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1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
February 13 – Gary Patterson, American football coach; February 14 – Jim Kelly, American football player; February 18 – Tony Anselmo, animator and voice actor [9] February 19 – John Paul Jr., racing driver (d. 2020) February 20 – Wendee Lee, voice actress; February 21 – Henry G. Brinton, writer and minister
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 ...
The history of the United States from 1964 to 1980 includes the climax and end of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
Bob Dylan goes electric, July 1965. Credit - Alice Ochs—Getty Images. T oward the end of A Complete Unknown, the new film chronicling Bob Dylan’s early career, Pete Seeger and the young Dylan ...
That decade was a time of great change all around York County.
CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties; Civil rights movement; Civil rights movements; Committee on Appeal for Human Rights; List of covers of Time magazine (1960s) Cuban Missile Crisis; Culinary Revolution