TimeDb - What happend in 1960

Events

Date	Event
1960	Paul Abraham Died
1960	Hugo Alfvén Died
1960	Maria de Alvear Was Born
1960	Jesús Arámbarri Died
1960	Nils Henrik Asheim Was Born
October 19 1960	Ayuo Was Born
1960	Jeremy Beck Was Born
April 10 1960	Arthur Benjamin Died
1960	George Benjamin Was Born
1960	Vishal Bhardwaj Was Born
1960	Alberto Bimboni Died
August 07 1960	André Bloch Died
1960	Sonia Bo Was Born
1960	Rutland Boughton Died
1960	Sidney Corbett Was Born
1960	Fabrizio De Rossi Re Was Born
1960	Ernő Dohnányi Died
1960	Jakob van Domselaer Died
1960	Karlheinz Essl Was Born
1960	Craig First Was Born
May 12 1960	Armstrong Gibbs Died
1960	Detlev Glanert Was Born
1960	Osvaldo Golijov Was Born
1960	Joseph Haas Died
October 30 1960	Alfred Hill Died
1960	Edward Burlingame Hill Died
1960	Jenő Huszka Died
January 15 1960	Aaron Jay Kernis Was Born
1960	Koji Kondo Was Born
1960	Joseph Lamb Died
April 03 1960	Arjen Anthony Lucassen Was Born
1960	Edgar Meyer Was Born
1960	Dimitri Mitropoulos Died
1960	Hajime Mizoguchi Was Born
1960	Rachel Portman Was Born
1960	Günter Raphael Died
August 18 1960	Andrew Schultz Was Born
June 22 1960	Alexander Shchetynsky Was Born
1960	Mark-Anthony Turnage Was Born
1960	Ezequiel Viñao Was Born
1960	Stewart Wallace Was Born
1960	Leo Weiner Died
June 04 1960	André Werner Was Born
January 01 1960	France And UK Grant Cameroon Independence
January 06 1960	Flight 2511 Is Destroyed In Mid-air
January 06 1960	Iraq Law Allows Political Party Registration
January 07 1960	The Polaris Missile Is Test Launched
January 09 1960	President Nasser Opens Construction On Nile
January 11 1960	Henry Lucas Commits His First Murder
January 13 1960	Gulag System Officially Abolished In Soviet Union
January 14 1960	Reserve Bank Of Australia Established
January 18 1960	Capital Airlines Flight 20 Crashes In Virginia
January 19 1960	US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty Signed
January 20 1960	Verwoerd Announces South Africa Plebiscite
January 21 1960	Little Joe 1b Mercury Virginia Miss Sam
January 21 1960	Plane Crashes In Jamaica Killing 37
January 23 1960	USS Trieste Record-breaking Dive In Pacific Ocean
January 24 1960	European Volunteers Seize Government Buildings In Algiers
January 25 1960	DJ's Threatened With Fines For Taking Bribes
January 26 1960	Danny Heater Sets A High School Basketball Scoring Record
January 28 1960	NFL Expands In Dallas And Minneapolis-St. Paul
January 30 1960	African National Party Founded In Chad
February 01 1960	The First Greensboro Sit-in Takes Place
February 03 1960	British PM Supports Decolonisation
February 08 1960	Queen Elizabeth II Adpots Mountbatten-Windsor Surname
February 08 1960	The Hollywood Walk Of Fame Plaques Are Installed
February 13 1960	France: Fourth Country To Possess Nuclear Weapons
February 13 1960	Three Nashville Sit-ins For Black College Students
February 16 1960	USS Triton Was First Submarine To Circumnavigate The World
February 19 1960	China Launches T-7, First Sounding Rocket
February 26 1960	Alitalia Airline Crash Kills 34 Passengers
February 29 1960	Moroccian Earthquake Kills Over 3000 People
March 04 1960	Frieghter Exploded In Havana, Killed 100
March 05 1960	Photographer Captures Che Guevara
March 09 1960	Firsts:Scribner's Implants Shunt For Hemodialysis
March 17 1960	Dwight D. Eisenhower Was Responsible For The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
March 21 1960	Police Massarce At Height Of Aparheid
March 22 1960	First Laser Patent Issued To Schawlow And Townes
April 01 1960	Outerspace Pictures Transmitted To Television By Tiros-1
April 01 1960	First Dr. Martens Were Released
April 04 1960	France Grants Mali Independence
April 08 1960	German Land Annexed By Dutch Returned For 280 Million
April 09 1960	Prime Minister Survives Assassination In Johannesburg
April 13 1960	Transit 1-B Is Firs Satellite Nav System
April 15 1960	Baker Leads Conference Leading To Committee Formation
April 19 1960	Korean Student Protest Forces Rhee To Resign
April 21 1960	Brasilia: Brazil Inaugurates New Capital
April 25 1960	USS Triton Traverses Globe While Submerged
April 26 1960	South Korea Dictator Steps Down In Revolution
April 27 1960	Togo Gains Independence From UN Trusteeship
May 01 1960	Maharashtra Day, Founding India's Gujarat And Maharashtra
May 01 1960	Powers' Spyplane Shot Down Over Soviet Union
May 03 1960	The Fantasticks Opens In Greenwich Village
May 03 1960	Anne Frank House Museum Opens
May 03 1960	European Free Trade Association Is Established
May 06 1960	Margaret And Anthony Wedding Televised First
May 07 1960	1960: Khrushchev Detains American U2 Pilot
May 09 1960	Food And Drug, Approve Birth Control
May 10 1960	First Underwater Sub USS Triton Completes Mission
May 11 1960	Israeli Mossad Agents Capture Fugitive Nazi
May 13 1960	The Free Speech Movement Is Born
May 15 1960	The Soviet Union Launches Sputnik 4
May 16 1960	Maiman Operates New Laser In California
May 22 1960	9.5 Earthquake Hits Southern Chile
May 24 1960	Cordón Caulle Erupts In 1960
May 27 1960	Turkish President Celal Bayar Removed By Military
June 01 1960	NZ's First TV Broadcast At 7:30pm
June 17 1960	$4K Awarded To Native Tribe For Land
June 20 1960	Mali Federation Gains French Independence
June 23 1960	Enovid First U.S. Approved Oral Contraceptive
June 25 1960	NSA Cryptographers Defect To Soviet Union From Mexico
June 26 1960	British Protectorate Gains Independence
June 26 1960	Madagascar Gains Independence
June 30 1960	Congo Gains Independence From Belgium
July 01 1960	Ghana Becomes Republic. Nkrumah First President
July 01 1960	Independence Of Somalia
July 04 1960	50-star US Flag Debuts In Philadelphia
July 08 1960	Powers Charged With Espionage
July 11 1960	Dahomey, Upper Volta, And Niger Gain French Independence
July 11 1960	Katanga Breaks Away From Congo
July 11 1960	Harper Lee's Novel Is Published In The US
July 12 1960	Orlyonok Is Founded
July 14 1960	Goodall Arrives In Tanzania To Study Chimpanzees
July 16 1960	American Submarine Fires Missile While Submerged
July 20 1960	First Female Government Leader Elected In Ceylon
July 20 1960	The USS George Washington Launched A Missile
August 01 1960	Benin Became Independent From France
August 01 1960	The Government Of Pakistan Names Islamabad The Capital
August 03 1960	Niger Gains Independence From France
August 05 1960	Burkina Faso Gained It's Independence From France
August 06 1960	Cuba Nationalizes Foreign-owned Properties During Revolution
August 07 1960	Cote D'Ivoire Becomes Independent From France
August 08 1960	South Kasai Secedes From The Congo
August 11 1960	Chad Declares Independence
August 12 1960	Echo 1A, NASA's First Successful Communications Satellite
August 13 1960	Central Africa Declares Independence From France
August 15 1960	Congo Becomes Independent From France
August 16 1960	Cyprus Gains Independence From UK
August 17 1960	Gabon Independent From France
August 19 1960	Russians Convict Shot-down American Pilot Of Espionage
August 19 1960	Soviet Dogs Launched On Korabl-Sputnik 2
August 20 1960	Senegal Declares Independence From Mali
September 02 1960	First Parliamentary Election In Tibet
September 05 1960	A Poet Becomes Senegal's First President
September 05 1960	Ali Takes Gold For Boxing At Olympics
September 08 1960	Eisenhower Dedicates Marshall Space Flight Center
September 10 1960	Abebe Bikila Win Gold Medal
September 14 1960	OPEC Founded
September 14 1960	Congo In Crisis After CIA Assists Semi Military Coup
September 18 1960	Castro Arrives In New York City
September 22 1960	Sudanese Republic Renamed Mali After Withdrawal Of Senegal
September 24 1960	First Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier, USS Enterprise Is Launched
September 26 1960	Nixon And Kennedy In First Televised Debate
September 26 1960	Fidel Castro Announces Support For U.S.S.R
September 28 1960	Mali And Senegal Join United Nations
September 29 1960	Khrushchev Disrupts UN Meeting With Outbursts
October 01 1960	Nigeria Gains Independence From United Kingdom
October 04 1960	Bird Strike Causes Deaths At Logan International
October 07 1960	Nigeria Joins The United Nations
October 12 1960	Nikita Khrushchev Pounds Shoe On Desk To Protest
October 12 1960	Inejiro Killed During A Live Broadcast
October 19 1960	United States Imposes Trade Embargo On Cuba
October 24 1960	Soviet Union Missile Explodes On Launch
October 29 1960	Cassius Clay Wins First Fight
October 29 1960	Cal Poly Football Team Crashes Toledo, Ohio
October 30 1960	Michael Woodruff Performs A Kidney Transplant
November 01 1960	Kennedy Broaches Peace Corp Idea During Campaign
November 02 1960	Penguin Books Not Guilty In Osbscenity Trial
November 03 1960	A Refuge Was Established By Congress
November 04 1960	Jane Goodall Saw The Chimps Producing The First Animal Made Tools Ever
November 08 1960	John F. Kennedy Elected President Of The United States
November 09 1960	McNamara Leaves Ford, Joins Kennedy Administration
November 11 1960	Coup Against President Diem Fails In South Vietnam
November 25 1960	Mirabel Sisters From Dominican Republic Are Assassinated
November 28 1960	Mauritanias' Independence From France
December 01 1960	Paul McCartney And Pete Best Deported
December 03 1960	Musical Camelot Debuts In The 1960's
December 09 1960	Coronation Street Debuts In England
December 11 1960	Algerian Violence During Charles De Gaulle's Visit
December 13 1960	Ethiopia Emperor Deposed While Visiting Brazil
December 15 1960	Richard Pavlick Arrested For Plotting Assassination Of John F. Kennedy
December 15 1960	King Mahendra Imposes Direct Rule
December 16 1960	United Airlines And TWA Collide, Killing 128
December 17 1960	Coup Crushed By Ethiopian Troops And Return Of Power To Leader
December 17 1960	32 Die In Munich C-131 Crash
December 20 1960	National Front For Liberation Of Vietnam Formed
December 31 1960	Farthing Coin Illegal Tender In United Kingdom