1960's

1960's Timeline

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1960
Presidential debate between Nixon and John F Kennedy was televised.
NASA sent up ECHO, the first communications satellite to be seen with the naked eye.
American "U2" spy plane shot down over the USSR.
The Olympic Games were held in Rome and Wilma Rudolf won three gold medals.
The halogen lamp invented.

1961
John F Kennedy moves into the White House."Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Soviets send first man into space.
Alan Shepard was sent to space in the "Freedom 7".
Valium invented.
The non dairy creamer invented.

1962
John Glenn became the first man to orbit the earth - 3 times.
Rachel Carson warned DDT threat, five states banned DDT.
The audio cassette invented.
The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
1963
Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream" on August 28, 1963.
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22.
The video disk invented

1964
The Beatles were seen on the "Ed Sullivan Show".
This was the first year the cigarette boxes had a warning printed on it "Smoking can be hazardous to your health".
The first Civil Rights bill was passed to stop racial discrimination.
acrylic paint invented.
Permanent-press fabric invented.
BASIC (an early computer language) is invented

1965
President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnam and Americans begin protesting the war.
The world's first roofed stadium was built, the Houston Astrodome.
Astroturf invented.
Soft contact lenses invented.
NutraSweet invented.
The compact disk invented by James Russell.
Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.

1966
Walt Disney died
electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.

1967
The first heart transplant was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa.
The first handheld calculator invented.

1968
Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Shirley Chisholm was elected America's first black woman to Congress.
The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
The first computer with integrated circuits made.
Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).

1969
Woodstock
Apollo 11 landed on the moon, astronauts aboard. Neil Armstrong "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
The arpanet (first internet) invented.
The artificial heart invented.
The ATM invented.
The bar-code scanner is invented.