Views by Decade: 1960s (page 1)1960-1969:
Voting, 1965 |
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18 August 1960 | - oral contraceptives marketed for the first time |
13 August 1961 | - wall seals border between East and West Berlin |
13 October 1961 | - Saskatchewan introduces first Medical Care Insurance bill |
2 May 1962 | - Canadian dollar drops to 92.5 cents US |
22 October 1962 | - Cuban Missile Crisis threatens nuclear war |
22 November 1963 | - US President John F. Kennedy assassinated. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy would also be murdered before the end of the decade. |
1964 | - social insurance numbers are introduced |
15 February 1965 | - new national flag proclaimed and raised for the first time |
1966 | - Mao Zedong launches cultural revolution' in China |
10 October 1966 | - CBC broadcasts in colour |
1968 | - credit cards are introduced in Canada |
Books: | Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow; Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers; George Grant, Lament for a Nation |
Movies: | "The Apartment;" "The Sound of Music;" "Midnight Cowboy." |
Music: | The term 'reggae,' for ragged dance music, is coined in Jamaica; psychedelic, folk-rock, and blues-rock are invented. |
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