Portal:1960s

The 1960s Portal The Apollo 11 moon landing "The Sixties", as they are known in both scholarship and popular culture, is a term used by historians, journalists, and other objective academics; in some cases nostalgically to describe the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, formalities and schooling. Conservatives denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess and flamboyance, and decay of social order. The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time. The 1960s became synonymous with the new, radical, and subversive events and trends of the period. In Africa the 1960s was a period of radical political change as 32 countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers. Some commentators have seen in this era a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom, broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm. Christopher Booker charts the rise, success, fall/nightmare and explosion in the London scene of the 1960s. However, this alone does not explain the mass nature of the phenomenon. Several nations such as the U.S., France, Germany and Britain turned to the left in the early and mid 1960s. In the United States, John F. Kennedy, a Keynesian and staunch anti-communist, pushed for social reforms. His assassination in 1963 was a stunning shock. Liberal reforms were finally passed under Lyndon B. Johnson including civil rights for African Americans and healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Despite his large-scale Great Society programs, Johnson was increasingly reviled by the New Left at home and abroad. The heavy-handed American role in the Vietnam War outraged student protestors across the globe, as they found peasant rebellion typified by Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara more appealing. Italy formed its first left-of-center government in March 1962 with a coalition of Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, and moderate Republicans. Socialists joined the ruling block in December 1963. In Britain, the Labour Party gained power in 1964. In Brazil, João Goulart became president after Jânio Quadros resigned. Featured article - This is a Featured article, which represents some of the best content on English Wikipedia.. On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and pronounced dead the following day. Kennedy, a United States senator and candidate in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries, won the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his campaign supporters in the Ambassador Hotel's Embassy Ballroom. After leaving the podium, and exiting through a kitchen hallway, he was mortally wounded by multiple shots fired by Sirhan. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital nearly 25 hours later. His body was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (Full article...) List of Featured articles Apollo 11 Stonewall riots The Beatles Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Highway 61 Revisited Daisy (advertisement) 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash December 1964 South Vietnamese coup 1968 Illinois earthquake 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing 1966 New York City smog 1969 Curaçao uprising September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt Coinage Act of 1965 Tropical Storm Brenda (1960) 1964 European Nations' Cup Final History of Aston Villa F.C. (1961–present) 1962 Tour de France Voting Rights Act of 1965 Aftermath (Rolling Stones album) Good article - This is a Good article, an article that meets a core set of high editorial standards. The Rolling Stones performing at Summerfest in Milwaukee in June 2015. Left to right: Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards. The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular and enduring bands of the rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader. Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager in 1963 and encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger–Richards partnership soon became the band's primary songwriting and creative force. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then found greater success with their own material, as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", "Get Off of My Cloud" (both 1965), and "Paint It Black" (1966) became international number-one hits. Aftermath (1966), their first entirely original album, is often considered to be the most important of their early albums. In 1967, they had the double-sided hit "Ruby Tuesday"/"Let's Spend the Night Together" and experimented with psychedelic rock on Their Satanic Majesties Request. By the end of the 1960s, they had returned to their rhythm and blues-based rock sound, with hit singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968) and "Honky Tonk Women" (1969), and albums Beggars Banquet (1968), featuring "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", and Let It Bleed (1969), featuring "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Gimme Shelter". (Full article...) List of Good articles History of the Soviet Union (1964–82) Psycho (1960 film) Psychedelic rock Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath Murder of John Lennon Abbey Road 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) The Who The Hustler (film) Goldfinger (film) Dr. No (film) The Wild Bunch Tommy (The Who album) 1961 San Diego Chargers season Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 American Airlines Flight 1 (1962) 1964 Gabonese coup d'état 1965 Burundian coup d'état attempt Elvis (1968 TV program) 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion 1968–1969 Japanese university protests 1963 Syrian coup d'état 1966 Syrian coup d'état The Secret Service The Judy Garland Show Joe 90 Madhouse on Castle Street Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. The Beatles' 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines 1964 Zagreb flood 1960 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Debbie (1969) February 1969 nor'easter 1966 NASA T-38 crash Selected picture - Joan Baez and Bob Dylan American folk singers Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, performing a duet at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. Both were relatively new recording artists at the time, with Baez being at the forefront of American roots revival and Dylan having just released his second album. Baez was especially influential in introducing audiences to Dylan's music by recording several of his early songs and inviting him onstage during her own concerts. Did you know - ... that several thousand people lived on Washington's National Mall (pictured) for six weeks in 1968 as part of the Poor People's Campaign? ...that the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina? ... that The New York Times credited the success of promoter Gary Kurfirst's 1968 New York Rock Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Doors as inspiring the 1969 Woodstock Festival? Related portals Featured biography - This is a Featured article, which represents some of the best content on English Wikipedia.. Sellers in 1973 Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers featured on a number of hit comic songs, and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series. Born in Southsea, Sellers made his stage debut at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, when he was two weeks old. He began accompanying his parents in a variety act that toured the provincial theatres. He first worked as a drummer and toured around England as a member of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). He developed his mimicry and improvisational skills during a spell in Ralph Reader's wartime Gang Show entertainment troupe, which toured Britain and the Far East. After the war, Sellers made his radio debut in ShowTime, and eventually became a regular performer on various BBC Radio shows. During the early 1950s, Sellers, along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, took part in the successful radio series The Goon Show, which ended in 1960. (Full article...) List of Featured biographies John Lennon Bob Dylan Richard Nixon Neil Armstrong Malcolm X Jimi Hendrix Frank Zappa Alan Shepard John Glenn Walt Disney George Harrison Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Hey Jude Selected biography - This is a Good article, an article that meets a core set of high editorial standards. Official portrait, 1972 Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. Brezhnev was born to a working-class family in Kamenskoye (now Kamianske, Ukraine) within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire. After the results of the October Revolution were finalized with the creation of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev joined the Communist party's youth league in 1923 before becoming an official party member in 1929. When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, he joined the Red Army as a commissar and rose rapidly through the ranks to become a major general during World War II. Following the war's end, Brezhnev was promoted to the party's Central Committee in 1952 and became a full member of the Politburo by 1957. In 1964, he consolidated enough power to replace Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the CPSU, the most powerful position in the country. (Full article...) List of selected biographies Alfred Hitchcock Fidel Castro Suharto Pelé Keith Richards Mick Jagger Ravi Shankar Stanley Kubrick Keith Moon Félix Houphouët-Boigny Selected article - Map indicating towns and cities in which significant fighting occurred during the Tet Offensive of 1968 The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The name is the truncated version of the Lunar New Year festival name in Vietnamese, Tết Nguyên Đán, with the offense chosen during a holiday period as most ARVN personnel were on leave. The purpose of the wide-scale offensive by the Hanoi Politburo was to trigger political instability in a belief that mass armed assault on urban centers would trigger defections and rebellions. The offensive was launched prematurely in the early morning hours of 30 January in large parts of the I and II Corps Tactical Zones of South Vietnam. This early attack allowed allied forces some time to prepare defensive measures. When the main operation began during the early morning hours of 31 January, the offensive was countrywide; eventually more than 80,000 PAVN/VC troops struck more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of 44 provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of 245 district towns and the southern capital. The offensive was the largest military operation conducted by either side up to that point in the war. (Full article...) List of selected articles Daisy (advertisement) Lyndon B. Johnson Muhammad Ali Vince Lombardi Janis Joplin Jim Morrison The Doors Grateful Dead Big Brother and the Holding Company Jefferson Airplane Summer of Love Woodstock March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Civil Rights Act of 1964 Cuban Missile Crisis Joan Baez The Allman Brothers Band Brian Jones Bill Wyman Charlie Watts Ian Stewart (musician) Ronnie Wood Counterculture of the 1960s Folk rock Raga rock Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Barry Miles Northeast blackout of 1965 John F. Kennedy 1963 South Vietnamese coup Kwame Nkrumah Bay of Pigs Invasion Ken Kesey International Society for Krishna Consciousness Star Trek: The Original Series Deep Purple The Troubles Sharpeville massacre Vietnam War Gay liberation Assassination of John F. Kennedy Manson Family British Invasion Space Race Cultural Revolution Berlin Wall Mexican Movement of 1968 Monterey Pop Festival Selma to Montgomery marches 1964 Brazilian coup d'état 1964 Alaska earthquake Civil rights movement The Late Late Show (Irish talk show) Yellow Submarine (film) Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Second-wave feminism Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War Jerry Garcia Death of Marilyn Monroe Eric Clapton Timothy Leary The Graduate The Pink Panther Dr. Strangelove The Feminine Mystique National Organization for Women The Population Bomb Sean Connery The Girl from Ipanema 1960s in fashion 1960s in music Black is beautiful 1960s in jazz 1960 United States presidential election Hubert Humphrey Barry Goldwater 1964 United States presidential election 1968 United States presidential election 1960 Winter Olympics 1960 Summer Olympics 1964 Winter Olympics 1964 Summer Olympics 1968 Winter Olympics 1968 Summer Olympics More Did you know (auto generated) ... that the City and Guilds of London Institute developed the City & Guilds Computer virtual machine as part of their 1960s teaching materials? ... that Japanese actress Junko Ikeuchi was known as the "Queen of TV Dramas" from the 1960s to the 1980s? ... that Patricia Davies and Jean Argles, two sisters who signed the Official Secrets Act as World War II codebreakers, did not find out about each other's top-secret work until the 1960s? ... that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artist Robert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-garde funk and 17th-century Dutch realism? ... that Suzie Zuzek's impactful 1960s and 1970s textile designs for Lilly Pulitzer dresses were recovered from under floorboards? ... that the Konzerthalle in Bad Salzuflen, an example of spa architecture in the 1960s, is one of the regular venues of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie? 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