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Fashion
Early 60's for women wore mini skirts and leather boots and men wore Paisley shirts and velvet trousers Later 60's from 1966 started the introduction of Psychedelic clothes with bright colors for both men and women and the age of the **Hippie** is born. Men started to wear hair longer and women identified with the hippie look by wearing skirts and dresses longer often known as Maxies and anything and everything had color including the body

This was the Decade of the **Smiley Face** found on anything and everything around the world including T Shirts, it's popularity was at it's peak in the mid to late 1960's and the skateboard




 * Both martin Luther King and John F Kennedy were assassinated during the 60's

Many believe the closest the world has come to a World Wide Nuclear War was in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis


 * Cash Dispenser** - 1969 Turkey by Luther Simjian
 * CCDs** - 1969 USA Charge Coupled Device - to capture image
 * Communication Satellite** - 1962 USA Telstar
 * Computer Mouse** - 1964 USA by Douglas Engelbart
 * Fibre Optics** - 1966 England by Charles Keo and George Hockham
 * Heart Pacemaker** - 1960 USA by Wilson Greatbatch
 * Human Space Travel** - 1961 Russia Yuri Gagarin - the first human in space
 * Hypertext** - 1965 USA for linking text
 * Internet** - 1969 USA US military
 * Kevlar** - 1966 USA by Stephanie Kwolek
 * Laser** - 1960 USA by Theodore Maiman
 * LEDs** - 1962 USA Light Emitting Diodes - used for displays
 * Manned Moon Landing** - 1969 USA Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walk on Moon
 * Moon Landing** - 1966 Russia Luna 9 lands softly on the Moon
 * Optical Disk** - 1965 USA by James Russell - now Compact Disk CD / DVD [|History of Hifi and Music Players and Media]
 * Portable Calculator** - 1967 USA Texas Instruments
 * Space Docking** - 1966 USA Gemini VIII docks with an orbiting satellite
 * Space Walk** - 1965 Russia Aleksei Leonov - first person outside space vehicle
 * Tape Cassette** - 1963 Netherlands
 * Venus Probe** - 1962 USA Mariner 2 - the first planetary probe
 * Weather Satellite** - 1960 USA Tiros I

The hippie movement endorsed drugs, rock music, mystic religions and sexual freedom. The Civil Rights movement made great changes in society in the 1960's. The birth control pill became widely available and abortion for cause was legalized in Colorado in 1967. In 1967, both abortion and artificial insemination became legal in some states. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.

1962

 * The audio [|cassette] invented.
 * The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
 * [|Spacewar], the first computer video game invented.
 * Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.

1969

 * The [|arpanet] (first internet) invented.
 * The [|artificial heart] invented.
 * The [|ATM] invented.
 * The [|bar-code scanner] is invented.



1967

 * The first handheld [|calculator] invented.

Popular and fads in the 1960s

﻿ **Mood Rings** **﻿** **Bellbottoms**         <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">
 * Granny Glasses**
 * <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">﻿ Go-Go boots**
 * <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">﻿ Lava Lamps**
 * <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">﻿ Hair Ironing**
 * <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">﻿ Smiley Faces**
 * <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">﻿ Tie Dye T-shirts**
 * The Twist **

<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">﻿The <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">surgeon general determined that smoking was a health hazard, and in 1965 required cigarette manufacturers to place warnings on all packages and in all ads

<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">The number of Hispanic Americans tripled during the decade and became recognized as an oppressed minority.

<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">John F. Kennedy was young and charismatic, and his brief reign as president was often called Camelot. He was <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.

<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">The Space Race, begun by the Soviets in 1957, was highlighted by Alan Shepard, the first American in space in 1961.

<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> The Beatles, from England, burst into popularity with innovative rock music that appealed to all ages.

<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">﻿1970's <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">

Both martin Luther King and John F Kennedy were assassinated during the 60's

<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">This was the Decade of the **Smiley Face** found on anything and everything around the world including T Shirts, it's popularity was at it's peak in the mid to late 1960's <span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">This was the start of the **skateboarding** era which was started by some surfing enthusiasts in California who were frustrated by the weather and put roller skates on the front and back end of wooden planks