• The era's highest grossing movie: The Sound of Music, 1965
  • Birth of Astrogeology: Arizona crater mystery solved, 1960
  • Fastest Economic Growth of the 20th Century
  • The first nuclear-powered surface combatant, USS Long Beach (CGN 9), commissioned 1961
  • Jane Goodall starts chimpanzee research at Gombe, Tanzania, 1960
  • Taiwan, one of four rising Asian Tigers of the 1960s
  • International Affairs: Saddam Hussein assumes Vice Presidency of Iraq, 1969
  • Surfin' USA: Greg "Da Bull" Noll rides biggest wave ever, Waimea Bay, 1969
  • 100x more potent than morphine, Fentanyl enters medical use, 1968
  • Qualcomm and Intel established, 1968
  • The First Lady goes to India alone, March 1962
  • Sports Achievements: the champion Green Bay Packers, 1961, '62, '65, '66, '67
  • Wal-Mart Stores, founded 1962
  • Architecture: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYC, 1962-1969
  • An American president welcomes an Israeli prime minister to the White House for the first time, 1964

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