Explore 3652 historical events from 1960–1969.
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: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon
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 …
Cold War: U
The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, was a European treaty which unified the executive institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), European At…
Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal…
The Aden Emergency, also known as the 14 October Revolution or the Aden Insurgency, was an armed rebellion led mainly by the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Front for the L…
The Aden Emergency: The Battle of the Crater in which the British Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retake the Crater…
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria-Biafra War, or Biafra War, was an armed conflict fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist st…
Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
Phil Chang is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor.
Phil Chang, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
Philipp Bedros Kirkorov is a Bulgarian-born Russian singer. He began his career in 1985 after participating in the Soviet musical TV show "Wider Circle". Since 2000, he has maintai…
Philipp Kirkorov, Bulgarian-born Russian singer, composer and actor
Durron Maurice Butler, known as Turbo B, is an American rapper and beatboxer. He was once the frontman of the German electronic music group Snap!
Turbo B, American rapper
Samuel Timothy McGraw is an American country singer and actor. He has released 17 studio albums. 10 of those albums have reached number one on the Top Country Albums charts, with h…
Tim McGraw, American singer-songwriter and actor
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 600 smaller islands. It is th…
New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.
The 1967 Newark riots involved violent, armed conflict in the streets of Newark, New Jersey. Taking place over a four-day period, the Newark riots resulted in at least 26 deaths an…
Riots begin in Newark, New Jersey.
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 was a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 that collided with a twin-engine Cessna 310 on July 19, 1967, over Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States. Bot…
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collided over…
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967".…
Detroit Riots: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly…
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France in World War II and chaired the Provisi…
During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in…
Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough is an American talk show host who co-hosts MS NOW's weekday morning broadcast show Morning Joe alongside her husband Joe Scarborough. She …
Mika Brzezinski, American journalist and author
David Carlyle Rocastle was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the roles of a playmaker and a winger.
David Rocastle, English footballer (died 2001)
Daniel Stewart Anderson is an Australian professional rugby league coach. Anderson previously coached the New Zealand Warriors and the Parramatta Eels in the NRL and St. Helens in …
Daniel Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager
The Democratic Republic of Viet Nam was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty recognized in July 1954, after which it became commonly known as North Vietn…
Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since…
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. It is located along the G…
During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake,…
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is an intergovernmental forum of all 11 states in Southeast Asia. ASEAN primarily focuses on Southeast Asian economic development…
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and…
Night of the Grizzlies (1969) is a book by Jack Olsen which details events surrounding the night of August 13, 1967, when two young women were separately attacked and killed in Gla…
Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier…
The Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967, shortened to Marine Broadcasting Offences Act or Marine Offences Act, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that cam…
UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
Kathryn Mary Draper-Garraway is an English broadcaster and journalist. In the 1990s, Garraway was a journalist for ITV News Central and later a co-presenter of ITV News Meridian. F…
Kate Garraway, English journalist
Ana Kristina Gasteyer is an American actress, comedian and singer. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2002. She has since starre…
Ana Gasteyer, American actress and singer