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4 days ago · The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid- 20th century. [3] It began in the early 1960s, [4] and continued through the early 1970s. [5] It is often synonymous with cultural liberalism and with the various social changes of the decade.
- Early 1960s to Early 1970s
- Worldwide
1 day ago · t. e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in ...
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- Vladimir Ivashko (acting)
- Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
3 days ago · In 1960 alone, you have the founding of the Students for a Democratic Society, the SDS. This was a very small organization for a while. There were only a little more than a thousand dues-paying members of the Students for a Democratic Society at the start of 1965. By the late 1960s, some put the numbers as high as eighty or one hundred thousand.
25. The Spy Craze. (Everett Collection) 30 Fads of the 1960s: James Bond is obviously no fad, the 25th big screen adventure was released last year. But back in the ’60s, there was Beatlemania, Batmania and Bondmania (which Adam West used to refer to as as “the Three Bs”).
2 days ago · Balenciaga was a revolutionary designer who was not afraid to cut and let loose because he had everything under control. In the 1950s and 1960s his designs were well known for attention to color and texture. He was creating different silhouettes for women, in 1955 he created the tunic, 1957 the sack dress and 1958 the Empire styles.
1 day ago · The 1960s, it seems, are always with us. The media weakness for anniversaries and the broadcast time afforded by digital television issued last year in a series of programmes on BBC4 concerning the double anniversary of the Wolfenden Report (1957) and the consequent Sexual Offences Act (1967).
3 days ago · The Swinging Sixties. Ranking everything in the era of JFK, the Vietnam War, the Beatles, Martin Luther King, the mini-skirt, the space race, and Woodstock. Over 200 TV viewers have voted on the 30+ shows on Best 1960s TV Dramas, Ranked. Current Top 3: Star Trek: The Original Series, The Fugitive, Columbo.
