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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 ...
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
These records would stand unbeaten for over 60 years. August 17 – The trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow. August 18 – United States president Dwight Eisenhower is briefed on the Congo crisis at a meeting with the U.S. National Security Council, and asks whether the U.S. "can't get rid of this guy" (Patrice Lumumba). [2]
Find out how dump trucks, flamethrowers and Boy Scouts saved the day — and learn about a few more surprising facts from John F. Kennedy’s swearing in.
Tuck Langland poses Thursday, June 13, 2024, with the photo and maquette he used to create the sculpture of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh that is in downtown ...
It has been 60 years since Kennedy fell to an assassin’s bullets on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Like most Americans, Oklahomans who are old enough to remember that day do so like it was yesterday.
1970 – The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria surrendered to the federal government less than three years after declaring independence, ending the Nigerian Civil War. 2018 – In the " Minneapolis Miracle ", American football player Stefon Diggs caught a 61-yard (56 m) touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota Vikings ...
Aug. 28—As Martin Luther King Jr. addressed perhaps 250,000 people spread out before the steps of the Lincoln Monument 60 years ago today, he began with that most American of topics: money. A ...