This document provides a timeline of important historical events from the 1960s decade. Key events included the U-2 spy plane being shot down over Soviet soil in 1960 increasing Cold War tensions, the Beatles rising to fame in 1960, John F. Kennedy being elected president in 1961 and later assassinated in 1963, the Soviet Union launching the first man into space in 1961, the Six Day War between Israel and neighboring Arab nations in 1967, and Apollo 11 landing on the moon in 1969. The timeline also mentions the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961, social movements like the hippie movement emerging, and a massacre occurring in Mexico in 1968.

1. Universidad Automa del Estado de Hidalgo
Instituto de ciencias de la salud
ENGLISH III
CINTHIA ARELY CASTELAN DUEN
TIMELINE
Decade of the 60s
THIRD SEMESTER GROUP : 2
TEACHER: CRUZ GARCÍA LORENA

2. IMPORTANT DATES
1960
A U.S. spy plane "U2"
was attacked on May
1st 1960 on Soviet
soil taking with it any
hope that the
tensions of the Cold
War would soon calm
down.
The Great Chilean
Earthquake occurs,
leaving at least 970 dead
and with 9.5 degrees on
the Richter scale was
recorded by the strongest
human by seismographs.

3. The Beatles fame, composed
by John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison
and Pete Best, which was
later replaced by Ringo Starr.
1961
was assassinated Patrice
Lumumba, the prime minister
and leader of the independence
of the Congo.

4. 1961
John F. Kennedy took
office as President of the
United States but was
killed in 1963.
The Soviet Union began the space
race by sending the first man into
space (Yuri Gagarin).

5. 1967
Six Days War
The June 5, 1967, broke the Six Day
War. At that time, Israel is threatened
with annihilation by Egypt, Jordan and
Syria. From 5 to 10 June, Israel
confronted a coalition of four Arab
countries: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and
Iraq.
1968
On October 2, 1968 was
carried out one of the
bloodiest massacres in the
history of our country run by
the government.

6. 1969
July 16, 1969,
The Apollo XI mission took first
human began (N. Armstrong) to
the Moon
Historical events without a date
Born social movements begin as
"hippies" who would notice in their
anti-war protests would spread
around the world