1960's Timeline 1960-1969

By hussein.elachi

  • Bank of France issues new franc, worth 100 times the value of existing francs

  • Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars

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    !960's Events

  • John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years

  • Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency

  • Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

  • Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die

  • Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England

  • 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)

  • 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth

  • Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers

  • Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig

  • US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal

  • Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal

  • South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle

  • Racial riot at University of Georgia

  • Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain

  • Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration

  • Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records

  • Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

  • Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

  • United States Navy SEALs established.

  • Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro

  • New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.

  • US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

  • Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic scho

  • 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara

  • US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

  • Failed assassination on president De Gaulle

  • Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria

  • British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler

  • British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow

  • James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi

  • World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin

  • Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit

  • Greek & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus

  • Herbert Hoover, 31st president of US (1929-33), dies in NY at 90

  • Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters

  • Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox

  • John Lennon passes his driving test

  • USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon

  • John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

  • Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

  • AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner

  • "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix

  • Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

  • Muhammad Ali is order by selective service to be inducted

  • JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial

  • Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague

  • Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms

  • Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta

  • Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars

  • Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight

  • Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ

  • US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970