Explore 5816 historical events from 1960–1969.
Romano Guardini was an Italian, naturalized German Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian.
Romano Guardini, Italian-German Catholic priest, author, and academic (born 1885)
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New Yor…
Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (born 1887)
Phyllis Nicolson was a British mathematician and physicist best known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson method together with John Crank.
Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (born 1917)
Selim Rauf Sarper was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1960 and 1962.
Selim Sarper, Turkish educator and politician, 13th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1899)
Beatrice Benaderet was an American actress and comedienne. Born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, she began performing in Bay Area theatre and radio before embarking on…
Bea Benaderet, American actress and voice artist (born 1906)
Virginia Lee Burton, also known by her married name Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, in…
Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
Ellis Raymond "Old Folks" Kinder was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago White Sox between 1946…
Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (born 1914)
Bud Flanagan was a British music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian, and later a television and film actor. He was best known as being one half of the comedy and music ac…
Bud Flanagan, English actor and screenwriter (born 1896)
Elise "Lise" Meitner was an Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission.
Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (born 1878)
Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of…
Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (born 1899)
Conrad Michael Richter was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950), the last s…
Conrad Richter, American journalist and novelist (born 1890)
Rose Wilder Lane was an American writer and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along with two other female writers, Ayn Rand and Isabel Paterson, Lane was one of the…
Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (born 1886)
John Enoch Powell was a British politician, scholar and writer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South West for the Conservative Party from 1950 to February 1974 …
Enoch Powell, a British Conservative member of Parliament, made a controversial speech in opposition to immigration and
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Between hi…
Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada, succeeding Lester B
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab So…
Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in…
South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to London, England. The Boeing 707-300C operating the flight, which was only six weeks old,…
South African Airways Flight 228 crashed shortly after take-off from Windhoek in South West Africa, resulting in 123 dea
Broadway theatre, or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater Di…
The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming a
Bucks County Community College (Bucks) is a public community college in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1964, Bucks has three campuses and online courses: a main campus in N…
About 200 students at Bucks County Community College held a protest after the college canceled a planned speech by gay r
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: The 1st Australian Task Force began the defence of Fire Support Base Coral in the largest unit-level action
Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while r…
American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York
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…
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The Royal New Zealand Navy is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of eight ships. The Navy had its origins in the Naval Defence Act 1913…
The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy
The 1968 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held Chicago, Illinois, United States, on July 20, 1968. Most of the event was held at Soldier Field, while some of the smaller in…
The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at…
The Glenville shootout was a gun battle that occurred on the night of July 23–24, 1968, in the Glenville section of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. Gunfire was exchanged for…
A shootout between police and a Black power group began in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking three days of rioting.