1961 | North America • USA | Alan Shepard makes the first American space flight. |
1961 | North America • USA | Joseph Heller publishes Catch-22. |
1962 | North America • USA | Andy Warhol paints his Campbell's Soup Cans. |
1963 | North America • USA | Bob Dylan records Blowin' in the Wind |
1967 | North America • USA | The film The Graduate is released. |
1967 | South America • Columbia | Gabriel García Márquez publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude |
1969 | North America • USA | The Woodstock Music Festival |
1969 | North America • USA
| American astronauts (Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin) from Apollo 11 land on the moon whilst Michael Collins looks after the ship. (20 July 1969) |
1976 | Europe • Great Britain | The single Anarchy in the U.K. by the Sex Pistols attacks middle class attitudes of commercialism and punk rock influences music and fashion. |
1977 | North America • USA | The film Star Wars is released. |