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| 1963 |
| | | US poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London | |
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| 1963 |
| | | The Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed by the USA, USSR and UK, is the first of many international attempts to limit the threat of nuclear war | |
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| 1964 |
| | | British film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Surgeons Michael Bakey in the USA and Vasilii Kolesov in the USSR pioneer coronary bypass surgery, using the patient's mammary artery | |
|  | Coronary artery bypass graft
Wellcome Photo Library
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| 1965 |
| | | 18-year-old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World and Mr Universe) | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The US tennis player Billie Jean King wins the first of six Wimbledon singles titles | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes his last collection of cantos, Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president | |
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| 1971 |
| | | 95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The SALT 1 treaty is signed by the US and USSR, limiting anti-ballistic missiles | |
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