History: 1960s

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1960s
1960	Dow introduces 23 new products. Employment reaches 30,000; annual sales pass $1 billion. Handi-Wrap plastic film wrap introduced.
1961	Manufacturing site purchased in Terneuzen, The Netherlands.
1962	Herbert D. Doan succeeds his father, Leland, as president. Bioproducts department established to integrate research for pharmaceutical, biological, animal, healthcare, and agriculture industries.
1963	Dow builds the first commercial installation to employ atomic energy as a catalyst in a production process. Dow manufactures more than 1 billion pounds of plastic in one year.
1964	Annual sales exceed $1 billion.
1965	Dow's one shot measles vaccine introduced. Geographical areas established (Europe, Latin America, Pacific, Canada, U.S.).
1966	Dow adds epoxy resins to product mix. Sales outside the U.S. now account for 25 percent of the company's total sales.
1968	Apollo 8 reenters the Earth's atmosphere protected by a heat shield fabricated from Dow epoxy resins. Ziploc bags test marketed.

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1961
Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, orbits the Earth; Alan Shepard makes first U.S. manned flight.

1965
U.S. and Soviet astronauts walk in space.

1965
Astronaut Edward H. white II made his famous twenty-one minute "stroll in space" by using a hose made of Dow Cornings's Silastic silicone which supplied his oxygen.

1966
Developed the universal biohazard symbol (fire orange) warning sign used in doctor offices and medical establishments today.

1969
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.

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