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1960 Major News Events in History. OPEC ( Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ) is formed. Soviet missile shoots down the US U2 spy plane. The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers are going to be sent to Vietnam. Construction on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt began.
1960 ( MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
- The Great Society. During his presidential campaign in 1960, John F. Kennedy had promised the most ambitious domestic agenda since the New Deal: the “New Frontier,” a package of laws and reforms that sought to eliminate injustice and inequality in the United States.
- The War in Vietnam. Unfortunately, the War on Poverty was expensive–too expensive, especially as the war in Vietnam became the government’s top priority.
- The Fight for Civil Rights. The struggle for civil rights had defined the ‘60s ever since four black students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in February 1960 and refused to leave.
- The Radical ’60s. Just as black power became the new focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, other groups were growing similarly impatient with incremental reforms.
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1] While the achievements of humans being launched into space , orbiting Earth , and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the " countercultural decade ...
July 4 – Following the admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state the previous year, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. July 11 – Harper Lee releases her critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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