1960
- Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
- Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
- First Televised Presidential Debates
- Lasers Invented
1961
- Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Berlin Wall Built
- Peace Corps Founded
- Soviets Launch First Man in Space
1962
- Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
- Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
- Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring
1963
- Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique
- JFK Assassinated
- Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
1964
- Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
- Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
- Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
- Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
- Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued
1965
- Japan's Bullet Train Opens
- Los Angeles Riots
- Malcolm X Assassinated
- New York City Great Blackout
- U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
1966
- Black Panther Party Established
- Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
- Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
- Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
1967
- Australian Prime Minister Disappears
- Che Guevara Killed
- First Heart Transplant
- First Super Bowl
- Six-Day War in the Middle East
- Stalin's Daughter Defects
- Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
1968
- Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
- My Lai Massacre
- Prague Spring
- Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
- Tet Offensive
1969
- ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
- Charles Manson and "Family" Arrested
- Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
- Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
- Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
- Sesame Street First Airs
- Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO
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