TIMELINE: 90 YEARS OF HISTORY 1960s

1963 - Sun Bowl stadium constructed   1966 - NCAA national champions   1969 - Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon

Significant events in UTEP history * Significant events in El Paso history ** Significant events in national or world history 1960 Joseph M. Ray named TWC president * El Paso County population 314,000 ** Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR 1961 TWC trains the nation's first Peace Corps class * Skyjacking at El Paso International Airport ** Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba fails 1962 Enrollment over 5,000 John M. Kidd Memorial Seismographic Observatory established ** Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Sun Bowl stadium constructed Larry Durham scores first Miner touchdown in Sun Bowl TWC wins 34-4 over North Texas State in first Sun Bowl stadium game ** President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas 1964 TWC's 50th anniversary Golden Jubilee celebrated * President Johnson and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez sign Chamizal agreement ** President Lyndon Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law 1965 “Turning Point” game: Miner football team defeats Utah 20-19 and wins every remaining game that season Miners beat Texas Christian University 13-12 in the 31st annual Sun Bowl First issue of NOVA published ** Thousands of U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam ** Racial violence in Selma, Ala 1966 Don Haskins leads men's basketball team to NCAA national championship, stunning Kentucky 72-65 Last Mining Engineer graduates 1967 TWC's name changed to the University of Texas at El Paso Miners beat University of Mississippi 14-7 in the 33rd Annual Sun Bowl ** Thurgood Marshall named to Supreme Court ** First Super Bowl played in Los Angeles 1968 Sophomore Bob Beamon makes world-record long jump at Olympic Games in Mexico City Enrollment over 10,000 * Lee Treviño wins U.S. Open * Tiguas recognized as American tribe ** Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated 1969 UTEP men's cross-country team wins NCAA National Championship Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity paints a new “M” overlooking the Sun Bowl Joseph Royall Smiley named UTEP president * Trans-Mountain Rd.-Loop 375 completed ** Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon