Explore 3652 historical events from 1960–1969.
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a …
The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo or less often Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is…
Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the
The Surveyor program was a NASA program that, from June 1966 through January 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the…
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U
Diego Dominguez is a former rugby union fly-half. After playing a couple of matches for Argentina, he spent the vast majority of his career with the Italy national rugby union team…
Diego Domínguez, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
Femke Halsema is a Dutch politician and filmmaker serving as Mayor of Amsterdam since 2018. She is the first woman to hold the position on a non-interim basis. She was previously a…
Femke Halsema, Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician
Darren Lee Holmes is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Holmes played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1990 to 2003 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers…
Darren Holmes, American baseball player and coach
Peter Edward McIntyre is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches in the 1990s.
Peter McIntyre, Australian cricketer
Yoshihiro Togashi is a Japanese manga artist. He began drawing manga at an early age and was recognized for his talent by the publishing company Shueisha while attending college. …
Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese illustrator
The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 5, 1966, intending to make a sol…
March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the "Century Series" of fighter aircraft for the…
An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no
Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Ka…
Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v
John Patrick Daly is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour and PGA Tour Champions. Daly is known primarily for his driving distance off the tee, his non-country-club appe…
John Daly, American golfer
Todd Anthony Shaw, known professionally as Too Short, is an American rapper. A pioneer of West Coast hip-hop, Shaw was among the first acts to receive recognition in the genre duri…
Too Short, American rapper, producer and actor
Christian Tetzlaff is a German violinist who has performed internationally, with a focus on chamber music.
Christian Tetzlaff, German violinist
Jeff Randall Brown is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from the mid-1980s to late 1990s. He was selected to play …
Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
David Lee Meggett is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. A return specialist for most of his care…
Dave Meggett, American football player and coach
Buddhism in Vietnam, as practiced by the Vietnamese people, is a form of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism. It is the second largest religion in Vietnam. According to the Vietnamese gov…
Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyen Cao Ky crushed the Budd
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American progressive-left feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organiz…
The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded
Color television or colour television is a television transmission technology that also includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on …
The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, formerly the Second Artillery Corps, is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of China. The PLARF is the 4th …
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (The known as the 2nd Artillery Corps) is founded.
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 …
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect…
Olaf Thon is a German former professional football player and coach.
Olaf Thon, German footballer and manager
Belinda Caroline Stronach is a Canadian businesswoman and former politician. She served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2004 to 2008, initially as a Conservative and later as a…
Belinda Stronach, Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, and politician