1961 | North America - USA
| Alan Shepard makes the first American space flight. |
1961 | North America - USA
| Joseph Heller publishes Catch-22. |
1962 | North America - USA
| Andy Warhol paints his Campbell's Soup Cans. |
1963 | North America - USA
| Bob Dylan records Blowin' in the Wind |
1967 | North America - USA
| The film The Graduate is released. |
1967 | South America - Columbia
| Gabriel García Márquez publishes One Hundred Years of Solitude |
1969 | North America - USA
| The Woodstock Music Festival |
1969 | North America - USA
 Unidentified photographer / artist, 1969, Earthrise sequence - Earth rises over lunar horizon, NASA, LL/7969 | American astronauts (Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin) from Apollo 11 land on the moon whilst Michael Collins looks after the ship. |
1976 | Europe - Great Britain
| The single Anarchy in the U.K. by the Sex Pistols attacks middle class attitudes of commercialism and punk rock influences music and fashion. |
1977 | North America - USA
| The film Star Wars is released. |