Below is a lost of significant events of the 60's and 70's. If you would like to add an event, particularly if it affected  the Port Washington area please let Gary Tucker know so it can be included in this list.

1960s

• 1960 The Cold War divides East and West, U-2 incident sparks deterioration in relations between superpowers; Year of Africa. Independence of Somalia, Togo and the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Congo Crisis. Mau Mau Uprising ends; first manned descent to the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench; construction of the firstlaser; The Beatles is formed in Liverpool (NAME FIRST BEATLES SONG?)
• 1961: Great Leap Forward ends in China after the deaths of roughly 20 million people. Building of the Berlin Wall; first human spaceflight
• 1962: Cuban missile crisis; Algerian war ends with the independence of Algeria; The Beatles' first record (LIST SOME SONGS). Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation begins. Sino-Indian War. Second Vatican Council is opened by Pope John XXIII.
• 1963: Independence of Kenya; creation of Malaysia; Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" at the March on Washington. Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Launch of the firstgeostationary satellite. Paul VI becomes Pope
• 1964: Independence of Malta, Malawi and Tanzania; Civil Rights Act of 1964 abolishes segregation in the USA. Colombian armed conflict begins. First close-up images of Mars
• 1965: Deaths of Winston Churchill and Malcolm X. Anti-Communist purge in Indonesia kills up to 500,000 people. Second Indo-Pakistani War. Second Vatican Council is closed by Pope Paul VI.
• 1966: Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation ends. China's Cultural Revolution begins. Independence of Lesotho, Botswana and Barbados.
• 1967: Summer of Love; Six Day War.
• 1968: Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy during the Poor People's Campaign. Prague Spring crushed by Eastern Bloc military intervention. May 1968 protests inFrance. The Troubles begin in Northern Ireland.
• 1969: Moon landings; Woodstock festival; creation of ARPANET, the earliest incarnation of the Internet. Muammar Gaddafi overthrows King Idris of Libya in a Coup d'état and establishes theLibyan Arab Republic.

[edit]1970s

• 1970: Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Polish 1970 protests. Cambodian Civil War begins. Ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Containerisationadopted globally, massively boosting global trade. Maiden flight of the Boeing 747. Bhola Cyclone kills 500,000 people in East Pakistan. Deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. FLQ seizes hostages, causing Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau of Canada to issue the War Measures Act
• 1971: Bangladesh Liberation War ends in independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan and precipitates Third Indo-Pakistani War. Internment begins in Northern Ireland. Invention of themicrochip. Idi Amin comes to power in Uganda
• 1972: Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday; First Sudanese Civil War ends. Martial law declared in the Philippines by President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
• 1973: Beginning of the Watergate scandal. The Supreme Court of the United States decides Roe v. Wade. Death of Pablo Picasso. First close-up images of Jupiter
• 1974: Turkish occupation of Cyprus. Carnation Revolution in Portugal begins transition to democracy. First close-up images of Mercury. Discovery of "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis) in Ethiopia's Olduvai Gorge. World population reaches 4 billion.
• 1975: End of the Vietnam War; deaths of Francisco Franco and Dmitri Shostakovich. Cambodian Civil War ends with victory for the Khmer Rouge. The Killing Fields murders begin. First Cricket World Cup hosted.
• 1976: First outbreak of the Ebola virus. Death of Mao Zedong. End of Cultural Revolution. Steve Jobs finishes his first significant invention, Apple I.
• 1977: Introduction of the first mass-produced personal computers; launch of the Voyager spacecraft, currently the most distant man-made objects in the universe. Queen Alia of Jordan is killed in helicopter crash.
• 1978: Invention of artificial insulin; discovery of Pluto's moon Charon. Independence of Tuvalu. Birth of the first test-tube baby. Cambodian-Vietnamese War begins. Afghan Civil War begins.Deng Xiaoping commences Economic reform in the People's Republic of China. Spanish transition to democracy is completed. John Paul I and then John Paul II become Pope.
• 1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Revolution and Iran hostage crisis; Shah Reza Pahlavi forced into exile. Arrival of Pope John Paul II in Poland, eventually sparking the Solidarity movement. First space station, Skylab, is launched. First close-up images of Saturn. Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Implementation of China's One child policy. Idi Amin exiled from Uganda. Smallpox eradicated. Cambodian-Vietnamese War ends with the overthrow of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime. 1.7 million people known to have been murdered in The Killing Fields. Sino-Vietnamese War. Nicaraguan Revolution.