This page contains a timeline of major events related to the Lost Generation between 1960 and 1969, with U.S. and world events to provide context.
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1961
January 10 – Dashiell Hammett dies in New York, New York
January 20 – JFK sworn in as the 35th U.S. President
April 17 – American backed Cuban invasion force lands at the Bay of Pigs
July 1 – Louis-Ferdinand Celine dies in Meudon, France
July 2 – Ernest Hemingway commits suicide in Ketchum, Idaho
1962
June 4 – The Reivers, William Faulkner’s nineteenth and last novel, is published
July 6 – William Faulkner dies in Byhalia, Mississippi
September 3 – E. E. Cummings dies in North Conway, New Hampshire
October 5 – Sylvia Beach dies in Paris, France
October 15 – U.S. spy planes spot Soviet missile bases in Cuba, starting the Cuban missile crisis
October 22 – Soviet Union pulls its missiles out of Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis
1963
May 2 – Van Wyck Brooks dies in Bridgewater, Connecticut
November 22 – Aldous Huxley dies in Los Angeles, California; JFK assassinated, LBJ sworn in as 36th U.S. President
1964
July 2 – Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, abolishing segregation
August 7 – U.S. begins military presence in Vietnam
October 17 – Gerald Murphy dies in East Hampton, New York
December 21 – Carl Van Vechten dies in New York City
1967
June 7 – Dorothy Parker dies in New York, New York
1968
April 16 – Edna Ferber dies in New York, New York
December 20 – John Steinbeck dies in New York, New York
1969
January 20 – Richard Nixon sworn in as the 37th U.S. President
January 28 – Josephine Herbst dies
July 20 – Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon
See also: 1870s-80s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
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