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The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
Each month consisted of thirty days and the common year of twenty months, as twenty was the 'perfect' number of the Muisca, representing the total of extremeties; fingers and toes. The rural year usually contained twelve months, but one leap month was added. This month (Spanish: mes sordo; "deaf month") represented a month of rest. The holy ...
1959–60 Copa México started on March 6, and concluded on April 17, 1960, with the final held at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City, in which Necaxa defeated Tampico Madero 4–1. 1959–60 Mexican Primera División season was won by C.D. Guadalajara. Baseball: The Tigres won the Mexican baseball league championship.
Two decades later, on Aug. 17, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a law that expanded it to a 30-day period, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 annually, the U.S. Census Bureau said.
The 60s decade ran from January 1, AD 60, to December 31, AD 69. In the Roman Empire, the early part of the decade saw the beginning of the Boudican Revolt in Britannia , where several tribes (chiefly the Iceni ), led by Boudica , rebelled against the Roman occupation.
month–month: the 1940 peak period was May–July; the peak period was May–July 1940; (but the peak period was May 1940 – July 1940 uses a spaced en dash; see below) In certain cases where at least one item on either side of the en dash contains a space, then a spaced en dash ( {{ snd }} ) is used.
In Spanish, abbreviations of month names are usually three letters long, to avoid confusion between marzo (March) and mayo (May), and between junio (June) and julio (July). In Spain, the week runs from Monday to Sunday. The Spanish language also has an established convention for days of the week using one letter.
The holiday begins on the evening of Oct. 31 and continues through Nov. 2. These dates coincide with the Catholic holidays of All Saints' Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls' Day (Nov. 2).