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1960 - UK seeks entry to Europe Britain will ask to join EEC Mr Macmillan, a weary-looking father figure, at last held out his hand yesterday and offered to try to lead the Commons and the country into Europe, if he can find the way. There was a good deal of kicking and screaming and this was to be expected. 1961 - Russia puts a man in orbit What it feels like in space Major Yuri Gagarin described today how it felt to be the first man in space - how he was able to write and work and how he burst out singing for joy as his ship plunged back towards the earth. "Everything was easier to perform? legs and arms weighed nothing," he told an interviewer. 1962 - The Cuban missile crisis The Cuban crisis People who thought the Cuban crisis was easing - and who sent Stock Exchange prices rising - had better think again. The situation is still full of danger. 1963 - The shooting of JFK President Kennedy assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas this afternoon. He died in the emergency room of the Parkland Memorial Hospital 32 minutes after the attack. He was 46 years old 1964 - Beatlemania Beatle hysteria hits US Physically, the Beatle invasion was launched just after 1 p.m. when their air liner touched down to pandemonium at Kennedy Airport. But in fact New York has been in the tightening grip of Beatlemania for some weeks. 1965 - The Vietnam war US paratroops go into attack against Vietcong An Australian battalion joined United States paratroops and South Vietnamese forces today in an attack on a Vietcong stronghold about 30 miles north of Saigon. This was the first time US troops were employed in an offensive role. 1966 - England wins the World Cup Let Us Now Praise Famous Footballers To the accompaniment of expressions of praise, thanksgiving, and, in some cases, undisguised disbelief, England became football champions of the world by defeating West Germany 4-2 on Saturday at Wembley. 1967 - The six-day war Israeli forces hit back - and cut off Gaza town Fighting broke out today on all Israel's borders with its Arab neighbours. Official Israeli statements said that attacks had been launched in the area of the Negev, in Jerusalem, and along the Syrian border near Dagania. 1968 - The soixante-huitards Paris gripped by insurrection An insurrection, there is no other word for it, swept a stupefied Paris last night in the hours that followed General de Gaulle's television address. 1969 - Neil Armstrong takes one small step The Moonwalkers Men are on the moon. At 3:39 am this morning - nearly four hours ahead of schedule - Armstrong, the lunar module commander, opened the hatch and clambered slowly down to the surface of the moon.
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