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| Pope Paul VI: Pope Paul VI is elected to the papacy. |
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| makes infamous statement "The chickens have come home to roost" about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censure him. |
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| Profumo Affair: The British Secretary of State for War has a relationship with a showgirl, and then lies when questioned about it before the House of Commons. When the truth came out, it led to his own resignation and undermined the credibility of the Prime Minister. |
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| President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas. |
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| In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin. |
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| A Vietnamese Communist, who served as President of Vietnam from 1954–1969. |
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| Former Vice President Nixon is elected in the 1968 presidential election of the United States. |
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| Space Race: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon. |
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| Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement. |
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| Political scandal involving a hotel break-in, eventually leading to President Nixon's resignation. |
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