1960

Events 1960s – The Race to Space

20th Century, Events Decade

The Race to Space Events The Vietnam War (1955–1975) The Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) – an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from U.S. government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. Cultural Revolution in China (1966–1976) The Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 occurred as part of the Transition to the New Order that marked the beginning of Suharto’s 31-year presidency. The Cuban Missile Crisis ( 16–28 October 1962) – a near-military confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union about the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. After an American Naval (quarantine) blockade of Cuba the Soviet Union under […]

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1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

20th Century, Populair, With Docu

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967,Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era’s youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

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Events 1960s – First descent to deepest point on Earth

20th Century, Events Decade

1960 First descent to deepest point on Earth 1960 January 22: First crewed descent to the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench. March 21: The Sharpeville Massacre, in which the police opened fire against a protesting crowd at a police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, resulting in 69 deaths and 180 injuries. April 21: Construction of Brasília, Brazil’s new capital, finished. May 1: 1960 U-2 incident sparks deterioration in relations between superpowers. May 9: The birth control pill becomes commercially available. May 16: Construction of the first laser. May 22: An earthquake in Valdivia, Chile of magnitude 9.4 to 9.6, the highest ever recorded, […]

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1968 Earthrise picture

20th Century, Culture, Science

Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth’s gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing and then returned to Earth. The three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to see and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise.  Apollo 8 took 68 hours to travel to the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times over the course of twenty hours, during which they made a Christmas Eve television broadcast where they read the first ten verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV […]

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1964 Thunderbirds TV Series

Culture, With Movie

 Thunderbirds is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. It was filmed between 1964 and 1966 using a form of electronic marionette puppetry called “Supermarionation” combined with scale model special effects sequences. Two series, totalling 32 fifty-minute episodes, were made; production ended with the sixth episode of the second series after Lew Grade, APF’s financial backer, failed in his efforts to sell the programme to US network television. Full Movie Thunderbirds Are Go – 1966  Set in the 2060s, Thunderbirds was a follow-up to the earlier Supermarionation productions Four Feather Falls, Supercar, Fireball XL5 and Stingray. It concerns the exploits of International Rescue, a life-saving organisation with a secret base […]

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Moon Speech – John F. Kennedy (Animated)

20th Century, Culture

On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave one of the best speeches in recorded history.  “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win”. 7 years after JFK’s historic speech, Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. It has […]

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All You Need Is Love

20th Century, Populair

Twenty-four days after the release of Sgt. Pepper, the Beatles represented England on the sixhour TV show Our World, a satellite broadcast seen by 400 million. “All You Need Is Love” was the simple message they wanted to send to the world. “It was for love and bloody peace,” Ringo Starr said. The backing choir on the single included Mick Jagger, Keith Moon and Donovan.

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August 2, 1610: During Henry Hudson’s search for the Northwest Passage, he sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay. The explorer thought he had finally found the elusive Northwest Passage, but despite spending the following months mapping and exploring its eastern shores, he and his crew did not find a passage to Asia.

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