Avenue Henri-Dunant, La Cluse, Plainpalais, Genève, 1205, Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/SvizraJaguar Cars
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Hagerty[1]: the E-Type "was revealed to the media on the 15 March, 1961"; Wikipedia[2][3] gives its debut as 15 March 1961 and lists the E-Type among the introductions at the 1961 Geneva show.
Jaguar revealed the E-Type at the Geneva Motor Show on 15 March 1961; a coupe driven flat out from Coventry and a roadster rushed overnight the next day helped it take more than 500 orders at a show where Jaguar had planned only 250 cars.
The Beverly Hilton, Merv Griffin Way, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, 90067, United StatesRecording Academy
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Wikipedia's[2][4] article text: "The 3rd Annual Grammy[1][5][6] Awards were held on April 12, 1961, at Los Angeles and New York"; awardsandshows.com[3]: "held on 12th April 1961, at Beverly Hilton Hotel". Wikipedia's infobox gives April 13, so sources disagree by a day. No start time is given.
At the 3rd Annual Grammy Awards on 12 April 1961, held as dinners including one at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, comedian Bob Newhart won Album of the Year and Best New Artist, Percy Faith's "Theme from A Summer Place" won Record of the Year and Ray Charles took four awards.
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Opened in 1961 (year only, so estimated at year end), per guide.michelin.com. Restaurant information verified October 9, 2026.[1]
A family-run trattoria near the Pantheon devoted to Roman classics.
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Target's[1] 60th-anniversary article says "On May 1, 1962" guests lined up for the Roseville opening; KSTP[3] and Wikipedia's[2] History of Target Corporation give the same date.
On 1 May 1962 the Dayton Company opened the first Target discount store, a 68,800-square-foot, one-floor store at 1515 County Road B in Roseville, Minnesota.
The Beverly Hilton, Merv Griffin Way, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, 90067, United StatesRecording Academy
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Wikipedia[2][4]: "The 4th Annual Grammy[1][6] Awards were held on May 29, 1962, at Chicago, Los Angeles and New York"; Billboard's[3] Garland timeline: "May 29, 1962: Grammy Awards ... Became the first woman to win a Grammy for album of the year". No start time is given, so the pin is the all-day date.
At the 4th Annual Grammy Awards on 29 May 1962, Henry Mancini's "Moon River" won Record and Song of the Year and five awards for Mancini in all, Judy Garland became the first woman to win Album of the Year for Judy at Carnegie Hall, and Peter Nero won Best New Artist.
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The company and its own museum both date the first Wal-Mart Discount City to 2 July 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas.[1]
Sam Walton opened Wal-Mart Discount City on Rogers' Highway 71, his first store under the name after a decade running Ben Franklin variety stores. The format was the bet: lower margins on everything, in towns the big chains had written off as too small.
Lancaster House, Stable Yard, St James's, City of Westminster, London, SW1A, United KingdomBritish Aircraft Corporation
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The treaty text ends "Done in duplicate at London, this 29th day of November 1962"; EBSCO[2] gives "signed on November 29, 1962" and the Flashbak[4] caption dates the signing photograph "November 29, 1962 in Lancaster House".
On 29 November 1962 the British and French governments signed a treaty in London to build a supersonic airliner together, sharing work, cost and sales equally. The agreement, with no escape clause, started the programme that became Concorde.
Renton Municipal Airport, West Perimeter Road, Renton, King County, Washington, 98057, United StatesBoeing Commercial Airplanes
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HistoryLink[1] and Wikipedia[3] give 9 February 1963; This Day in Aviation gives the same date with the 2 h 1 min flight and Paine Field landing.
The prototype Boeing 727-100, N7001U, lifted off from Renton Municipal Airport on 9 February 1963 with chief test pilot Lew Wallick and landed about two hours later at Paine Field in Everett.
The Beverly Hilton, Merv Griffin Way, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, 90067, United StatesRecording Academy
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Grammy.com[1][4][5]'s GRAMMY Rewind: "5th Annual GRAMMY Awards May 15, 1963"; Wikipedia[2]: "The 5th Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 15, 1963, at Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City". No start time is given.
At the 5th Annual Grammy Awards on 15 May 1963, Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" won Record of the Year, Vaughn Meader's Kennedy-parody The First Family won Album of the Year, and Frank Sinatra presented Bing Crosby with the first Lifetime Achievement Award.
Diga del Vajont, Casso, Erto e Casso, Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 33080, ItaliaEnel
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Italy's Civil Protection Department, Wikipedia[2] and History Daily[3] all give the night of 9 October 1963 (Wikipedia: 22:39 CET).
On the night of 9 October 1963 a landslide from Monte Toc into the Vajont reservoir sent a wave over the 262 m dam, destroying Longarone and nearby villages and killing roughly 2,000 people.
Roy E. Disney - Feature Animation Building, Riverside Drive, Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, 91521, United StatesWalt Disney Animation Studios
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Wikipedia's[2][3] article for the film and its list of Walt Disney Animation Studios films give the US release as 25 December 1963. It premiered in London on 12 December 1963 and opened in the United States on 25 December 1963. The Numbers[4] lists domestic release(s): December 25th, 1963 (Wide) by Walt Disney March 11th, 1983 (Limited) by Walt Disney.
The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney, based on the 1938 novel by T. H. White. It reached US theaters on 25 December 1963.
Unisphere, Avenue of the Americas, Queens, Queens County, New York, 11368, United StatesFord Motor Company
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HISTORY[1]: "April 17, 1964" Ford Mustang debuts at World's Fair; Wikipedia[4] and EBSCO[3] agree the Mustang was introduced on April 17, 1964 at the New York World's Fair.
Ford introduced the Mustang at the New York World's Fair on 17 April 1964, a US$2,368 pony car that took 22,000 orders on its first day and sold more than 400,000 in its first year.
Ferrero Spa, Via Vivaro, Alba, Cuneo, Piemonte 12051, ItalyFerrero
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Cuneo24[1]: "Il 20 aprile 1964, infatti, dallo stabilimento Ferrero[3] di Alba uscì il primo vasetto di Nutella[2]".
The hazelnut and cocoa spread that grew out of Pietro Ferrero's post-war Giandujot is first jarred as Nutella at Ferrero's plant in Alba on 20 April 1964.
The Beverly Hilton, Merv Griffin Way, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, 90067, United StatesRecording Academy
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Wikipedia[2][4]: "The 6th Annual Grammy[1][5] Awards were held on May 12, 1964, at Chicago, Los Angeles and New York"; awardsandshows.com[3]: "The 6th Grammy Award ceremony was held on May 12, 1964, at Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles". No start time is given.
At the 6th Annual Grammy Awards on 12 May 1964, Henry Mancini's "Days of Wine and Roses" won Record and Song of the Year, Barbra Streisand's debut The Barbra Streisand Album won Album of the Year, and Ward Swingle and the Swingle Singers won Best New Artist.
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Wikipedia's[3] Tokaido Shinkansen and Shinkansen articles, along with Japan House London's[2] retrospective, state the line opened on October 1, 1964, ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.
On October 1, 1964, just nine days before the Tokyo Olympics opened, Japan's Tokaido Shinkansen began carrying passengers between Tokyo and Osaka at over 200 km/h.
Long Beach Airport, Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, 90846, United StatesDouglas Aircraft Company
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This Day in Aviation: "At 11:26 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, the first Douglas DC-9 ... N9DC, took off from Long Beach Airport" on 25 February 1965 (PST, UTC-8).[1]
The first Douglas DC-9, N9DC, took off from Long Beach at 11:26 a.m. on 25 February 1965 for a 2 hour 13 minute flight to Edwards Air Force Base, starting flight tests of the rear-engined twinjet.
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 2101, NASA Parkway, Houston, Harris County, Texas, 77058, United StatesOmega
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Fratello: "NASA completed all these tests on March 1st, 1965"; Monochrome: the Speedmaster was declared "Flight Qualified for all Manned Space Missions" on the 1st of March 1965 (Fratello adds that the formal qualification followed on 1 June 1965).[1]
After a gruelling test series that Rolex and Longines-Wittnauer chronographs failed, NASA completed its trials on 1 March 1965 and the Omega Speedmaster became the watch qualified for all manned space missions.
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Happened as dated, per sabr.org[4]: "April 9, 1965: Astros beat Yankees in first game inside the Houston Astrodome."
The Houston Astrodome, the world's first fixed-roof, air-conditioned multipurpose stadium, opened on 9 April 1965 with an exhibition game between the Astros and Yankees — though it's stood closed and searching for a new use since 2008.
London Gatwick Airport, Charlwood Road, Lowfield Heath, Langley Green, Crawley, West Sussex, England, RH11 0QA, United KingdomBritish Aircraft Corporation
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British Caledonian[1] history page: "The first BUA scheduled 1-11 service was made on 9th April 1965 to Genoa"; Wikipedia[2][3]: "the first revenue service flew on 9 April from Gatwick to Genoa"; Travel Update[4] agrees.
British United Airways flew the BAC One-Eleven's first revenue service from Gatwick to Genoa on 9 April 1965, putting the British short-haul jet into airline use eight months before the Douglas DC-9.
The Beverly Hilton, Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, 90067, United StatesRecording Academy
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The Paul McCartney Project and Wikipedia[2] both date the 7th Annual Grammy[1] Awards to 13 April 1965 at the Beverly Hilton; no start time is given, so the pin is the all-day date.
The 7th Grammy Awards on 13 April 1965 gave the Beatles Best New Artist; Getz/Gilberto won Album of the Year, "The Girl From Ipanema" Record of the Year and "Hello, Dolly!" Song of the Year.
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation site, East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, 94043, United StatesFairchild Semiconductor
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The IEEE reprint carries the original citation on its own first page: "Reprinted from Gordon E. Moore, 'Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits,' Electronics, pp. 114-117, April 19, 1965."[1]
Gordon Moore's four-page article in Electronics observes that the number of components per chip has been doubling yearly and projects it forward a decade. The observation becomes Moore's law and the semiconductor industry's roadmap.
Mercedes-Benz Werk Wörth, Wörth am Rhein, GermanyMercedes-Benz
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Daimler Truck's[3] own 60th-anniversary press release, "Historic milestone at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth: First truck produced 60 years ago," names 14 July 1965 and the LP 608 model.
Mercedes-Benz's Wörth am Rhein plant, which had assembled only truck cabs since opening in 1963, produced its first complete vehicle, a green LP 608, on 14 July 1965. The plant has since grown into the world's largest truck factory, building models including the Actros.
BT Tower, Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, London, UKBT Group
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Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "a single telephone call changed the history of London and the United Kingdom forever."
London's cylindrical BT Tower (originally the GPO Tower) began carrying live microwave telecommunications traffic in 1965, its concrete core partly designed to survive a nuclear blast.
Ramp 5, South Inner Loop Road, College Park, Clayton County, Georgia, 30337, United StatesDouglas Aircraft Company
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Delta Flight Museum: "Delta flew the world's first DC-9 service on November 29, 1965, with DC-9-14 Ship 105, from Atlanta to Memphis to Kansas City. Daily scheduled DC-9 service started December 8, 1965."[1]
Delta Air Lines flew the first DC-9 passenger service on 29 November 1965 with Ship 105 from Atlanta to Memphis and Kansas City; daily scheduled DC-9 service began on 8 December 1965.
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A wiki entry citing a Pulmuone newsroom visit report says it was founded in 1965. Single secondary source, year-only, so estimated.[1]
Long-standing Euljiro Pyongyang-style naengmyeon house known for dongchimi-broth noodles and eobok jaengban, in a recently renovated main building.
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Menzi Muck[3] AG's own company history states the first walking excavator, the Menzi Muck 2500, was launched in 1966, but does not publish an exact day, so only the year is confirmed.
Swiss inventor Ernst Menzi's company launched the Menzi Muck 2500 in 1966, the world's first all-terrain walking (spider) excavator, built to work steep Alpine slopes conventional machines could not reach.
Hollywood Palladium, 6215, West Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90028, United StatesAcademy of Country Music
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Billboard[4] of 1 January 1966 reported that the awards 'will be announced at a banquet Feb. 28 at the Hollywood Palladium'; BMI's July 1966 report and its 1968 retrospective put the first annual awards dinner at the Hollywood Palladium 'in February' 1966, and the web's summaries of the ACM history repeat 28 February (a Monday). No post-event newspaper giving the day was reachable, so the day rests on the announced banquet date plus the February/Palladium confirmations; no start time is given, so the pin is the all-day date.
The Academy of Country & Western Music held its first awards dinner at the Hollywood Palladium on 28 February 1966, naming Roger Miller Man of the Year, Buck Owens top male vocalist and Bonnie Owens top female vocalist.
The Beverly Hilton, Merv Griffin Way, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, 90067, United StatesRecording Academy
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Wikipedia[2]: "The 8th Annual Grammy[1][5] Awards were held March 15, 1966"; The Beatles Bible's[3] entry dated 15 March 1966 says "The ceremony took place in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel"; awardsandshows.com[4]: "held on 15th March 1966, at Beverly Hilton". No start time is given.
At the 8th Annual Grammy Awards on 15 March 1966, held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Roger Miller's "King of the Road" won five or six awards, Herb Alpert's "A Taste of Honey" took Record of the Year, Sinatra's September of My Years won Album of the Year and Tom Jones won Best New Artist, while The Beatles went winless in ten nominations.
Am Opel-Prüffeld 2, 63110 Rodgau-Dudenhofen, GermanyOpel
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Multiple independent 50th-anniversary retrospectives (Torque[2], epilog.de, autohaus.de[3]) agree the Dudenhofen proving ground opened in April 1966, though none give an exact day.
Opel opened its Dudenhofen proving ground near Frankfurt in April 1966, the most modern car test center in Europe at the time. Six decades on, its more than 70 kilometers of track still put prototype technologies like automated driving through secretive testing before they reach the road.
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Aerotech News[1]: "On April 13, 1966, Boeing announced an order worth $525 million from Pan Am[2] for 25 Model 747 jumbo jets, (that's $21-million each!)".
On 13 April 1966 Boeing announced a US$525 million order from Pan American World Airways for 25 Model 747 jumbo jets, the launch order that started the 747 program. The deal committed Boeing to design the world's largest airliner and build a factory to assemble it.