Timeline of Major Events in the 60s // Hippie Publication

1960

• Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
• Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
• First Televised Presidential Debates
• Lasers Invented
• Lunch Counter Sit-In at Woolworth's in Greenboro, NC
• Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
• Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
• The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA
• Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth

1961

• Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Berlin Wall Built
• Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
• JFK Gives "Man on the Moon" Speech
• Peace Corps Founded
• Soviets Launch First Man in Space
• Stalin's Body Removed From Lenin's Mausoleum
• The Antarctic Treaty Goes Into Force
• Tsar Bomba, the Largest Nuclear Weapon to Ever Be Exploded

1962

• Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Famous Escape From Alcatraz
• First James Bond Movie
• First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
• First Wal-Mart Opens
• James Meredith Admitted Into the Segregated University of Mississippi
• Johnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight Show
• Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
• Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring

1963

• 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
• Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique
• Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Protest
• First Dr. Who Episode Airs
• First Woman in Space
• Great Train Robbery in England
• "Hot Line" Established Between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
• JFK Assassinated
• March on Washington
• Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
• Medgar Evers Is Murdered

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
• Italy Asks for Help to Stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• Japan's First Bullet Train Line Opens
• Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
• Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued

1965

• British Sea Gem Oil Rig Collapses
• Los Angeles Riots
• Malcolm X Assassinated
• Miniskirt First Appears
• Nicolae Ceausescu Comes to Power in Romania
• New York City Great Blackout
• The Rolling Stones’ Mega Hit Song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
• U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam

1966

• Nazi Albert Speer Released From Spandau Prison
• Black Panther Party Established
• First Kwanzaa Celebrated
• Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
• Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
• National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded
• Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
• Two Multi-Ton Chunks of the Mundrabilla Meteorite Found

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
• Thurgood Marshall Becomes the First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1968

• Japan's 300 Million Yen Robbery
• Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
• My Lai Massacre
• Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep
• Prague Spring
• Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
• Spy Ship USS Pueblo Captured
• Tet Offensive
• Zodiac Killer Strikes

1969

• ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
• Manson Family Murders
• 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