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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.
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; See also: Other events of 1960 History of France • Timeline • Years: Events from the year 1960 in France. Incumbents. President: ...
In 1960, France became the fourth state to acquire a nuclear arsenal, detonating an atomic bomb in the Algerian desert (a secret clause of the 1962 Évian Accords with the Algerian National Liberation Front stated that "Algeria concede... to France the use of certain air bases, terrains, sites and military installations which are necessary to ...
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 ...
By the mid-1960s, the majority of American workers enjoyed the highest wage levels in the world, [51] and by the late-1960s, the great majority of Americans were richer than people in other countries, except Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada. Educational outlays were also greater than in other countries while a higher proportion of young people ...
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.
30 June – France formally leaves the military structure of NATO. 26 August – Riots occur in French Somaliland. 30 August – France offers independence to French Somaliland. 11 October – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research. 26 October – NATO moves its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; See also: History of the United States (1945–1964) ... Timeline of United States history (1950–1969) ... Events from the year 1950 in the ...