1960s, the Glossary
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969.[1]
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860 relations: A Hard Day's Night (film), Abbie Hoffman, Academy Awards, Adam West, Aegean Sea, African Americans, Agatha Christie, Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Alan Bates, Alaska, Albert Finney, Aldo Moro, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Dubček, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Algeria, Algerian War, Algorithm, Allen Ginsberg, American League, American Motors Corporation, American Pie (song), Anarchism, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrew Young, Andy Griffith, Andy Warhol, Angela Lansbury, Ann-Margret, Anna Karina, Anne Bancroft, Anne Baxter, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Franciosa, Anthony Perkins, Anthony Quinn, Apollo 1, Apollo 11, Apollo 8, Aretha Franklin, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Arnold Palmer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ARPANET, Art Blakey, Arthur Miller, AstroTurf, Atlantic City, New Jersey, ... Expand index (810 more) »
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A Hard Day's Night (film)
A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 musical comedy film starring the English rock band the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania.
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Abbie Hoffman
Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven.
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
Adam West
William West Anderson (September 19, 1928 – June 9, 2017), known as Adam West, was an American actor.
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed 30 films in a career spanning over five decades.
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.
Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
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Albert Finney
Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor.
Aldo Moro
Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro (23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean and French avant-garde filmmaker.
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Alexander Dubček
Alexander Dubček (27 November 1921 – 7 November 1992) was a Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) (de facto leader of Czechoslovakia) from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the Federal Assembly from 1989 to 1992 following the Velvet Revolution.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, airing on CBS and NBC, alternately, between 1955 and 1965.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algerian War
The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence)الثورة الجزائرية al-Thawra al-Jaza'iriyah; Guerre d'Algérie (and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France.
Algorithm
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.
American League
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is the younger of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada.
American Motors Corporation
American Motors Corporation (AMC; commonly referred to as American Motors) was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company on May 1, 1954.
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American Pie (song)
"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (p 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin.
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Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist.
Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.
Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British and American actress.
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941), credited as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish actress, singer, and dancer with a career spanning seven decades.
Anna Karina
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; 22 September 1940 – 14 December 2019) Le Monde.
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress and director.
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series.
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was a British writer and composer.
Anthony Franciosa
Anthony George Franciosa (né Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career.
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Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, director, and singer.
Anthony Quinn
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.
Apollo 1
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
Apollo 8
Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN;; Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975.
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Arnold Palmer
Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action films.
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ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.
Art Blakey
Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater.
AstroTurf
AstroTurf is an American subsidiary of SportGroup that produces artificial turf for playing surfaces in sports.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress.
Automated teller machine
An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, funds transfers, balance inquiries or account information inquiries, at any time and without the need for direct interaction with bank staff.
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Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
B. B. King
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Ba'ath Party
The Arab Socialist Baʿth Party (also anglicized as Ba'ath in loose transcription; البعث العربي الاشتراكي) was a political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bīṭār, and associates of Zakī al-ʾArsūzī.
Baby boomers
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. 1960s and baby boomers are 20th century.
Barbra Streisand
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.
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Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964.
BASIC
BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S.
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Bee Gees
The Bee Gees --> were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.
Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist.
Big Joe Turner
Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.
Bikini
A bikini is a two-piece swimsuit primarily worn by women that features one piece on top that covers the breasts, and a second piece on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but usually exposing the navel, and the back generally covering the intergluteal cleft and some or all of the buttocks.
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Bill Cosby
William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, spokesman, and media personality.
Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, and created the bluegrass music genre.
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter.
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman.
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") is an American jazz rock music group founded in New York City in 1967, noted for a combination of brass with rock instrumentation.
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Bo Diddley
Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known professionally as Bo Diddley, was an American guitarist and singer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.
Bob Crane
Robert Edward Crane (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American actor, drummer, radio personality, and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS situation comedy Hogan's Heroes.
Bob Hayes
Robert Lee Hayes (December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002), nicknamed "Bullet Bob", was an American sprinter and professional football player.
Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
Bobby Bland
Robert Calvin Bland (born Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer.
Bobby Charlton
Sir Robert Charlton (11 October 1937 – 21 October 2023) was an English professional footballer who played as an attacking-midfielder, left-winger or centre-forward.
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American musician, songwriter, and actor.
Bobby Robson
Sir Robert William Robson (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and football manager.
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
Bonanza
Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973.
Bonnie and Clyde (film)
Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical neo-noir crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
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Boston Celtics
The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer while attempting to marry for money.
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Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer.
Brian Epstein
Brian Samuel Epstein (19 September 1934 – 27 August 1967) was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967.
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist.
Bringing It All Back Home
Bringing It All Back Home (known as Subterranean Homesick Blues in some European countries; sometimes also spelled Bringin' It All Back Home) is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in March1965 by Columbia Records.
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British Invasion
The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor.
Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.
Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music.
Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and film producer.
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor and icon of 1970s American popular culture.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman.
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.
Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
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Canadian Bill of Rights
The Canadian Bill of Rights (Déclaration canadienne des droits) is a federal statute and bill of rights enacted by the Parliament of Canada on August 10, 1960.
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Canadian Confederation
Canadian Confederation (Confédération canadienne) was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation, called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867.
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Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020) was an American actor, stand-up comedian, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned seven decades.
Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American anthropologist and writer.
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Carlos Santana
Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the rock band Santana.
Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American retired actress.
Cary Grant
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor.
Cassette tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve, is a French actress, producer, and model.
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CDC 6600
The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation.
Charge-coupled device
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors.
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Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour (born Charles Aznavourian, 22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was a French singer of Armenian ancestry, as well as a lyricist, actor and diplomat.
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Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.
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Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
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Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s.
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author.
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans.
Chicano
Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans who have a non-Anglo self-image, embracing their Mexican Native ancestry.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Chinese culture
Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, originating thousands of years ago.
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.
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Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer.
Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American singer and dancer.
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.
Chuck Norris
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940) is an American martial artist and actor.
Cicely Tyson
Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson (December 19, 1924January 28, 2021) was an American actress known for her portrayal of strong African-American women.
Cilla Black
Priscilla Maria Veronica White (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer and television presenter.
Cinéma vérité
Cinéma vérité (truth cinema; "truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda.
Cinema of Italy
The cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors.
Cinema of Japan
The, also known domestically as, has a history that spans more than 100 years.
Cinema of Poland
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority).
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901November 16, 1960) was an American film actor.
Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.
Claudia Cardinale
Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale (born 15 April 1938), known as Claudia Cardinale, is a Tunisian-born Italian actress.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British singer and actor.
Cliff Robertson
Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades.
Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director.
Colonialism
Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.
Combined oral contraceptive pill
The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women.
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Computer mouse
A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.
Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.
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Conscription
Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.
Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.
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Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance.
Coronation Street
Coronation Street (colloquially referred to as Corrie) is a British television soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
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Cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe.
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Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.
Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
Country rock
Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country.
Cream (band)
Cream were a British rock band formed in London in 1966.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly abbreviated as CCR or simply Creedence, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.
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Cultural impact of the Beatles
The English rock band the Beatles, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are commonly regarded as the foremost and most influential band in popular music history.
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Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
See 1960s and Dallas
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; דוד־דניאל קאַמינסקי; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer.
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema.
David Niven
James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist.
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian.
Debbie Reynolds
Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman.
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music.
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Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director.
Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist.
Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen.
Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular black female recording artists of the 1950s.
See 1960s and Dinah Washington
Dion DiMucci
Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer and songwriter.
Dionne Warwick
Marie Dionne Warwick (born Warrick; December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host.
Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter.
Disc golf
Disc golf, also known as frisbee golf, is a flying disc sport in which players throw a disc at a target; it is played using rules similar to golf.
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
Doctor Zhivago (film)
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak.
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Dog Star Man
Dog Star Man is a series of short experimental films, all directed by Stan Brakhage, featuring Jane Wodening.
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, known primarily for her decades-long career in country music.
Don Knotts
Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924February 24, 2006) was an American actor and comedian.
Don Rickles
Donald Jay Rickles (May 8, 1926 – April 6, 2017) was an American actor and stand-up comedian.
Don Siegel
Donald Siegel (October 26, 1912 – April 20, 1991) was an American film and television director and producer.
Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor.
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Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor.
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Dont Look Back
Look Back is a 1967 American documentary film directed by D. A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in England.
Doris Day
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer.
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel (. Random House Unabridged Dictionary. in the Webster's Dictionary March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist.
Dr. Strangelove
Dr.
DTMF
Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone equipment and other communications devices and switching centers.
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Dual in-line package
In microelectronics, a dual in-line package (DIP or DIL) is an electronic component package with a rectangular housing and two parallel rows of electrical connecting pins.
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Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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East Berlin
East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990.
East Germany
East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper.
Economy of the United States
The United States is a highly developed/advanced mixed economy.
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Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.
Ed White (astronaut)
Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).
Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893January 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage and screen, who was popular during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Eisaku Satō
was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972.
Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Jean Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013) was an American actress.
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968.
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Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City.
Elia Kazan
Elias Kazantzoglou (Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου,; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan, was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades.
Ethnic stereotype
An ethnic stereotype or racial stereotype involves part of a system of beliefs about typical characteristics of members of a given ethnic group, their status, societal and cultural norms.
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Etta James
Jamesetta Hawkins (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer and songwriter who performed in various genres, including gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, and soul.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.
Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress of film, theatre, radio and television.
Expo 67
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 29, 1967.
Faces (1968 film)
Faces is a 1968 American drama film written, produced, and directed by John Cassavetes.
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Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California.
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American singer-songwriter and pianist.
Faye Dunaway
Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress.
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
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Ferenc Puskás
Ferenc Puskás (né Purczeld; 1 April 1927 – 17 November 2006) was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
Flag of Canada
The National Flag of Canada (Drapeau national du Canada), often referred to simply as the Canadian flag, consists of a red field with a white square at its centre in the ratio of, in which is featured a stylized, red, 11-pointed maple leaf charged in the centre.
Folk rock
Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.
Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Ford GT40
The Ford GT40 is a 1960s high-performance endurance racing car designed and built for and by the Ford Motor Company "Ford GT" (for Grand Touring) project, an effort to compete in European long-distance sports car races, against Scuderia Ferrari, which had won the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race from 1960 to 1965.
Forever Changes
Forever Changes is the third studio album by the American rock band Love, released on November 1, 1967, by Elektra Records.
Forty-seven rōnin
The revenge of the, also known as the or Akō vendetta, is a historical event in Japan in which a band of rōnin (lordless samurai) avenged the death of their master on 31 January 1703.
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.
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Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II (March 14, 1928 – November 7, 2023) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman.
Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel ''Dune'' and its five sequels.
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson (August 31, 1935 – February 7, 2019) was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for five teams over 21 seasons: the Cincinnati Reds (1956–1965), Baltimore Orioles (1966–1971), Los Angeles Dodgers (1972), California Angels (1973–1974), and Cleveland Indians (1974–1976).
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter.
Fred Gwynne
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 – July 2, 1993) was an American actor, artist, and author widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? (as Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (as Herman Munster), as well as his later film roles in The Cotton Club, Pet Sematary, and My Cousin Vinny.
Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor.
Frisbee
A frisbee (pronounced), also called a flying disc or simply a disc, is a gliding toy or sporting item that is generally made of injection-molded plastic and roughly in diameter with a pronounced lip.
Gang of Four
The Gang of Four was a Maoist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor.
Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.
Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction franchise Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer.
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Gene Vincent
Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American rock and roll musician who pioneered the style of rockabilly.
Geoff Hurst
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.
George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor, director and producer.
George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
George Jones
George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter.
George Peppard
George Peppard (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor.
George Wallace
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and judge who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms.
Georgy Girl
Georgy Girl is a 1966 British black-and-white romantic comedy film directed by Silvio Narizzano and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, and Rachel Kempson (Redgrave's mother).
Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924June 13, 1987) was an American actress.
Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz.
See 1960s and Gilligan's Island
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips were an American R&B, soul, and funk family music group from Atlanta, Georgia, that remained active on the music charts and performing circuit for over three decades starting from the early 1950s.
See 1960s and Gladys Knight & the Pips
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor.
Glynis Johns
Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (5 October 1923 – 4 January 2024) was a British actress.
Gordon Banks
Gordon Banks (30 December 1937 – 12 February 2019) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit.
Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982), also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982.
Gram Parsons
Ingram Cecil Connor III (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973), known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist.
Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
See 1960s and Graphical user interface
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.
Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and 1965.
Green Revolution
The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
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Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Grenoble
Grenoble (or Grainóvol; Graçanòbol) is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose.
See 1960s and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Gulf of Tonkin incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
See 1960s and Gulf of Tonkin incident
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.
Gus Grissom
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original men, the Mercury Seven, selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space.
Guts (flying disc game)
Guts or disc guts (sometimes guts Frisbee in reference to the trademarked brand name) is a disc game inspired by dodgeball, involving teams throwing a flying disc (rather than balls) at members of the opposing team.
See 1960s and Guts (flying disc game)
Hank Aaron
Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder and designated hitter who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976.
Hank Snow
Hank Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) born as Clarence Eugene was a Canadian-American country music guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera was an American animation studio and production company, which was active from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001.
Hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976.
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s.
Hayato Ikeda
was a Japanese bureaucrat and later politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964.
Hays Code
The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
See 1960s and Heavy metal music
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.
High School (1968 film)
High School is a 1968 American documentary film by Frederick Wiseman that shows a typical day for students and faculty at a Pennsylvanian high school during the late 1960s.
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High-speed rail
High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilizing trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.
Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records.
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Hilo, Hawaii
Hilo is the largest settlement in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States, which encompasses the Island of Hawaii, and is a census-designated place (CDP).
Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world.
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Hispanic
The term Hispanic (hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad broadly.
History of the People's Republic of China (1949–1976)
The time period in China from the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 until Mao's death in 1976 is commonly known as Maoist China and Red China.
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Horst Buchholz
Horst Werner Buchholz (4 December 1933 – 3 March 2003) was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002.
Houston Astros
The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston.
How the West Was Won (film)
How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film directed by Henry Hathaway (who directs three out of the five chapters involving the same family), John Ford and George Marshall, produced by Bernard Smith, written by James R. Webb, and narrated by Spencer Tracy.
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Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.
Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist.
Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969.
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author.
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Hypertext
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access.
Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner were an American musical duo consisting of husband and wife Ike Turner and Tina Turner.
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IMAX
IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation or Borneo confrontation (simply known as Konfrontasi in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore) was an armed conflict from 1963 to 1966 that stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of the state of Malaysia from the Federation of Malaya.
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Industrial robot
An industrial robot is a robot system used for manufacturing.
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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter.
Innsbruck
Innsbruck (Austro-Bavarian) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria.
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Iron Butterfly
Iron Butterfly is an American rock band formed in San Diego, California, in 1966.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media.
Jack Albertson
Harold "Jack" Albertson (June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981) was an American actor, dancer and singer who also performed in vaudeville.
Jack Brabham
Sir John Arthur Brabham (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver who was Formula One World Champion in,, and.
Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton (8 May 193510 July 2020) was an English professional footballer and manager who played as a centre-back.
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor.
Jack Nicklaus
Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940), nicknamed "the Golden Bear", is a retired American professional golfer and golf course designer.
Jack Ruby
Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; March 25, 1911January 3, 1967) was an American nightclub owner who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was accused of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Jackie Gleason
John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987), known as Jackie Gleason, was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One".
Jackie Wilson
Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American singer of the 1950s and 1960s.
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff,; 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982) was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter.
Jakarta
Jakarta, officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia.
James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician.
James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor who was featured in more than 70 films, largely action roles, and made 100 television appearances during a 45-year career.
James Garner
James Scott Garner (né Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor.
James Mason
James Neville Mason (15 May 190927 July 1984) was an English actor.
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement).
James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor.
Jan and Dean
Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940).
Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin (14 December 1946 – 16 July 2023) was a British and French actress and singer.
Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress and activist.
Janet Leigh
Jeanette Helen Morrison (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress.
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter.
Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)
Jason and the Argonauts (working title: Jason and the Golden Fleece) is a 1963 independent fantasy adventure film distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jean Seberg
Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938August 30, 1979) was an American actress.
Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer.
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (9 April 19336 September 2021) was a French actor.
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Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American pianist, singer and songwriter.
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian and entertainer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" throughout the United States.
Jerry Rubin
Jerry Clyde Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and early 1970s.
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967.
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Jim Clark
James Clark OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British racing driver from Scotland who won two Formula One World Championships in 1963 and 1965.
Jim Hines
James Ray Hines (September 10, 1946 – June 3, 2023) was an American track and field athlete and National Football League (NFL) player, who held the 100-meter world record for 15 years.
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician and producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
Jimmy Reed
Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter.
Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.
Joan Collins
Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author and columnist.
Joanne Woodward
Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American retired actress.
Joaquín Balaguer
Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (1 September 1906 – 14 July 2002) was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer.
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Jochen Rindt
Karl Jochen Rindt (18 April 1942 – 5 September 1970) was a German-born racing driver who spent most of his life in Austria and competed as an Austrian.
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that featured expressive body movements.
John Bonham
John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
John Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was a Greek-American filmmaker and actor.
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.
John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer.
John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films.
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John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.
John Paul Jones (musician)
John Paul Jones (born John Baldwin; 3 January 1946), is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.
John Surtees
John Norman Surtees, (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017) was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver.
John Wayne
Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.
Johnny Carson
John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television personality, comedian, writer and producer best known as the host of NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992).
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited with having brought rock and roll to France.
Johnny Unitas
John Constantine Unitas (May 7, 1933 – September 11, 2002) was an American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Colts.
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Harshman Winters (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist.
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Joni Mitchell
Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.
José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer.
Joseph Losey
Joseph Walton Losey III (January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, and dancer.
Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.
Julie Christie
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress.
Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar (born Julia Chalene Newmeyer, August 16, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles.
June Foray
June Foray (born June Lucille Forer; September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American voice actress and radio personality, best known as the voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Lucifer from Disney's Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Granny from the Warner Bros.
Kansas City Royals
The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers.
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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades.
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Katy Jurado
María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García (16 January 1924 – 5 July 2002), known professionally as Katy Jurado, was a Mexican actress.
Ken Kesey
Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure.
Keynesian economics
Keynesian economics (sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output and inflation.
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Kim Novak
Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American retired film and television actress and painter.
King Crimson
King Crimson were an English-based progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London.
Kipchoge Keino
Kipchoge Hezekiah Keino (born 17 January 1940) is a retired Kenyan track and field athlete.
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker.
Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.
La Jetée
La Jetée is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the Left Bank artistic movement.
Laotian Civil War
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.
LaserDisc
The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as "DiscoVision") in the United States in 1978.
Last Year at Marienbad
Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad), released in the United Kingdom as Last Year in Marienbad, is a 1961 French New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
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Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic biographical adventure drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom (also known as Revolt in the Desert).
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.
Led Zeppelin (album)
Led Zeppelin (sometimes referred to as Led Zeppelin I) is the debut studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin II is the second studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 22 October 1969 in the United States and on 31 October 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.
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Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor.
Lee Remick
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer.
Lee Van Cleef
Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor.
Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist.
Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor and director, famed for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years.
Leonid Brezhnev
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.
Lesley Gore
Lesley Sue Goldstein (May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015), better known with her maternal surname (adopted by her family after her birth) as Lesley Gore, was an American singer and songwriter.
Leslie Caron
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (born 1 July 1931) is a French and American actress and dancer.
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen (February 11, 1926November 28, 2010) was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.
Lev Yashin
Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Лев Иванович Яшин; 22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Soviet professional footballer considered by many to have been the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game.
Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein (Russian: Лейб Мильштейн); September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was an American film director.
LGBT movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society.
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Life (magazine)
Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.
Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.
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List of decades, centuries, and millennia
The list below includes links to articles with further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 15,000BC to AD3000.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter.
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films.
Lomé
Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census. Located on the Gulf of Guinea at the southwest corner of the country, with its entire western border along the easternmost edge of Ghana's Volta Region, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center, which includes an oil refinery.
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Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn (April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter.
Lorne Greene
Lorne Hyman Greene (born Lyon Himan Green; 12 February 1915 – 11 September 1987) was a Canadian actor, musician, singer and radio personality.
Lou Brock
Louis Clark Brock (June 18, 1939September 6, 2020) was an American professional baseball left fielder.
Lou Reed
Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter.
Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.
Louisiana
Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.
Love (band)
Love is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965.
LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), and known colloquially as acid or lucy, is a potent psychedelic drug.
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Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director, and screenwriter.
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Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain.
Luna 10
Luna 10 (or Lunik 10) was a 1966 Soviet lunar robotic spacecraft mission in the Luna program.
Luna 9
Luna 9 (Луна-9), internal designation Ye-6 No.13, was an uncrewed space mission of the Soviet Union's Luna programme.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was a British-American actress.
Magnavox Odyssey
The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
Mamo Wolde
Degaga "Mamo" Wolde (ማሞ ወልዴ.; 12 June 1932 – 26 May 2002) was an Ethiopian long distance runner who competed in track, cross-country, and road running events.
Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London and active between 1962 and 1969.
Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Maoism
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China.
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Maracaibo
Maracaibo (Marakaaya) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela.
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor and one of the country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century.
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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist.
Martha and the Vandellas
Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves & The Vandellas) were an American vocal girl group formed in Detroit in 1957.
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Martin Landau
Martin James Landau (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) was an American actor, acting coach, producer, and editorial cartoonist.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Marty Robbins
Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and NASCAR racing driver.
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and musician.
Mary Poppins (film)
Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.
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Mary Quant
Dame Barbara Mary Quant (11 February 1930 – 13 April 2023) was a British fashion designer and icon.
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was an Irish-born naturalized American actress and singer, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s.
Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor.
Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor.
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MC5
MC5 was an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan, in 1963.
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
Medicaid
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources.
Medicare (United States)
Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).
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Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years.
Mel Brooks
Melvin James Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans (mexicano-estadounidenses, mexico-americanos, or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of Mexican heritage.
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Mexico City
Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.
Mia Farrow
Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress and activist.
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor.
Michael Collins (astronaut)
Michael "Mike" Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module ''Columbia'' around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface.
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Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.
Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English actor and filmmaker.
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian director and filmmaker.
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Mickey Mantle
Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995), nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player.
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theatre director.
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Milwaukee Brewers
The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee.
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Mini
The Mini (developed as ADO15) is a small, two-door, four-seat car produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors, from 1959 until 2000.
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Minicomputer
A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors.
Miniskirt
A miniskirt (sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, separated as mini skirt, or sometimes shortened to simply mini) is a skirt with its hemline well above the knees, generally at mid-thigh level, normally no longer than below the buttocks; and a dress with such a hemline is called a minidress or a miniskirt dress.
Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis.
Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)
Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973, which was financed and filmed by Desilu Productions.
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Mitch Mitchell
John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 194612 November 2008)In his book about the Experience, Mitchell states he celebrated his 21st birthday while on tour on 9 July 1967, which makes his birth year 1946.
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the 1st and only President of Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
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Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.
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Montreal Expos
The Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal.
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Motown
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.
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Mount Fuji
is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of.
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist.
Muscle car
A muscle car is an American-made two-door sports coupe with a powerful engine, generally designed for high-performance driving.
My Three Sons
My Three Sons is an American television sitcom that aired from September 29, 1960, to April 13, 1972.
Nagra
Nagra is a brand of portable audio recorders produced from 1951 in Switzerland.
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Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.
Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles.
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.
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National League (baseball)
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon.
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer and songwriter.
Neutron star
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star.
New York Mets
The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.
Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.
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Ngô Đình Nhu
Ngô Đình Nhu (7 October 19102 November 1963; baptismal name Jacob) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngô Đình Diệm (or;; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 South Vietnamese coup.
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, photographed, and edited by George A. Romero, written by Romero and John Russo, produced by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.
See 1960s and Night of the Living Dead
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger and civil rights activist.
Nobusuke Kishi
was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960.
Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition.
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison (July 21, 1926 – January 20, 2024) was a Canadian filmmaker.
Nottingham
Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry.
Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif (عمر الشريف, born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub; 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West ("Once upon a time (there was) the West") is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, who co-wrote it with Sergio Donati based on a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (also known as 101 Dalmatians) is a 1961 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions with distribution by Buena Vista Distribution.
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Palmer Robertson (born November 24, 1938), nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Outer space
Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.
Paisley (design)
Paisley or paisley pattern is an ornamental textile design using the boteh (بته) or buta, a teardrop-shaped motif with a curved upper end.
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PAL
Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analog television.
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Pat Boone
Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, actor, television personality, and composer.
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 election.
Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor best known for his roles in television and film.
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Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American singer from the state of Virginia.
Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actor.
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
PDP-8
The PDP-8 is a family of 12-bit minicomputers that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
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Peace symbols
A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts.
Pedro Morales
Pedro Antonio Morales (October 22, 1942 – February 12, 2019) was a Puerto Rican professional wrestler.
Peggy Lee
Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Pelé
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), better known by his nickname Pelé, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
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Pet Sounds
Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966, by Capitol Records.
Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor.
Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor, singer and television director and producer.
Peter Finch
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio.
Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor, who was a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s.
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein,; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States.
Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an English stage and film actor.
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.
Petula Clark
Petula Clark CBE (born 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and songwriter.
Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American songwriter and protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer).
Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright.
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Politics of the United States
In the United States, politics functions within a framework of a constitutional federal republic.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (Ioannes XXIII; Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 1963.
Pope Paul VI
Pope Paul VI (Paulus VI; Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini,; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death on 6 August 1978.
Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Portuguese Mozambique
Portuguese Mozambique (Moçambique Portuguesa) or Portuguese East Africa (África Oriental Portuguesa) were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony.
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Prague Spring
The Prague Spring (Pražské jaro, Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
Procol Harum
Procol Harum were an English rock band formed in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, in 1967.
Programming language
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.
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Protest
A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public expression of objection, disapproval, or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one.
Psychedelia
Psychedelia usually refers to a style or aesthetic that is resembled in the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience produced by certain psychoactive substances.
Psychedelic drug
Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary mental states (known as psychedelic experiences or "trips") and a perceived "expansion of consciousness".
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Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as '''Boricuas''', but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.
Quebec Liberal Party
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; Parti libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec.
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Quiet Revolution
The Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) refers to a significant period of socio-political and socio-cultural transformation in French Canada, particularly in Quebec, following the election of 1960.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer.
Racial discrimination
Racial discrimination is any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their race, ancestry, ethnicity, and/or skin color and hair texture.
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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
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Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe, was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961.
Raquel Welch
Jo Raquel Welch (September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor known for his lengthy Hollywood film career and his title roles in television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
Remake
A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film".
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Richard Basehart
John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor.
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Richard Burton
Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.
Richard Harris
Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer.
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
Richard Petty
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most notably driving the No.
Ricky Nelson
Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985) was an American musician and actor.
Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.
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Robert Blake (actor)
Robert Blake (born Michael James Gubitosi; September 18, 1933 – March 9, 2023), billed early in his career as Mickey Gubitosi and Bobby Blake, was an American actor.
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Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker.
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.
Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter.
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American retired actor and filmmaker.
Robert Stack
Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack; January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was an American actor and television host.
Robert Vaughn
Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor and political activist, whose career in film, television and theatre spanned nearly six decades.
Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American filmmaker.
Roberto Clemente
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.
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Robin Gibb
Robin Hugh Gibb (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a British singer and songwriter.
Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor.
Rod Stewart
Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter.
Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British and American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across over 60 years.
Roger B. Chaffee
Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program.
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Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 192723 May 2017) was an English actor.
Roger Vadim
Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor.
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (born 18 August 1933) is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and convicted sex offender.
Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo e Giulietta) is a 1968 period romantic tragedy film, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare.
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Ronny & the Daytonas
Ronny & the Daytonas were an American surf rock group, whose members included John "Bucky" Wilkin (aka Ronny Dayton) (songwriting, guitar, vocals), Paul Jensen (vocals, guitar), Thomas Ramey (bass, guitar), Lynn Williams (drums), and Lee Kraft (guitar), with contributions from others such as Larry Butler (organ), Ronny Clark (studio guitarist), and Buzz Cason.
See 1960s and Ronny & the Daytonas
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
Rosemary Clooney
Rose M. Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress.
See 1960s and Rosemary Clooney
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (often simply referred to as Laugh-In) is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for six seasons from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network.
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Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his distinctive and powerful voice, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads.
Rubber Soul
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.
Sal Mineo
Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was an American actor.
Salesman (1969 film)
Salesman is a 1969 direct cinema documentary film, directed by brothers Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, about door-to-door Bible salesmen.
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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Sam Cooke
Samuel Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer and songwriter.
Sam Peckinpah
David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter.
Sammy Davis Jr.
Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, actor, comedian and dancer.
Samurai
were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.
San Diego Padres
The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego.
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Sanjuro
is a 1962 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune.
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer and pianist.
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.
Sean Connery
Sir Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor.
Seattle Pilots
The Seattle Pilots were an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington during the 1969 Major League Baseball season.
SECAM
SECAM, also written SÉCAM (Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire, French for color sequential with memory), is an analog color television system that was used in France, Russia and some other countries or territories of Europe and Africa.
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Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
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Sergei Korolev
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov,; Serhii Pavlovych Koroliov,; 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone (3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre.
Seven Samurai
is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film co-written, directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa.
Sexual revolution
The sexual revolution, also known as the sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the developed Western world from the 1960s to the 1970s.
See 1960s and Sexual revolution
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt.
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Sharon Tate
Sharon Marie Tate Polanski (Tate; January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress and model.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist.
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Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Shinkansen
The, colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan.
Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (born Marjory Ford; August 30, 1898October 16, 1992) was an American actress.
Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer.
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author.
See 1960s and Shirley MacLaine
Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American actor, comedian and writer.
Sideburns
Sideburns, sideboards, or side whiskers are facial hair grown on the sides of the face, extending from the hairline to run parallel to or beyond the ears.
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian–American actor, film director, and diplomat.
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel.
See 1960s and Simon & Garfunkel
Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (سِينَاء; سينا; Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.
Sino-Indian War
The Sino–Indian War, also known as the China–India War or the Indo–China War, was an armed conflict between China and India that took place from October to November 1962.
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967.
Sketchpad
Sketchpad (a.k.a. Robot Draftsman) is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012.
Sly and the Family Stone
Sly and the Family Stone was an American band originating from San Francisco, California.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
Solomon Burke
Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke (born James Solomon McDonald, March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s.
Sonny Rollins
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.
Sophia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States.
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Soyuz 1
Soyuz 1 (Союз 1, Union 1) was a crewed spaceflight of the Soviet space program.
Space Race
The Space Race (Космическая гонка) was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe.
See 1960s and Spaghetti Western
Spartacus (film)
Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas in the title role, a slave who leads a rebellion against Rome and the events of the Third Servile War.
See 1960s and Spartacus (film)
Stagflation
In economics, stagflation (or recession-inflation) is a situation in which the inflation rate is high or increasing, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high.
Stan Brakhage
James Stanley Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker.
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films" (he called his movies heavy dramas) and a liberal movie icon.
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.
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Steenbeck
Steenbeck is a company that manufactures flatbed editors.
Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television and radio personality, comedian, musician, composer, writer, and actor.
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.
Steve McQueen
Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor and racing driver.
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.
See 1960s and Steven Spielberg
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
Stokely Carmichael
Kwame Ture (born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement.
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Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor, known for his lengthy career in film and television.
Studebaker
Studebaker was an American wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana, with a building at 1600 Broadway, Times Square, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
Suharto
Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving President of Indonesia.
Sukarno
Sukarno (born Koesno Sosrodihardjo,, 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967.
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Surf music
Surf music (also known as surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.
Surrealistic Pillow
Surrealistic Pillow is the second studio album by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on February 1, 1967, by RCA Victor.
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Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the sixth album by the American rock band the Byrds and was released in August 1968 on Columbia Records.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Syncom
Syncom (for "synchronous communication satellite") started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were developed and manufactured by the Space and Communications division of Hughes Aircraft Company (now the Boeing Satellite Development Center).
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Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee (26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965) was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960.
Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists.
Teleconference
A teleconference or telecon is a live exchange of information among several people remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system.
Telly Savalas
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was an American actor.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American singer and television host who enjoyed success in the country and western, pop, and gospel musical genres.
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Terence Stamp
Terence Henry Stamp (born 22 July 1938) is an English actor.
Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
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The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom television series that was aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color.
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The Animals
The Animals (also billed as Animals & Friends and Eric Burdon and the Animals) are an English rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963.
The Apartment
The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond.
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971.
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The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1964.
The Day the Music Died
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Cedar Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.
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The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom created by Carl Reiner that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961, to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons.
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The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.
The Doors (album)
The Doors is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on January 4, 1967, by Elektra Records.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.
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The Flintstones
The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles.
The Four Seasons (band)
The Four Seasons is an American vocal quartet formed in 1960 in Newark, New Jersey.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally "The good, the ugly, the bad") is a 1966 Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly".
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew (film)
The Gospel According to St.
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The Graduate
The Graduate is a 1967 American independent romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College.
The Huckleberry Hound Show
The Huckleberry Hound Show is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and the second series produced by the studio following The Ruff and Reddy Show.
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The Jetsons
The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.
The Love Bug
The Love Bug (also known as Herbie the Love Bug) is a 1969 American sports adventure comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on the story "Car, Boy, Girl" by Gordon Buford.
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges.
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The Mamas & the Papas
The Mamas & the Papas (stylized as) was a folk-rock vocal group which recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological political thriller film directed and produced by John Frankenheimer.
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The Monkees
The Monkees were an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s.
The Moody Blues
The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in May 1964.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is the debut studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 4 August 1967 by EMI Columbia.
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The Righteous Brothers
The Righteous Brothers are an American musical duo originally formed by Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield but now comprising Medley and Bucky Heard.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.
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The Ronettes
The Ronettes were an American girl group from Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City.
The Seekers
The Seekers were an Australian folk-influenced pop group originally formed in Melbourne in 1962.
The Shirelles
The Shirelles were an American girl group formed in Passaic, New Jersey in 1957.
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.
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The Stooges
The Stooges, originally billed as the Psychedelic Stooges, and also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander.
The Supremes
The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.
The Temptations
The Temptations are an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s to mid 1970s.
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has been broadcast on NBC since 1954.
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The Troubles
The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut studio album by the American rock band The Velvet Underground in collaboration with the German singer Nico, released in March 1967 through Verve Records.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates.
The Zombies
The Zombies are an English rock band formed in St Albans in 1961.
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
Theodore Maiman
Theodore Harold Maiman (July 11, 1927 – May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser.
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.
Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs.
Title IX
Title IX is a landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Tlatelolco massacre
The Tlatelolco massacre (La Masacre de Tlatelolco) was a military massacre committed against the students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), and other universities in Mexico.
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Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa.
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Tokyo Bay
is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.
Tom Courtenay
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (born 25 February 1937) is an English actor.
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.
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Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.
Tommy (The Who album)
Tommy is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Who, released on 19 May 1969.
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer.
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Tony Hoare
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, also known as Tony Hoare or by his initials C. A. R. Hoare (born 11 January 1934) is a British computer scientist who has made foundational contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal verification, and concurrent computing.
Top Cat
Top Cat is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast in prime time on the ABC network.
Toshiro Mifune
was a Japanese actor and producer.
Trans World Airlines
Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001.
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Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.
True Grit (1969 film)
True Grit is a 1969 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, Glen Campbell as La Boeuf and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross.
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Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Twiggy
Dame Lesley Lawson (née Hornby; born 19 September 1949), widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer.
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Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate, originally known as ultimate frisbee, is a non-contact team sport played with a disc flung by hand.
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Uncrewed spacecraft
Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board.
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United Airlines
United Airlines, Inc. is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois.
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
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Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut.
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Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress.
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Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská (3 May 1942 – 30 August 2016) was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official.
Venera 3
Venera 3 (Венера-3 meaning Venus 3) was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus.
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
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Vespa
Vespa is an Italian brand of scooters and mopeds manufactured by Piaggio.
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VHS
The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).
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Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Vietnam veteran
A Vietnam veteran is an individual who performed active military, naval, or air service in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL).
Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying villains.
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
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Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.
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Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (Владимир Михайлович Комаров,; 16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut.
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Vostok 1
Vostok 1 (Восток, East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history.
Vostok 6
Vostok 6 (Восток-6, Orient 6 or East 6) was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Wacky Races (1968 TV series)
Wacky Races is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Heatter-Quigley Productions.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.
War
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
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Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
Wes Montgomery
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist.
West Bank
The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).
West Berlin
West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.
West Coast of the United States
The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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William Anders
William Alison Anders (17 October 1933 – 7 June 2024) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman.
William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor, who is best known for playing the original incarnation of the Doctor, in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who from 1963 to 1966; he reprised the role in 1972–1973.
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William Holden
William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.
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Willie Mays
Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country singer, guitarist and songwriter.
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman Chamberlain (August21, 1936 – October12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player.
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Woodstock
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock.
Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World War III
World War III (WWIII or WW3), also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945).
Yogi Berra
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born Lorenzo Pietro Berra; May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach.
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist.
Yul Brynner
Yuliy Borisovich Briner (Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian-born actor.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space.
Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s.
Zond 5
Zond 5 (lit) was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor (born Sári Gábor; February 6, 1917 – December 18, 2016) was a Hungarian-American socialite and actress. Her sisters were socialites and actresses Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor. Gabor competed in the 1933 Miss Hungary pageant, where she placed as second runner-up, and began her stage career in Vienna the following year.
1950s
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. 1960s and 1950s are 20th century.
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1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
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1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics (Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 (Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy.
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1960 United States presidential election
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
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1960 Winter Olympics
The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Valley (now known as Olympic Valley), California, United States.
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1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
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1962 FIFA World Cup
The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams.
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1964 Alaska earthquake
The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964.
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1964 Summer Olympics
The, officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
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1964 Winter Olympics
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (IX.) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 (Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964.
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1966 FIFA World Cup
The 1966 FIFA World Cup was the eighth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams.
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1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics (Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad (Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (México 1968), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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1968 Winter Olympics
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France.
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1969
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
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8-track cartridge
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.
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See also
1960s decade overviews
- 1960s
- 1960s in France
- 1960s in Ghana
- 1960s in Hong Kong
- 1960s in LGBT rights
- 1960s in Rhodesia
- 1960s in comics
- 1960s in fashion
- 1960s in film
- 1960s in jazz
- 1960s in music
- 1960s in sociology
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s
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