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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 ...
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
These records would stand unbeaten for over 60 years. August 17 – The trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow. August 18 – United States president Dwight Eisenhower is briefed on the Congo crisis at a meeting with the U.S. National Security Council, and asks whether the U.S. "can't get rid of this guy" (Patrice Lumumba). [2]
SOUTH BEND — Sixty years later, the photographer's identity remains unknown. But on June 21, 1964, someone captured what became an iconic moment in the University of Notre Dame's history and ...
It has been 60 years since Kennedy fell to an assassin’s bullets on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Like most Americans, Oklahomans who are old enough to remember that day do so like it was yesterday.
On Friday, after more than 60 years, the state of South Carolina cleared those records of the seven men who were arrested for participating in the sit-in protests over those two days in March 1960 ...
Demographers typically do not attempt to estimate most specific years in antiquity, instead giving approximate numbers for round years such as AD 1 or AD 200. However, attempts at reconstructing the world population in more specific years have been made, with Manning (2008) tentatively estimating the world population in AD 60 as 249 million.
TUSCARAWAS COUNTY ‒ It has been 60 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. For many people who were alive at the time, the memories remain ...