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The table of years in literature is a tabular display of all years in literature for overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 2000s · 1900s · 1800s · 1700s · 1600s · 1500s · 1400s · Other
1960 in literature – William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; Dr. Seuss' One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and Green Eggs and Ham; Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls; John Updike's Rabbit, Run; Agatha Christie's The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding.
February–October – Astounding magazine is renamed Analog. Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States. March 22 – Joan Henry's play Look on Tempests is premièred at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, as the first play dealing openly with homosexuality to be passed for performance by the Lord Chamberlain in Britain.
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Music of the United Kingdom developed in the 1960s into one of the leading forms of popular music in the modern world. By the early 1960s the British had developed a viable national music industry and began to produce adapted forms of American music in Beat music and British blues which would be re-exported to America by bands such as the Beatles, the Animals and the Rolling Stones.
This late 20th century movement is to be distinguished from the late 18th century movement known as Romanticism. In January 2023, the Romantic Revival Orchestra was formed by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire composition student, Wiktor Wysocki, in an effort to bring new orchestral and chamber music stemming from the romantic tradition to the public.
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.