1960

A plane spies North American "U2" is brought down on May 1, 1960 on Soviet soil taking to him
with it any hope that they were calming soon the tensions of the cold war.

The Great Earthquake of Chile produces to itself, leaving at least 970 dead men and that with 9.5
degrees in the Richter scale is the strongest registered by the human being by means of
seismographs

1961

There is murdered Patrice Lumumba, prime minister and leader of the independence of the
Congo.

John F. Kennedy, takes possession as president of the United States.

The Soviet Union initiates the spatial career sending the first man to the space (Yuri Gagarin).

Construction of the wall of Berlin.

F. Lacob and J. Monod: elucidation of the mechanisms of the genetic regulation to the cellular
level.

1962

The world is at the edge of an atomic warfare in the Crisis of the Missiles.

Celebration of the Council Vatican the IInd, which provoked reforms in the Catholic Church.

The first transatlantic link of television for satellite (Telstar-1).

1963

Paul VI happens to Juan XXIII.

John F. Kennedy dies murdered in Dallas (November 22).

Valentina Tereshkova: the first woman who travelled to the space

1964

The United States begins an intervention opened in Vietnam, supporting the regime of South
Vietnam, in war against North Vietnam supported by the USSR.
1965

Movement of Abu Simbel's temples (Egypt).

Murder of Malcolm X on February 21.

1966

5to Military coup in Argentina. This blow gave place to a dictatorship autonamed Revolution
Argentina.

1967

The Six Day War.

They murder Ernesto Guevara.

1968

Martin Luther King dies murdered in Memphis. (April 4).

There dies Robert F. Kennedy murdered in the Hotel Ambassador, after gaining the primary
choices of California.

Tlatelolco's slaughter.

Richard Nixon, president of the United States.

The mission Apollo the XIth takes for the first time the human being (N. Armstrong) to the Moon.

Creation, in the USA, of a military network of telecommunications, from which it will derive the
Internet network

1969

On February 1: the Red International Cross resumes the sending to Biafra's region.

On February 3: the National Palestinian Congress it nominates a chief of the PLO Yaser Arafat, who
assumes the headquarters the following day.

On February 13: in Munich (Germany), the surgeons Fritz Sebening y Wener Klinner, with Rudolf
Zenker's surgical unit, realize the first transplant of heart of the history of this country.

On March 3: in The United States there is thrown the Apollo 9 to prove the lunar module in
terrestrial

On March 3: in The United States, the Palestinian Christian Sirhan Sirhan admits before a court
into Los Angeles that he murdered Robert F. Kennedy.
On March 11: in Venezuela, Rafael Caldera assumes the presidency.

On March 16: in Venezuela, the Flight 742 of Viasa with route Caracas-Maracaibo-Miami, it
smashed within a few minutes of detaching of the Airport Golden grain of Maracaibo, expiring the
84 you present on board, 71 persons in land, giving the total of 155 dead men and 100 persons in
land were hurt.

On March 20: in Gibraltar they marry John Lennon y Yoko Ono.

On November 14: The United States throws the Apollo 12, the second crewed mission that walked
on the Moon.

On November 14: The United States throws the Apollo 12, the second crewed mission that walked
on the Moon.