Explore 1640 historical events from 1960–1969.
Johannes Aadolfinpoika Mustonen was a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland an…
Janne Mustonen, Finnish politician (born 1901)
Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian art. He was founding member o…
Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (born 1881)
Agnes Forbes Blackadder Savill was a Scottish medical expert and doctor, sometimes regarded as a polymath. Blackadder became the first female graduate of the University of St Andre…
Agnes Forbes Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (born 1875)
Vladimir Maček was a politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) following the 1928 assassination of Stjepan Radić, Maček had been a le…
Vladko Maček, Croatian lawyer and politician (born 1879)
Nandor Fodor was a British and American parapsychologist, psychoanalyst, author and journalist of Hungarian origin.
Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (born 1895)
Rudy Lewis was an American rhythm and blues singer known for his work with the Drifters. In 1988, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Rudy Lewis, American singer (born 1936)
James Franck was a German–American atomic physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electro…
James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
Ruben Oskar Auervaara was a notorious Finnish conman and thief. He became famous by cheating money from women he met through newspaper announcements, by pretending to intend to mar…
Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish fraudster (born 1906)
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. …
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)
Terrance Gilbert Dillon was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). Dillon played with the Minnesota Vikings during the 1963 NFL season. He had also been drafted in…
Terry Dillon, American football player (born 1941)
Oba Sir Isaac Babalola Akinyele, KBE was the first educated Olubadan of Ibadan, and the second Christian to ascend the throne.
Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (born 1882)
Edward Julius Sachs Jr. was an American racing driver in the United States Auto Club.
Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (born 1927)
Leo Szilard was a Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. He conceived the…
Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist and engineer (born 1898)
Mehmet Kâzım Orbay was a Turkish general and Speaker of the house. He served as the 3rd Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.
Kâzım Orbay, Turkish general and politician, 9th Turkish Speaker of the Parliament (born 1887)
Frans Eemil Sillanpää was a Finnish writer. In 1939, he became the first Finnish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his deep understanding of his country's pe…
Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of th…
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1879)
Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes.
Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (born 1890)
The Fun Lounge police raid was a 1964 police raid that targeted Louie's Fun Lounge, a gay bar near Chicago, Illinois, United States. The raid led to the arrest of over 100 individu…
109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago
Tanganyika was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on 9…
Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president
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 attributed to Viet Cong commandos caused the escort carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of S
Ngô Đình Cẩn was the younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and an important member of the Diệm government. Diệm put Cẩn in charge of cent…
Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Ngu
The Organisation of African Unity was an African intergovernmental organisation established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 33 signatory governments. Some of the key …
The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Secretary of State for War, commonly called the War Secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom. The position existed from 1794 to 1801 and agai…
The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair"
Vostok 6 was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space