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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, and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western countries.
1960 (MCMLX) 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.
On this day/Today. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon. 1890 – The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage. 1928 – The iron lung (example ...
Find out how dump trucks, flamethrowers and Boy Scouts saved the day — and learn about a few more surprising facts from John F. Kennedy’s swearing in.
Updated August 25, 2024 at 11:22 AM. The Beatles went viral before there was viral. In 1964, after playing to a staggering 45% of American households on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February, the ...
Aug. 28—As Martin Luther King Jr. addressed perhaps 250,000 people spread out before the steps of the Lincoln Monument 60 years ago today, he began with that most American of topics: money. A ...
1,000–6,000 [ 5 ] The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) on 22 May 1960 was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Most studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale, [ 1 ] while some studies have placed the magnitude lower ...
That undisputed classic was covered by numerous artists, such as the Everly Brothers and Rodney Crowell, and it sounds as raw and timeless today as it did 60 years ago. Amazon.com 9.