Explore 3653 historical events from 1960–1969.
Sylveanus Augustus "Vean" Gregg was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, Gregg played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Naps, Boston Red Sox, Philade…
Vean Gregg, American baseball player (born 1885)
James Travis Reeves was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. One of the earliest pioneers and practitioners of the Nashville sound, he played a central role in the sonic d…
Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (born 1923)
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)
Juho Vihtori Nätti, known as "Nätti-Jussi" was a Finnish forest laborer. The stories told by Nätti made him a legendary figure, particularly in Lapland. Nätti was born to a six-mem…
Nätti-Jussi, Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (born 1890)
Moa Martinson was one of Sweden's most noted authors of proletarian literature. Her ambition was to change society with her authorship and to portray the conditions of the working …
Moa Martinson, Swedish author (born 1890)
Arthur Howey Ross was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the…
Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1886)
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned over 50 years. His theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of S…
Cedric Hardwicke, English actor and director (born 1893)
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Flem…
Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (born 1908)
John Joseph Burnette was an American singer and songwriter of rockabilly and pop music. In 1952, Johnny, his brother Dorsey Burnette, and their mutual friend Paul Burlison, formed …
Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (born 1934)
Hildegard Johanna Maria Trabant was an East German woman who became the fiftieth known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Trabant was shot and killed by East German border guards du…
Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (born 1927)
Edmond John "Ned" Hogan was an Australian politician who was the 30th Premier of Victoria. He was born in Wallace, Victoria, where his Irish-born parents were small farmers. After …
Edmond Hogan, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Victoria (born 1883)
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was an American vaudevillian, singer, actress, and comedian who became famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns, her strai…
Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (born 1895)
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
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman who led the Italian Communist Party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-c…
Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (born 1893)
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 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 was signed into law, outlawing segregation in schools, at the workplace, and other facilities…
Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy from human input, such as remote control, …
The space probe Ranger 7 captured thousands of close-up photographs of the Moon over its final minutes of flight and…
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 National Security Agency falsely claimed that a U.S. Navy destroyer was attacked a second time by…
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the country's establishment in 1949 until the Peaceful Revolutio…
East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
The Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated St…
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals…
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"