Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Blind Faith were an English rock supergroup that consisted of Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. They followed the success of each of the member's former ban…
In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debut
The Stonewall Inn is a gay bar and recreational tavern at 53 Christopher Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It was the site of the 19…
In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstra
A zebra crossing or a marked crosswalk is a pedestrian crossing marked with white stripes. Normally, pedestrians are afforded precedence over vehicular traffic, although the signif…
At a zebra crossing (pictured) on Abbey Road in London, Iain Macmillan took the photograph that was used for the cover…
A zebra crossing or a marked crosswalk is a pedestrian crossing marked with white stripes. Normally, pedestrians are afforded precedence over vehicular traffic, although the signif…
At a zebra crossing in London (pictured), photographer Iain Macmillan took the photo that was used for the cover of…
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was an English musician and one of the founders of the Rolling Stones. Initially a slide guitarist, he went on to play electric guitar, sing backing vocals…
Two days after the death of their founder Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones performed at a free festival in Hyde Park,…
Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, and the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. The mission was crewed by Commander Neil Armstro…
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the…
The Manson Family was a commune, gang and cult led by criminal Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The description of the group as a “Fa…
Members of the Manson Family invaded a house and murdered American actress Sharon Tate (pictured) and four guests in…
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: Riots erupted in the neighbourhood of Bogside in Derry, and spread across much of Northern Ireland.
The 1969 Isle of Wight Festival was held on 29–31 August 1969 at Wootton Creek, on the Isle of Wight, England. The festival attracted an audience of approximately 150,000 to see ac…
On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob…
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by Libyan rebe…
Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) led a coup d'état to overthrow King Idris of Libya.
On September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating a regularly scheduled flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to St. Louis, Missouri, with stops …
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland,…
The Weather Underground was an American Marxist militant organization active from 1969 until 1977. Originally known as the Weathermen, or simply Weatherman, the group originated as…
Demonstrations organized by the Weather Underground known as the Days of Rage began in Chicago, aimed at ending U.S.…
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, Unit…
Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of…
H-dagurinn or Hægri dagurinn on 26 May 1968 was the day that Iceland changed from left hand traffic to right hand traffic. The change itself occurred formally at 6:00 am.
H-dagurinn in Iceland: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight
On 28 May 1968, Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892, a scheduled international passenger flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam with stopovers in Singapore, Bangkok, Bombay, Karachi, Ca…
Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 crashes near Nala Sopara in India, killing 30
Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney g…
Presidential candidate Robert F
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's …
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Lloyd John Old was an American medical researcher, and one of the founders of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infancy…
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Lloyd John Old was an American medical researcher, and one of the founders of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infancy…
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Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatica…
Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God
The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represen…
Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) was an organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Dodge Main assembly plant in Detroit,…
The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
Hassanal Bolkiah Muiz'zaddin Wad'daulah has reigned as the sultan of Brunei since 1967, and has also served as the prime minister of Brunei since its independence from British rule…
The coronation of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei, is held.
Operation OAU was a battle between Nigerian 3 Marine Commando Division (3MCDO) and Biafran 12 Division in modern day south-eastern Nigeria. Operation OAU was an intermittent battle…
Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War.