1960s

1960s
The world population exceeds 3 billion. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon.

US President Kennedy was shot and movie theaters showed the first James Bond movie. The miniskirt appeared, Los Angeles hosted the first Super Bowl and Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison.

Marcia Brown's Once a Mouse won a Caldecott, John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.