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By bradf

  • 1960

    ⁃ 21 March: 69 black protestors killed in Sharpeville massacre by South African police ⁃ 26 September: First televised debate between Nixon and Kennedy ⁃ 8 November: JFK elected in national presidency vote, youngest elected president in history
  • Period: to

    The 1960’s

  • 1961

    ⁃ 15 March: South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth ⁃ 17 April: CIA-funded invasion of the Bay of the Pigs fails ⁃ 13 August: Berlin Wall construction begins

  • 1962

    ⁃ 3 July: Algerian independence recognised by France ⁃ 10 July: Telestar launch successful, live TV pictures emitted from US to France ⁃ 5 August: Nelson Mandela arrested ⁃ 14 October: Cuban missile crisis commences

  • 1963

    ⁃ 19 February: ‘The Feminine Mystique’ by Betty Friedan makes milestone in US Women’s Movement
    ⁃ 8 August: Great Train Robbery in England
    ⁃ 28 August: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, significant moment in US Civil Rights
    ⁃ 22 November: JFK’s assassination

  • 1964

    ⁃ 19 June: US Senate passes bill for Civil Rights ⁃ 5 August: US Air Force bombs North Vietnam by President Johnson’s orders ⁃ 15 October: Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning towards racial equality ⁃ 15 October: Wilson Labour Party elected to government in UK

  • 1965

    ⁃ 24 January: Sir Winston Churchill’s death
    ⁃ 8 July: Great Train Robber (Ronald Biggs) escapes from London’s Wandsworth Prison
    ⁃ 28 July: Johnson increases America’s troops from 75,000 to 125,000
    ⁃ 11 August: Race Riots in Watts, LA, 36 people killed
    ⁃ 11 November: Ian Smith makes independence from Britain declaration, has economic consequences

  • 1966

    ⁃ 31 March: Wilson’s Labour Party returns to election with an increase in votes and majority ⁃ 15 October: Huey Newton and Bobby Seale form ‘Black Panther Party’ in US

  • 1967

    ⁃ 24 April: Muhammad Ali is stripped of world heavyweight boxing title for refusal to join US Army ⁃ 5 June: Israel starts ‘6 Day War’ by attacking Egypt ⁃ 6 July: Civil War commences in Nigeria ⁃ 2 December: Full colour TV service launched on Britain’s BBC. ⁃ 5 December: World’s first heart transplant conducted in Capetown by Dr. Christian Bernard

  • 1968

    ⁃ 16 March: ‘My Lai’ massacre in Vietnam ⁃ 4 April: Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ⁃ May: Student protests and strike commence in France ⁃ 6 June: RFK’s assassination ⁃ 5 November: President Nixon elected

  • 1969

    ⁃ 2 Jan: Rupert Murdoch purchases Britain’s largest-selling ‘News of the World’
    ⁃ 20 April: British troops enter Northern Ireland
    ⁃ 28 June: Stonewall riots in NY mark beginning of Gay Rights movement
    ⁃ 21 July: Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
    ⁃ 21 October: Willy Brand becomes chancellor of West Germany
    ⁃ 6 December: Rolling Stones Altament violence ends the 1960s