Years 1960-1969

1960 February 09

Marocco, Agadir, Marocco (1960) - 15.000 deads - magnitudo 5,8

1960 May 22

Cile, Valdivia, sud - magnitudo 9.5, Si ritiene che sia il terremoto più intenso di cui abbiamo riscontri scientifici.- 90.000 deads

1960

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Willard Frank Libby, per il metodo di utilizzo del carbonio 14 per determinare l'etÓ di appartenenza nell'archeologia, nella geologia, nella geofisica ed in altre branche della scienza

1960

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar

1960

Nobel Prizes Peace: Albert John Lutuli

1960

Nobel Prizes Physics: Donald A. Glaser

1960

Nobel Prizes Literature: Saint-John Perse

1960

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics VIII: Squaw Valley, United States

1960

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XVII: Rome (Italy)

1960

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. St. Louis Hawks (4-3)

1960

Baseball World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) 4-3 New York Yankees (AL)

1960

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Neale Fraser d. R. Laver (6-4 3-6 9-7 7-5)

1960

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Maria Bueno d. S. Reynolds (8-6 6-0)

1960

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid CF (Spain)

1961

Jack Lippes develops the contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD)

1961

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) formally constituted

1961 April 12

Moscow announces putting first man in orbit around earth, Major Yuri A. Gagarin

1961 April 17

1,200 US-sponsored anti-Castro exiles invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs; the attackers are all killed or captured by Cuban forces

1961 August 13

East Germany erects the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to halt flood of refugees

1961 January 3

US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

1961 May 5

First US astronaut, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., rockets 116.5 miles up in 302-mile trip

1961 October 29

USSR detonates 50-megaton hydrogen bomb in the largest man-made explosion in history

1953-1961

Dwight Eisenhower (October 14, 1890-March 28, 1969). 34° President , Repubblican

1961-1963

John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917-Nov 22, 1963). 35° President , Democratic

1961

Nobel Prizes Physics: Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Moessbauer

1961

Nobel Prizes Literature: Ivo Andric

1961

Nobel Prizes Peace: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjoeld

1961

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Georg Von Bekesy

1961

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Melvin Calvin, per la sua ricerca sull'assimilazione del diossido di carbonio da parte delle piante

1961

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. St. Louis Hawks (4-1)

1961

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Angela Mortimer d. C. Truman (4-6 6-4 7-5)

1961

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Rod Laver d. C. McKinley (6-3 6-1 6-4)

1961

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-1 Cincinnati Reds (NL)

1961

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Benfica (Portugal)

03 July 1962

France transfers sovereignty to new republic of Algeria

1 October 1962

James H. Meredith, escorted by federal marshals, registers at University of Mississippi

11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII opens Second Vatican Council. Council holds four sessions, finally closing 8 December 1965

14 December 1962

Mariner II, the first interplanetary probe, reaches Venus

1962

William Faulkner wins Pulitzer for The Reivers. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

1962

The first transatlantic television transmission ccurs via the Telstar Satellite, making worldwide television and cable networks a reality

1962

Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago become independent

20 February 1962

Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., is first American to orbit Earth—three times in 4 hr 55 min

24 December 1962

Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners of §1961§ invasion attempt

5 August 1962

Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at age 36

August 1962 to November

Cuban missile crisis USSR to build missile bases in Cuba;Kennedy orders Cuban blockade, lifts blockade after Russians back down

1962

Iran, Qazvin - 12.500 deads - magnitudo 7,1

1962

Nobel Prizes Physics: Lev Davidovic Landau

1962

Nobel Prizes Peace: Linus Carl Pauling

1962

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

1962

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: John Cowdery Kendrew, Max Ferdinand Perutz, per i loro studi sulla struttura delle proteine globulari

1962

Nobel Prizes Literature: John Steinbeck

1962

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-3)

1962

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: Brazil d. Czechoslovakia (3-1) in Chile

1962

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Benfica (Portugal)

1962

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Karen Susman d. V. Sukova (6-4 6-4)

1962

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Rod Laver d. M. Mulligan (6-2 6-2 6-1)

1962

Baseball World Series: New York Yankees (AL) 4-3 San Francisco Giants (NL)

17 June 1963

USA Supreme Court rules no locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools

1963

Kenya achieves independence.

1963

Quasars are discovered by Marten Schmidt (US)

1963

The sedative Valium (chlordiazepoxide) is developed by Roche labs

21 April 1963

Michael E. De Bakey implants artificial heart in human for first time at Houston hospital; plastic device functions and patient lives for four days

22 January 1963

France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict

22 November 1963

President Kennedy shot and killed by sniper in Dallas, Tex. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president same day

24 November 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby, Dallas nightclub owner

28 August 1963

Civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington DC; Martin Luther King delivers 'I have a dream' speech

3 June 1963

Pope John XXIII dies. Succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.

30 August 1963

Washington-to-Moscow 'hot line' communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war

June 1963

UK's Profumo scandal

1961-1963

John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917-Nov 22, 1963). 35° President , Democratic

1963-1969

Lyndon Johnson (Aug 27, 1908-January 22, 1973). 36° President , Democratic

26 July 1963

Iugoslavia, Skopje - 1.100 deads - magnitudo 6

1963

Nobel Prizes Physics: Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen, Eugene P. Wigner

1963

Nobel Prizes Peace: International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross societies

1963

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley

1963

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Giulio Natta, Karl Ziegler, per le loro scoperte nel campo della chimica e della tecnologia dei polimeri

1963

Nobel Prizes Literature: Giorgos Seferis

1963

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-2)

1963

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AC Milan (Italy)

1963

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Margaret Smith d. B.J.Moffitt (6-3 6-4)

1963

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Chuck McKinley d. F. Stolle (9-7 6-1 6-4)

1963

Baseball World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers (NL) 4-0 New York Yankees (AL)

1 May 1964

John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz ran the first computer program written in $BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)$

11 June 1964

Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa

11 June 1964

Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment

14 March 1964

Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald

15 March 1964

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) in Montreal

17 April 1964

In the United States, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public

1964

China detonates its first atomic bomb

1964

President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy issues Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

1964

Color television makes its way into USA homes

2 July 1964

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States

24 September 1964

The Warren Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, is published

4 April 1964

The Beatles hold the top 5 positions in the Billboard Top singles in USA: $Can't Buy Me Love$, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me

October 1964

Khrushchev is deposed; Kosygin becomes premier and Brezhnev becomes first secretary of the Communist Party

28 March 1964

Alaska, Prince William Sound - 131 deads - magnitudo 9.2

1964

Nobel Prizes Literature: Jean-Paul Sartre

1964

Nobel Prizes Physics: Nikolaj Gennadievic Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Charles Hard Townes

1964

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen

1964

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, per la sua determinazione, attraverso l'utilizzo dei raggi X, delle strutture di importanti sostanze biochimiche

1964

Nobel Prizes Peace: Martin Luther King

1964

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Roy Emerson d. F. Stolle (6-4 12-10 4-6 6-3)

1964

Baseball World Series: St. Louis Cardinals (NL) 4-3 New York Yankees (AL)

1964

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Maria Bueno d. M.Smith (6-4 7-9 6-3)

1964

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics IX: Innsbruck, Austria

1964

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. SF Warriors (4-1)

1964

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: FC Internazionale Milano (Italy)

1964

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XVIII: Tokyo (Japan)

1 February 1965

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 others arrested in Selma, Ala., during demonstrations against voter-registration rules

18 March 1965

Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov performs the first spacewalk

1965

Malcolm X, black-nationalist leader, shot to death at Harlem rally

1965

Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite, is launched

1965

The first USA combat troops arrive in Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers are in Vietnam

3 June 1965

Edward White II becomes the first American to walk in space

04 February 1965

Alaska, Rat Islands - magnitudo 8.7

1965

Nobel Prizes Physics: Richard P. Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

1965

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Robert Burns Woodward, per i suoi notevoli successi nella sintesi organica

1965

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Fran‡ois Jacob, Andre Lwoff, Jacques Monod

1965

Nobel Prizes Peace: $United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund$ (UNICEF)

1965

Nobel Prizes Literature: Michail Sholokhov

1965

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Margaret Smith d. M.Bueno (6-4 7-5)

1965

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-1)

1965

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Roy Emerson d. F. Stolle (6-2 6-4 6-4)

1965

Baseball World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers (NL) 4-3 Minnesota Twins (AL)

1965

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: FC Internazionale Milano (Italy)

1966

Botswana, Lesotho, and Guyana become independent states within the British Commonwealth

1966

Sukarno leaves office in Indonesia; Suharto assumes power

8 September 1966

The first Star Trek episode 'The Man Trap' is broadcast. The plot concerns a creature that sucks salt from human bodies

08-22 March 1966

China, magnitudo 8.3

1966

Turkey, ORIENTALE - 2.520 deads - magnitudo 6,9

1966

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Robert S. Mulliken, per il suo fondamentale lavoro sull'attrazione chimica e sulla struttura elettronica delle molecole, attraverso lo studio dell'orbita molecolare

1966

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Charles Brenton Huggins, Francis Peyton Rous

1966

Nobel Prizes Peace: not assigned

1966

Nobel Prizes Literature: Agnon e Sachs

1966

Nobel Prizes Physics: Alfred Kastler

1966

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Manuel Santana d. D. Ralston (6-4 11-9 6-4)

1966

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: England d. W. Germany (4-2) in England

1966

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Billie Jean King d. M.Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1)4 11-9 6-4)

1966

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-3)

1966

Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles (AL) 4-0 Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1966

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid CF (Spain)

17 June 1967

Red China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb

23 July 1967

Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks occur in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn

27 January 1967

Three Apollo astronauts—Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in spacecraft fire during simulated launch

3 December 1967

Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant. Patient dies 18 days later

30 May 1967

Biafra secedes from Nigeria

5 June 1967

Israeli and Arab forces battle; six-day war ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and east bank of Suez Canal

1967

Nobel Prizes Physics: Hans Albrecht Bethe

1967

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter, per i loro studi sulle reazioni fotochimiche veloci, effettuati attraverso la creazione di uno stato di disequilibrio generato da piccoli impulsi di energia

1967

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald

1967

Nobel Prizes Peace: not assigned

1967

Nobel Prizes Literature: Miguel Angel Asturias

1967

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Billie Jean King d. A.Jones (6-3 6-4)

1967

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers d. SF Warriors (4-2)

1967

Tennis Wimbledon Men: John Newcombe d. W. Bungert (6-3 6-1 6-1)

1967

Baseball World Series: St. Louis Cardinals (NL) 4-3 Boston Red Sox (AL)

1967

Football I Super Bowl: Green Bay Packers d. Kansas City (35-10)

1967

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Celtic (Scotland)

1968

The rock musical Hair opens on Broadway

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

20 August 1968

Czechoslovakia is invaded by Russians and Warsaw Pact forces to crush liberal regime

31 March 1968

President Johnson announces he will not seek or accept presidential renomination

4 April 1968

Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, is slain in Memphis

5 June 1968

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is shot and critically wounded in Los Angeles hotel after winning California primary, dies June 6

15 January 1968

Italy, Sicilia occid. - 270 deads

1968

Iran, 12.000 deads - magnitudo 7,4

31 August 1968

Iran, Dasht-e Bayaz - 10.000 deads

1968

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Lars Onsager, per la scoperta delle reazioni oscillanti che da lui prendono nome, fondamentali per lo studio della termodinamica dei processi di non equilibrio

1968

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg

1968

Nobel Prizes Peace: René Cassin

1968

Nobel Prizes Literature: Yasunari Kawabata

1968

Nobel Prizes Physics: Luis W. Alvarez

1968

Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers (AL) 4-3 St. Louis Cardinals (NL)

1968

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Manchester United FC (England)

1968

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Rod Laver d. T. Roche (6-3 6-4 6-2)

1968

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics X: Grenoble, France

1968

Football II Super Bowl: Green Bay Packers d. Oakland Raiders (33-14)

1968

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-2)

1968

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XIX: Mexico City (Mexico)

1968

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Billie Jean King d. J.Tegart (9-7 7-5)

15-17 August 1969

Woodstock Festival

18 July 1969

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of fatal accident at Chappaquiddick, Mass., in which Mary Jo Kopechne was drowned—gets two-month suspended sentence

1969

27-year-old Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi deposes King Idris of Libya and establishes a pro-Arabic, anti-Western, Islamic republic

1969

Internet (ARPA) goes online

1969 January 20

Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US

1969 July 20

Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., take first walk on the Moon

20 January 1969

Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th president of the USA

20 July 1969

Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins—take man's first walk on moon

28 June 1969

Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement

August 1969

half a million people gather near Woodstock for four days of drugs and rock 'n' roll. Performers include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who,Joan Baez,Crosby,Stills,Nash and Young,Jefferson Airplane and Sly

1963-1969

Lyndon Johnson (Aug 27, 1908-January 22, 1973). 36° President , Democratic

1969-1974

Richard Nixon (January 09, 1913 -April 22, 1994). 37° President , Repubblican

1969

Nobel Prizes Physics: Murray Gell-Mann

1969

Nobel Prizes Literature: Samuel Beckett

1969

Nobel Prizes Economy: Ragnar Frisch, January Tinbergen

1969

Nobel Prizes Peace: International Labour Organization

1969

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Max Delbruck, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria

1969

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Derek Harold Richard Barton, Odd Hassel, per il loro contributo allo sviluppo del concetto di conformazione e l'applicazione nel campo della chimica

1969

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-3)

1969

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Ann Jones d. B.J.King (3-6 6-3 6-2)6-4)

1969

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Rod Laver d. J. Newcombe (6-4 5-7 6-4 6-4)

1969

Baseball World Series: New York Mets (NL) 4-1 Baltimore Orioles (AL)

1969

Football III Super Bowl: New York Jets d. Baltimore Colts (16-7)

1969

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AC Milan (Italy)

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