Himalayan Trust founded
1960 · Event
Hillary founds a charity that builds schools, clinics and bridges for the Sherpa people of the Khumbu — his main work for the rest of his life.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1960
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- The Troubles (1968)