1960s
1960
- Kennedy elected president
- Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho becomes one of the year’s most successful films
- NASA launches the first weather satellite
- The Pill goes on sale
- Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology

1961
- U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cub
- First episode of Songs Of praise
- Anti Castro exiles invade Cuba; they were either killed or captured.

1962
- Dr No begins the James Bong series
- First University Challenge aired on Granada TV
- Marilyn Monroe dies
- The first transatlantic television transmission occurs via the Telstar Satellite, making worldwide television and cable networks a reality
- Government regulations force studios out of the talent agency business

1963
- John F Kennedy assassinated
- Civil rights march – 200,000 blacks and whites held on Washington D.C
- Kenya achieves independence

1964
- Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment
- BBC2 Launch
- Launch of Top of the Pops
- Pirate” ships broadcast off English coast, challenge BBC monopoly

1965
- Vietnam War becomes first war to be televised
- British ban televised cigarette advertising
- Bill Cosby – first African American to headline a show
- Malcolm X shot
- Riots in Watts, LA
- Tomorrow’s world (BBC) – showcase on new inventions and technologies

1966
- England wins the world cup
- Psycho (1960) was deemed to violent for home viewing
- Insulin is first synthesized
- Xerox sells fax machine

1967
- Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut
- News at ten – first extended news programme on ITV
- Congress creates PBS
- First heart transplant

1968
- Martin Luther King assassinated
- First issue of Time Out
- Students riot in Paris – objecting to the apparent closure of a university
- Hollywood adopts an age based rating system

1969
- BBC1 and ITV begin broadcasting in colour
- Man lands on the moon
- Sesame Street
- beginning of Gay Rights movement
- US president is Nixon