1960:
March 6: The Canton of Geneva in Switzerland gives women the right to vote.
May 1st: An American spy plane, U-2, is shot down over Russia.
May 23rd: Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi from WWII is captured in Argentina.
August 11th: Chad becomes independent from France
December: Viet Cong, a communist group, emerge in South Vietnam.
1961:
February 12th: The USSR launches Venera 1, a probe, toward Venus.
April 11: Trial of Adolf Eichmann, a WWII nazi, begins.
April 12th: Yuri A. Gagarin, of Moscow, is the first man put in orbit around earth.
April 17th: Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba
October 29th: The USSR fires a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, and it becomes the biggest explosion in history.
1962:
January 9th: Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.
May 31st: Nazi Adolf Eichmann is hanged at a prison in Israel and his body is creamated.
August 17th: Peter Fetcher is killed trying to cross the Berlin wall into West Berlin.
October 11th: Pope John XXIII opens second Vatican Council.
December 24th: Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion.
1963:
January 22nd: France and West Germany sign a treaty of cooperation, the Elysee Treaty.
June 3rd: Pope John XXIII dies.
June 5th: The first annual NHL draft is held in Montreal, Quebec.
August 5th: The U.S. United Kingdom and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
October 14th: A revolution starts in South Yemen against British Colonial rule.
1964:
Beatles become very popular throughout the world in what is known as Beatlemania.
January 29th: The Soviet Union launches two satellites, Elektron I and II.
August 16th: General Nguyen Khanh replaces Duong Van Minh as South Vietnams chief of state.
October 12th: The Soviet Union launches Voskod 1 into Earths orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.
November 28th: France performs underground nuclear test in Algeria.
1965:
January 28th: The Who makes their first appearence on British TV.
February 15th: Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf.
March 3rd: USSR performs nuclear test in Eastern Kazakh.
April 9th: India and Pakistan engage in border fight.
July 21st: Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation Pact.
1966:
January 19th: Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India.
February 3rd: The Soviet Union's Luna 9 makesthe first soft landing on the moon.
February 9th: The Soviet Union's probe Venera-3 on the surface of Venus, the first space probe to reach the surface of another planet.
March 31st: The Soviet Union launches the space probe Luna 10 for the moon.
April 3rd: Luna 10 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit the moon.
1967:
January 27: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty to ban nuclear weapons from outer space.
June 5: The Six Day War breaks out between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
June 10th: Israel wins the six day war.
June 28th: Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
August 7th: China agrees to give aid to North Vietnam.
1968:
January 23rd: North Korea capture the USS Pueblo.
January 31st: North Vietnam launches the Tet offensive in South Vietnam.
May 6th: In France, "Bloody Monday" marks one of the most violent days of the Parisian student revolt.
August 20th: Czechoslovakia is invaded by Russia.
December 24th: North Korea releases the crew of the USS Pueblo after keeping them for 11 months.
1969:
January 5th: The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus.
January 27th: Nine Jews are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
March 18th: Operation Breakfast begins, which is the secret bombing of Cambodia.
August 14th: British troops are deployed to Northern Ireland following the Battle of Bogside.
October 1st: The Beijing Subway operation begins.
