'60s" redirects here. For decades comprising years 60–70 of other centuries, see List of decades.
Top, L-R: A soldier crawls on the ground during the Vietnam War; The Beatles, part of the British Invasion, change music in the United States and around the world Centre, L-R: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, after serving as President for three years; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream Speech to a crowd of over a million; millions participate in the Woodstock Festival of 1969. Bottom, L-R: China's Mao Zedong puts forward the Great Leap Forward plan; the Stonewall Inn, site of major demonstrations for gay and lesbian rights; for the first time in history, a human being sets foot on the Moon, in the Moon landing of July 1969.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1960s-related
categories: Births – Deaths – By country
Establishments – Disestablishments
The 1960s was a decade that began on January 1, 1960 and ended on December 31, 1969.[1] The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called the Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends around the globe. This "cultural decade" is more loosely defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 and ending around 1974