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1960 was a leap year ... It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused ...
USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) steams under Golden Gate Bridge, 16 November 1960. November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected president.
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 ...
Events from the year 1960 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents. Monarch – Elizabeth II; Prime Minister – Harold Macmillan (Conservative) Events.
The 1960 presidential election changed everything. It was the first to feature televised debates between the two major-party candidates. It was the first where the candidates were born in the 20th ...
Midnight, January 1, 1960, is the point from which dates are measured under SAS System, Stata and R computer programming software. Born: James O'Barr, American comics artist, graphic artist, and writer, best known as the creator of the comic book series The Crow; in Detroit [5] Died:
New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched later in the 1960s. 1964 – Economic Opportunity Act; 1964 – Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing major forms of legalized discrimination against blacks and women, and ended legalized racial segregation in the United States
The following is a timeline of 1960s counterculture. Influential events and milestones years before and after the 1960s are included for context relevant to the subject period of the early 1960s through the mid-1970s.