1960-1969 Timeline

By Mario&Peach

  • 1960

    • Invention of lasers
    • Birth Control Pill allowed by the FDA
    • Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa
    • Chile hit by most powerful earthquake recorded

  • Important events in 1961

    • Construction of Berlin Wall completed
    • Peace Corps founded
    • First man in space launched by Soviet Union
    • Largest nuclear weapon ever exploded, Tsar Bomba

  • Important events in 1962

    • Cuban missile crisis
    • First James Bond movie
    • First Wal-Mart opens
    • First person killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall

  • Important events in 1963

    • First Dr.Who episodes air
    • First woman in space
    • Assassination of John F. Kennedy
    • Martin Luther King Jr. makes his “I have a dream” speech

  • Important events in 1964

    • Beatles becomes popular in the U.S.
    • Civil Rights Act passed in U.S.
    • Japan’s first bullet train line opens
    • Nelson Mandela sentenced to prison
    • Italy asks for assistance to support the Leaning Tower of Pisa

  • Important vents in 1965

    • Los Angeles riot
    • Appearance of miniskirts
    • New York City blackout
    • U.S. sends troops to Vietnam

  • Important events in 1966

    • Black Panther Party established
    • First Kwanzaa celebrated
    • Cultural revolution launched by Mao Zedong
    • Star Trek T.V. series airs
    • National Organisation for Women (NOW) founded

  • Important events in 1967

    • First heart transplant
    • First super bowl
    • Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American U.S. supreme court justice

  • Important events in 1968

    • Japan 300 million yen robbery
    • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
    • Nerve gas leak kills 6,000 sheeps

  • Important events in 1969

    • Precursor of the Internet, ARPANET, created
    • First men to land on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
    • Sesame Street airs