1960s

1960

Lebrun paints Genesis mural
1960
 

1961

Pomona students win College Bowl
1961
 

1962

College celebrates 75th year

1963

Washington Semester introduced

1964

47 becomes Pomona's magic number
1964
 

1965

Students protest Vietnam War
1964
 

1966

Oldenborg Center completed
1966
 

1967

The Great Freshman Beanie Revolt

1968

Residence halls go "co-ed"

1969

Bomb explodes at Carnegie
1969
 
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1960

U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia

1961

Peace Corps established

1962

Cuban missile crisis

1963

President Kennedy killed

1964

Johnson signs Civil Rights Act

1965

Congress passes Voting Rights Act

1966

Star Trek debuts on NBC

1967

Detroit race riot leaves 43 dead

1968

Martin Luther King Jr. killed

1969

Apollo 11 lands on the moon