1961
- Berlin Wall is built
- Peace Corps founded
- Folk musician Bob Dylan records his first album, becoming voice of his generation
- Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first man in space, followed by American astronaut Alan Shepard
- Hurricane Carla devastates Texas coast
1962
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Astronaut John Glenn first American to orbit earth
1963
- Civil rights demonstrations widespread
- The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., leads march on Washington, DC, giving his "I Have a Dream" speech
- Dr. Michael DeBakey develops mechanical heart
first woman in space -- Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova - November 22 -- President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas; Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as President aboard Air Force One at Dallas' Love Field by Judge Sarah T. Hughes
1964
- Civil Rights Act passes; murders of three civil rights workers in Alabama
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution paves way for massive military buildup in Vietnam
- Martin Luther King, Jr., receives Nobel Peace Prize
- Worldwide "Beatlemania" -- 73 million people watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan TV show
- The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Bishop of the Diocese of Texas, elected Presiding Bishop
1965
- War in Vietnam escalates
- LBJ's Great Society legislation passed by Congress
- Civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
- Astrodome built in Houston -- first completely covered sports stadium
1966
- The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines takes office as Presiding Bishop
- Duke Ellington composes jazz mass, first performed at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
- August 1 -- architecture student Charles Whitman goes on shooting rampage from top of University of Texas tower
1967
- Six Day War in Israel
- First heart transplant surgery
- Rolling Stone magazine founded
- Thurgood Marshall becomes first African American Supreme Court Justice
- Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee killed in launch pad test at Cape Canaveral
- Episcopal Church membership in U.S. 3.4 million
1968
- Tet Offensive, turning point of war in Vietnam; widespread anti-war protests in U.S.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
- Apollo 8 achieves first manned lunar orbit, with astronauts
- Internet established by U.S. Department of Defense
- Woodstock rock concert
- Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin first humans to walk on the moon, July 20th
1970
- IBM introduces floppy disks for computers
- Four students killed by National Guard troops during anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University in Ohio
- Near disaster after explosion aboard spacecraft on Apollo 13; astronauts James Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert brought safely back to Earth after days of tension and worry
- Episcopal Church in U.S. approves ordination of women to Diaconate
- Austin population 251,808
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