The Sixties (1960s)
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Czech revolution: spring of Prague (Dubcek)
Sharpeville massacre in South Africa
Martin Luther King assassinated
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first astronaut
First telecommunication satellite, the Telstar
Cultural Revolution in China: directed by Mao, millions of students enroll as ‘Red Guards’
Gordon Moore's law: processing power of computers will double every 18 months
Gregory Pincus invents the birth control pill
Assassination of John Kennedy
First heart transplant (in South Africa, by Dr Christian Barnard)
Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the Moon
US president Richard Nixon approves carpet bombing in Vietnam
Greatest train robbery of all times on the Glasgow-London train
Student protests in Berkeley spread around the States, free-speech movement
Soviet troops build a wall to isolate West Berlin
The CIA fabricates the Gulf of Tonkin incident as a pretext for US intervention in Vietnam
Cable TV is deployed in US cities
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