1960 timeline

First Olympics

Jan 1, 1960

The Olympic Games were held in Rome

American U2

May 1, 1960

American "U2" spy plane shot down over the USSR.

Nobel Prize

Oct 20, 1960

Immunologist Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet shares Nobel Prize for Medicine with Briton Peter Medawar

Crown of Thorns

Dec 16, 1960

Crown-of-thorns starfish begins ravaging the Great Barrier Reef

Selling wheat

Feb 6, 1961

Australia to sell wheat to Communist China

first man into space

May 5, 1961

The soviets have sent the first man into space and the Americans need a man in space, too. The event came on May 5, 1961. Alan Shepard was sent to space in the "Freedom 7".

Wimbledon

Jul 8, 1961

Rod Laver wins Men's Singles tennis final

beach fashion

Dec 12, 1961

Woman fined for being "unsuitably dressed" wearing a bikini at Bondi Beach

first man to orbit earth

Feb 20, 1962

John Glenn became the first man to orbit the earth

AMP building

Feb 23, 1962

Australia tallest building opens, the 25-storey AMP building

records

Feb 7, 1963

South Australia: Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre

Secretary of the Soviet Embassy expelled

Feb 7, 1963

First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, Ivan Skripov, is expelled as a spy

records

Mar 9, 1963

Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre

i have a dream

Aug 28, 1963

Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream" on August 28, 1963. More than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators came to Washington DC to demand equal rights for Black and Whites.

President Kennedy Assassinated

Nov 22, 1963

President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was never sent to trial. While being moved by police to a different jail, a man named Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Who killed President Kennedy nobody knows for sure.

ART

Nov 21, 1969

Artist Norman Lindsay dies at 90.