Explore 1640 historical events from 1960–1969.
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 sinks the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked at Saigon
In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent, is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain peak or the top of a particular climbing route. Early 20th-century…
First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 was a Fairchild F27A Friendship airliner that crashed on May 7, 1964, near San Ramon, California, a suburb in the East Bay, east of Oakland. The crash …
Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44
The discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation constitutes a major development in modern physical cosmology. In 1964, American physicist Arno Allan Penzias and radio-astron…
Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias
Andrew Ivan Bell is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the synth-pop duo Erasure. The band achieved mainstream success and are popular withi…
Andy Bell, English singer-songwriter
Stephen Michael Ames is a professional golfer formerly of the PGA Tour, who now plays on the PGA Tour Champions. The biggest win of his career was at The Players Championship in 20…
Stephen Ames, Trinidadian golfer
Noriyuki Iwadare is a Japanese video game composer. Some of his work include the Langrisser, Lunar, Grandia, and Ace Attorney series.
Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
Ajay Kumar Kakkar, Baron Kakkar is an emeritus professor of surgery at University College London and a life peer.
Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, English surgeon and academic
Barry Louis Larkin is an American former professional baseball shortstop. As a player he spent his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Cincinnati Reds from 1…
Barry Larkin, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
Laura "Luann" Bambrough, known professionally as L'Wren Scott, was an American model, fashion designer, and stylist.
L'Wren Scott, American model and fashion designer (died 2014)
The Palestine Liberation Organization is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people in the occu…
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded, with Yasser Arafat elected as its first leader
The Arab League, officially the League of Arab States, is a regional organization in the Arab world. The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945, initially with seven memb…
The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine L
Before dawn on January 30, 1964, General Nguyễn Khánh ousted the military junta led by General Dương Văn Minh from the leadership of South Vietnam without firing a shot. It came le…
Having deposed them in a January coup South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh had rival Generals Trần Văn Đôn and Lê Văn Ki
A filibuster is a parliamentary procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely prevent a decision. I…
United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage
The Cologne school massacre was a mass murder that occurred at the Catholic elementary school located in the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, o…
World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children an
Federico Castelluccio is an Italian-born American actor. He is best known for his role as Furio Giunta on the HBO series The Sopranos.
Federico Castelluccio, Italian-American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
Lúðvík Bergvinsson is an Icelandic lawyer, politician and former member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, he represented the Southern constituency from Ap…
Lúðvík Bergvinsson, Icelandic politician
Ian Andrew Healy is an Australian former international cricketer who played for Queensland domestically. A wicketkeeper and right-hand middle-order batsman, he first played interna…
Ian Healy, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
Lorenzo Jules Staelens is a Belgian professional football manager and former player. He most recently coached Dutch club HSV Hoek.
Lorenzo Staelens, Belgian footballer and manager
Abhishek Chatterjee was an Indian actor who was known for his work in Bengali cinema. He made his big screen debut alongside veterans such as Sandhya Roy, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tap…
Abhishek Chatterjee, Indian actor (died 2022)
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authorita…
Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa
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 of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate
The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor II…
A Curtiss C-46 Commando crashes in the Shengang District of Taiwan, killing 57 people
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Scien…
Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian and academic