1960 Overview | Party Ideas | 1960 Movies | 1960 Film Stars | 1960 Pop Stars

Overview:

1960
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
First Televised Presidential Debates
Lasers Invented

1961
Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Wall Built
Peace Corps Founded
Soviets Launch First Man in Space

1962
Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
Cuban Missile Crisis
First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring

1963
Betty Friedan Publishes the Feminine Mystique
JFK Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech

1964
Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued

1965
Japan's Bullet Train Opens
Los Angeles Riots
Malcolm X Assassinated
New York City Great Blackout
U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam

1966
Black Panther Party Established
Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
Star Trek T.V. Series Airs

1967
Che Guevara Killed
First Heart Transplant
First Super Bowl
Six-Day War in the Middle East
Stalin's Daughter Defects
Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch

1968
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Prague Spring
Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
Tet Offensive

1969
ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
Charles Manson and "Family" Arrested
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
Rock 'n' Roll Concert at Woodstock
Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
Sesame Street First Airs
Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO

1960 Overview | Party Ideas | 1960 Movies | 1960 Film Stars | 1960 Pop Stars

Party Ideas:

Invitations:
One of the most important things about organising a party is the invitation. It’s the window to your party and sets the whole mood. It needs to be novel, eye catching and full of content relevant to your party.

Search the internet for images from the 60's and use these to make your invitation.

A novel invitation is to pick up some old vinyl 45’s from car boot sales and replace the paper in the center of the record with your invitation, very cheap and great fun.

Atmosphere:
Place a groovy welcome to the 60s sign in colorful bubble letters at the entrance

Find old newspapers from the 60s

Try a little 60s trivia, assemble a dozen or so questions, print them of and place them on the tables

Post images on the walls of scenes from the 60’s

Research 60's drinks on the Internet.

1960 Overview | Party Ideas | 1960 Movies | 1960 Film Stars | 1960 Pop Stars

1960's Movies:

• Sons And Lovers
• Elmer Gantry
• The Apartment
• The Entertainer
• Inherit The Wind
• Fanny
• The Hustler
• The Mark
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Divorce Italian Style
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lilies of the Field
• Tom Jones
• This Sporting Life
• My Fair Lady
• Becket
• Becket
• Zorba The Greek
• Dr Strangelove
• The Graduate

1960 Overview | Party Ideas | 1960 Movies | 1960 Film Stars | 1960 Pop Stars

1960's Film Stars:

• Burt Lancaster
• Trevor Howard
• Jack Lemmon
• Laurence Olivier
• Spencer Tracy
• Charles Boyer
• Paul Newman
• Stuart Whitman
• Gregory Peck
• Burt Lancaster
• Marcello Mastrantonio
• Peter O Toole
• Sidney Poitier
• Albert Finney
• Richard Harris
• Rex Harrison
• Richard Burton
• Dustin Hoffman
• Anthony Quinn
• Peter Sellers

1960 Overview | Party Ideas | 1960 Movies | 1960 Film Stars | 1960 Pop Stars

1960's Pop Stars:

• Andy Williams
• Bobby Darin
• Brenda Lee
• Connie Francis
• Diana Ross & The Supremes
• Dionne Warwick
• Four Tops
• Frank Sinatra
• Hermans Hermits
• Lulu
• Neil Diamond
• Petula Clark
• Procol Harum
• Ray Charles
• Roy Orbison
• The Beach Boys
• The Beatles
• The Monkees
• The Rolling Stones
• Tom Jones

Music:
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Novelties:
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