Questions tagged [1960s]
Refering to the period of 1960 A.D to 1969 A.D in the Gregorian calendar.
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US agencies phone numbers in the 1960s-1970s
For those who have a memory of it, I would like to understand the structure of the numbering plans and phone numbers of US agencies in the 1960s-1970s.
In an old congressional phonebook from 1971
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What is the first (black,red,yellow) flag on this poster?
In the poster below (dated around 1960), I can identify all flags except the very first one. It is a tricolor flag with vertical stripes, being black, red and yellow/gold from left to right. ...
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Are there any first-person subjective reports from individuals exposed to Agent BZ?
Agent BZ is a chemical weapon explored by the US military which induces overwhelming hallucinogenic states.
While there's a fair amount of data on the history of this subjects and the rough ...
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Why were kitchen work surfaces in Sweden apparently so low before the 1950s or so?
Watching old "newsreel"-like films from the 1950s and 1960s, and seeing this in old comics and from other Swedish sources, I have formed the perception that many/most/all kitchens in Sweden, ...
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When did "JFK" become a recognizable initialism for John F. Kennedy?
I assume that by the time he ran for President in 1960, every newspaper reader would have recognized the initialism "JFK" as a reference to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But what about in 1957, ...
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Who was the PAF aviator nicknamed as "8-Pass Charlie" by IAF in Indo-Pakistan 1965 War?
Indian Airforce veterans who were posted at Adampur IAF airbase make special note of the aviator nicknamed '8-pass Charlie'. He was supposedly given the epithet by the Indians who were apparently ...
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Were hippies in the USA "refused ambulance service" for some reason?
In one episode of The Simpsons, Homer buys an old ambulance from the 1960s (I think). This is very vague in my memory, but at some point, somebody says something along the lines of:
Many hippies were ...
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Was there a well-known controversy about homosexuality in the U.S. State Department in the late 1960's?
In 1969, a film called Don't Drink the Water was released. It was based on a play by Woody Allen, and Woody remade it in 1994. In the 1969 version, an American family called the Hollanders is touring ...
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Did Robert F. Kennedy call Police Review boards a "sinister movement against law enforcement" in the 1960's?
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On multiple Fraternal Order of Police websites, they state that Robert F. Kennedy was opposed to Police Review boards and called them a "sinister movement against law enforcement" ...
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Did teenagers in the USA in the 1960s and 1950s really engage in dangerous, reckless driving to this extent?
My general perception of the 1960s in the USA, and possibly also the late 1950s, other than "drugs and hippies", is that the youth constantly was driving around in their cars, racing, daring and ...
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What does this 1960 West German political cartoon mean?
I have recently seen a [caricature][1] in which a blindfolded man goes along a cliff. The caption was "The German citizen in the 1960's". I thought it may have something to do with the economy, but in ...
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Why did Robert F. Kennedy loathe Lyndon B. Johnson?
Robert Kennedy despised Lyndon Johnson but it's not clear to me why.
Johnson was a dutiful vice-president and honored JFK's legacy by passing the civil rights act that Kennedy would likely have been ...
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Strong movement to deregulate professions in the 1960's?
In chapter 11, page 209, of his book "predictably irrational", Dan Ariely writes:
"The word profession comes from the Latin professus, meaning "affirmed
publicly." Professions started somewhere ...
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Was California's request for a Mexico border fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Colorado River acted upon?
In the 1965 California legislative session, a joint resolution (chapter 132, No. 44) was passed imploring the president and congress to build an:
animal-proof fence from the Pacific Ocean to the ...
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Border crossings between USSR and Afghanistan in the 1960s
For a (fictional, but set in the real world) story set in 1962, I need to get my protagonists from the USSR into Afghanistan. I've done some research and found no reliable information about the ...
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Was Nixon's Vietnam claim right before the 1968 election true?
In Richard Nixon's final appeal to voters on NBC right before the 1968 Presidential Election, he made an explosive claim about the Vietnam war. Here is how the Eugene Register-Guard reported it:
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Which types of tank are on this photo?
One of the more iconic photos of the Prague Spring is this:
A high Res version is on wikimedia, who took it first from a CIA flicker post. It is labeled there as "1968. During the Soviet ...
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What is this "d-mac" device?
The only current page I found for this device is this Chinese one, which didn't clarify anything. It looks like she's digitizing a blueprint.
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What does MLK mean by "lonely island" and "vast ocean"?
In the speech, "I have a dream", M.L. King says the following:
One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
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What's the history of the source of the slogan "power to the people"?
I can't find any detailed information on this phrase from a reasonable amount of internet searching. The current version of the wikipedia article about this slogan is light on details and very ...
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Is this 60's Atlanta airport security picture geniuine, and if so, what is happening here?
Following the advice I got from the user Semaphore I would like to split my original airport security question into separate parts and go into a bit more detail in regards to what I would like to know ...
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What was this security screening process in Swiss airports, circa 1970?
Following the advice I got from the user Semaphore I would like to split my original airport security question into separate parts and go into a bit more detail in regards to what I would like to know ...
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Did airports have security checks before the 1970s?
I just accidentally discovered a few pictures on the web, that seem to imply, that there were some sort of airport security checks on passengers all the way back in the 1960s. It was always my general ...
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Possible history behind photograph related to 1962 Sino-Indian War
I came across the following image in an archive of photographs related to the 1962 Sino-Indian War:
I have posted a question for identification of the aircraft.
The text in the archive seems to ...
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Why did the population of Descartes, France increase by so much in the 1960's?
The population of Descartes in central France increased by upwards of 150% from 1962 to 1968 after a general negative trend over the preceding seventy years. Why was this? All I can find is that the ...
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Why did LBJ, a staunch segregationist, champion and sign the 1964 Civil Rights Bill?
Lyndon B. Johnson with regards to the 1964 Civil Rights Act..
From the Atlantic
The times called for a leader who could subdue the vast political and administrative forces arrayed against change—...
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When Israel won the Six Day War, did they consider expelling all Arabs from the annexed territories?
Did Israel consider doing this and if so, would that have been in violation of international law?
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Why didn't Pakistan try to wrest Kashmir from India in 1962 but tried to do so in 1965?
In 1962, India and China fought a war in a region east of Bhutan where the two countries shared a border. Am I right? And, in that war, the Indian army was totally outclassed by the Chinese, something ...
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Why was Nixon never tried for treason for allegedly sabotaging the 1968 Peace Talks?
On November 2, 1968, the Government of South Vietnam pulled out of the proposed talks in Paris to try to find an end to the Vietnam War.
It is alleged that Richard Nixon, through an intermediary, was ...
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During the Berlin Blockade, why didn't the people in West Berlin just go over to buy food in East Berlin?
It wasn't until 1961 that the Berlin Wall that was set up, what was to prevent the West Berliners from going over to the east?
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Is there a difference between original 1768-71 and 1968-71 facsimile of 1st edition Encyclopaedia Brittanica
I was browsing a second hand book store and stumbled upon a 1968 facsimile of the 1768 1st edition Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
I am aware that a facsimile is an exact replica, but I still assumed that ...
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On the eve of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's independence, the country had virtually zero doctors, or any other intellectuals?
Even Patrice Lumumba was educated at the level of a clerk. So why did the pioneers of the independence movement think that the newly independent country would succeed?
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Was it normal for New York schools in the late 1960s to be desegregated?
I am currently researching late 1960s America in order to being writing a story. The story is set in 1966 in New York. So were schools (specifically Middle Schools) in New York desegregated by this ...
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Why is/was the world's expo 1967 so important to Montreal, Canada?
Although I have read Wikipedia's article on Expo Montreal 1967, I haven't been able to figure out why Expo 1967 still continues to strike an emotional chord in Canadians some 45 years after the event. ...
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Who coined the term "Golden Age" in reference to musical theatre?
Typically, the Golden Age of Broadway/Musical Theatre is considered to have taken place from the 1940s to the 1960s (some definitions are more specific, citing something like 1943 to 1959).
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Trying to identify this famous person. Young Johnny Unitas?
I was told by a friend that it looked like a young Johnny Unitas
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Who are all the people in this photo of the signing of the Civil Rights Act, 1964?
I've been trying to figure this out for a while, and it's really bugging me. Seeing Robert F. Kennedy (if I'm right) in the background there made me really curious about everyone else around Lyndon ...
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Computer business in 1969
Mad Men, season 7, episode 4, describes the computer business in 1969 as follows. IBM would lease computers to businesses, but would do so only for short leases, and would replace them with newer ...
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Did Martin Luther King's political outlook change during the civil rights movement?
From the Montgomery bus boycott to his death in 1968, Martin Luther King always used nonviolence as a strategy. Did his political outlook change (and why) throughout the civil right movement until ...
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What alternatives to working was proposed in Paris during May, 1968? [closed]
What ideas for alternatives to work, or a society where people work to survive, did people have during May 1968 in Paris? How could that society function and how could people feed themselves?
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Why did the USSR switch from 1524 mm gauge to 1520 mm gauge in the late 1960's?
This article mentions that Russia started with a 1,524 mm rail gauge, and in the sixties and seventies, switched to a 1,520 mm rail gauge with tighter tolerances.
Why do this? If you want tighter ...
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What happened in Calcutta in 1961?
I was watching a clip of the American flag being raised in Havana for the embassy re-opening since closing in 1961. There were some retired Marines there who were there when the flag was taken down. ...
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Was violent or nonviolent protest more effective in the context of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?
Was violent or nonviolent protest more effective in the context of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement? It seems like a simple question, but on further examination it is a challenge to discern. The ...
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What is "Egyptland" in the context of the 1960s black civil rights movement in the US?
Title of Chapter 10 of MLK book From Civil Rights to Human Rights. Egyptland is the name of chapter 10, and I was wondering why this might be and what it is referring to.
Thanks for your help!
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Did John F. Kennedy know about his judicial nominee's racism?
[Source:] On June 20, 1961, Cox was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi created by 75 Stat. 80. [...]
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What were John Profumo's responsibilities as the Secretary of State for War in Macmillan's government?
Although I've found that "Profumo's responsibility was the Army, and his principal preoccupation was helping to recruit and establish a regular volunteer Army after the abolition of conscription" (The ...
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What was Lester B. Pearson's motivation for instituting Canada's 40 hr. work week?
Back in the 1960s, Lester B. Pearson instituted Canada's 40-hour work week as well as 2 weeks vacation and a new minimum wage. However, his motivations for doing so at that time are not clear to me. ...
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Where is (or was) Project HARP's Yuma Arizona space gun?
I found myself reading about Project HARP, the High Altitude Research Project, which was a project funded to explore the possibility of creating high speed guns that could essentially replace certain ...
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How different were Labour and Conservative party lines on race immigration and empire in around 1962?
Though obviously I want responses to focus on concrete answers and evidence for the title question, I am ultimately interested in how likely it would have been for the 1962 Commonwealth Immigration ...
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What was the hippie movement? Why did it decline? [closed]
When we look back at 1960s-1970s, many times we come across the term 'Hippie movement' or 'Counter-Culture'. Hippies were described as people who made themselves stand out from the rest of the world. ...
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