The 60’s
- U2 Incident (May 1, 1960)
- MARIE Tragedy (June 1960)
- RB-47 Shootdown (July 1, 1960)
- CORONA and Spy Satellite (August 1960)
- Peace Corps (1960)
- Operation Pedro Plan (1960 - 1962)
- John F. Kennedy Assassination (1917 - 1963) — President (1961 - 1963)
- Berlin Wall Timeline (August 13, 1961 — November 9, 1989)
- Space Race (April 12, 1961 — July 20, 1969)
- Bay of Pigs (April 17, 1961)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16 — October 28, 1962)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973) — President (1963 - 1968)
- USS Thresher Submarine Sinking (April 10, 1963)
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906 - 1982) — Premier (1964 - 1982)
- Summer of Love and Woodstock (1967)
- Timothy Leary and Psychedelics in the 1960’s
- Six Day War (June 5 - 11, 1967)
- USS Liberty Incident (June 8, 1967)
- Seige of Khe Sanh during Vietnam War (January 21, 1968)
- Tet Offensive during Vietnam War (January 1968)
- USS Scorpion Submarine Sinking (May 22, 1968)
- USS Pueblo (January 23, 1968)
- Czechoslovakia Uprising (August 20, 1968)
- US Navy EC-121M (VQ-1) Shootdown by N. Koreans (April 15, 1969)
- Willy Brandt (1913 - 1992) — Chancellor of Germany (1969 - 1974)
- 1960 Links
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