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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (WW Norton, 2019), scholarly history. excerpt; Olson, James S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1970s (1999) excerpt; Richards, Marlee. America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right ...
September 24 – American television series The Odd Couple premieres on ABC. September 26 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County , burning 175,425 acres (710 km 2 ). September 27 – Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy , Yugoslavia , Spain , the United Kingdom and Ireland .
October 19 – Kerry Sanders, news correspondent; October 20 – Peter Fitzgerald, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1999 to 2011; October 21 – Paul Rugg, voice actor and producer; October 24 Dennis Anderson, monster truck driver; BD Wong, actor [21] October 28 Landon Curt Noll, American astronomer, cryptographer and mathematician
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.
The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second time in history. Capitol Reef National Park is established. December 21 – In Cleveland Ohio, an African-American man named Tyrone Howard, the father of actor Terrence Howard, stabs and kills a White man named Jack Fitzpatrick during a dispute while waiting in line to meet Santa with their respective ...
The fabled music festival, seen as one of the seminal cultural events of the 1960s, took place 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) away in Bethel, New York, an even smaller village than Woodstock. An ...
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 ...
Rather, the failures by the American government in handling the crises of the 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the events in 2023—especially in the Middle East.