Contraceptive pill approved
1960 · Event
The US FDA approves Enovid as an oral contraceptive, catalysing the sexual revolution and women's mass entry into the workforce.
On these timelines: Master, Women in history, USA
Around 1960
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- The Troubles (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)