- — Europe:
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth aboard Vostok 1, a triumph of the Soviet space program that followed the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and symbolized Soviet scientific power in the Cold War.
Era: The Soviet Union
Sources: Soviet Union · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Russia · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
Chingiz Aitmatov wins the Lenin Prize
The Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov was awarded the Lenin Prize for 'Tales of the Mountains and Steppes', bringing Kyrgyz literature to a worldwide audience and becoming the republic's most celebrated cultural figure.
Era: Soviet Kirghizia
Sources: Chingiz Aytmatov · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
Guiana Space Centre
On 14 April 1964 Prime Minister Georges Pompidou announces French Guiana as the site of France’s new space centre, chosen from fourteen sites studied; a Véronique sounding rocket launched on 9 April 1968 makes it operational. The first Ariane flies from it in 1979.
Era: The Republics & the Modern Nation
Sources: CSG at 50: half a century of Europe’s Spaceport · European Space Agency
- — North America:
A new national flag and a maturing identity
Canada adopted the red-and-white maple leaf flag in 1965, a symbol of a distinct national identity as the post-war country built a welfare state and universal health care.
Era: Modern Canada — multiculturalism, patriation, and reconciliation
Sources: Canada · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
National Palace Museum opens in Taipei
A permanent home opens in Taipei for a vast collection of Chinese imperial art and antiquities, much of it relocated from the mainland around 1948 to 1949.
Era: Cold War, the 'Two Chinas' Question, and the Economic Miracle
Sources: National Palace Museum, Taipei · National Palace Museum
- — North America:
Apollo 11 Moon landing
American astronauts became the first humans to walk on the Moon, a defining achievement of the Cold War space race.
Era: Superpower, civil rights, and the modern era
Sources: Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation; U.S. History Collections · Library of Congress
Culture & Ideas in the 1960s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1960s — 6 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 1961 to 1969. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 6
- Nations
- 6
- Earliest
- 1961
- Latest
- 1969
- Asia
- 2
- Europe
- 2
- North America
- 2
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.