The Decades: 1960
Current Events
Kennedy becomes president (1960)
Pysco, film, Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
First weather satellite (1960)
Montreal Canadiens win Stanley Cup (1960)
First man in space, Russian - Yuri Gagarin (1961)
Dr. No, film, Ian Fleming (1962)
Toronto Maples Leafs win Stanley Cup (1962)
Assassination of President Kennedy (1963)
Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby (1963)
She Loves You, The Beatles (1963)
Surfin USA, The Beach Boys (1963)
Race riots in Harlem and other US cities (1964)
Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) winds world heavyweight boxing
championship (1964)
Arafat takes over Arab forces (1964)
Malcolm X shot (1965)
War in Vietnam continues (1965)
Major power blackout in Ontario leads to increase in birth rate 9
months later (1965)
First heart transplant operation (1966)
Unmanned Soviet spacecraft lands on moon (1966)
Colour TV becomes popular (1966)
Expo 67 Canada (1967)
Canada's 100th anniversary (1967)
Six Day War, Israel and Arab countries (1967)
2001 A Space Odyssey, film, Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Senator Robert Kennedy assassinated (1968)
Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis (1968)
Martin Luther King assassinated (1968)
Demonstrations in US against Vietnam War (1969)
Concorde aircraft flights begin (1969)
Manson murders of Sharon Tate et al (1969)
Violence in North Ireland between Protestants and Roman Catholics
(1969)
Literature
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt (1960)
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1960)
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (1961)
The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone (1961)
The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins (1961)
Catch 22, Joseph Heller (1961)
Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck (1962)
The Thin Red Line, James Jones (1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee (1962)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (1962)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John LeCarre (1963)
The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman (1963)
Unsafe at Any Speed, Ralph Nader, (1965)
The Green Berets, Robin Moore (1965)
The Thousand Days, Srthur Schlesinger Jr (1965)
Thunderball, Ian Fleming (1965)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (1966)
Valley of the Dolls, Jaqueline Susann (1966)
Cactus Flower, Abe Burrows (1966)
The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris (1967)
True Grit, Charles Portis (1967)
Airport, Arthur Hailey (1967)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1967)
Myra Breckenridge, Gore Vidal (1968)
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth (1969)
The Godfather, Mario Puzo (1969)
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton (1969)
Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut (1969)