Kalpana Chawla
1962–2003 · Person
First Indian-born woman in space; died in Columbia disaster.
On these timelines: Master, India, People, Women in history, Spaceflight
Around 1962
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Suez Crisis (1956)