1960s

Decade of the Gregorian calendar (1960–1969) Clockwise from top-left: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War;The Beatles led the British Invasion of the U.S. music market that subsequently spread worldwide, pictured here first landing in the U.S. in 1964;A half-a-million people participate in the 1969 Woodstock Festival;Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon during the Cold War-era Space Race;The Stonewall riots mark the beginning of the gay liberation movement;China's Mao Zedong initiates the Great Leap Forward plan which fails and brings mass starvation in which 15 to 55 million people died by 1961, and in 1966, Mao starts the Cultural Revolution, which purged traditional Chinese practices and ideas;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 250,000. Millennia 2nd millennium Centuries 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Categories Births Deaths By country Establishments Disestablishments vte The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "'60s" or