly Samson is an English novelist, lyricist and journalist. She is married to the musician David Gilmour and has written lyrics for many of his songs, including albums with his b…
Polly Samson, English novelist, lyricist and journalist
Maia Emilia Ninel Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress. Internationally, she is best known for portraying the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Chr…
Maia Morgenstern, Romanian actress
Michael Grandage CBE is a British theatre director and producer. He is currently artistic director of the Michael Grandage Company. From 2002 to 2012 he was artistic director of th…
Michael Grandage, English director and producer
James Howard Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student a…
James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923 was a chartered military transport flight that ditched in the North Atlantic Ocean on September 23, 1962. The Lockheed Constellation L-1049H was transp…
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation registered as N6923C, ditches into the Atlantic…
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Spanning over 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), it i…
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the…
The North Yemen civil war, also known in Yemen as the 26 September Revolution, was a civil war fought in North Yemen from 1962 to 1970 between partisans of the Mutawakkilite Kingdo…
The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a…
James Warren White is an English professional snooker player who has won ten ranking events. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his swift and attacking style of play, White has r…
Jimmy White, English snooker player
David Gahan is an English singer best known as the co-founder and lead singer of electronic music band Depeche Mode since their formation in 1980. Noted for his commanding stage pr…
Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter
Robert Randall Thompson is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball (1986–1996) with the San Francisco Giants…
Robby Thompson, American baseball player and coach
Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT…
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S.…
James Howard Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student a…
James Meredith becomes the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
The James Bond franchise focuses on the character of James Bond, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels a…
The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most in…
The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.
Emilio Estevez is an American actor and filmmaker. The son of actor Martin Sheen and the older brother of Charlie Sheen, he made his film debut with an uncredited role in Badlands …
Emilio Estevez, American actor
Brett W. Gurewitz, nicknamed Mr. Brett, is an American musician and record producer, best known as the co-founder and guitarist of the punk band Bad Religion. He is also the owner …
Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist and songwriter
Bruce Anthony Johannesson, known professionally as C.C. DeVille, is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Poison. The band has sold over 65 millio…
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The Spiegel affair of 1962 was a political scandal in West Germany. It stemmed from the publication of an article in Der Spiegel, West Germany's weekly political magazine, about th…
Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, leading to accusations of treason.
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic R…
Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly called the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the twenty-first and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Chur…
The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
The Columbus Day storm of 1962 was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962. Typh…
The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S.…
The Columbus Day storm of 1962 was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962. Typh…
The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six…
Daniel Sallis Huston is a British-American actor, director, and screenwriter. A member of the Huston family of filmmakers, he is the son of director John Huston and half-brother of…
Danny Huston, Italian-American actor and director