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Events on the year of 1960 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1960 Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20 cents
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01 Jan 1960 Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France
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01 Jan 1960 Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars
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01 Jan 1960 Montserrat adopts constitution
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01 Jan 1960 US census at 179,245,000
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02 Jan 1960 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
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02 Jan 1960 John F Kennedy announces run for US Presidency
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02 Jan 1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
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02 Jan 1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President
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04 Jan 1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
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05 Jan 1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating
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06 Jan 1960 The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
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06 Jan 1960 National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
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07 Jan 1960 The Polaris missile is test launched.
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09 Jan 1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
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09 Jan 1960 President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
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10 Jan 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
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11 Jan 1960 Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
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11 Jan 1960 Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts
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11 Jan 1960 Chad declares independence from France
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12 Jan 1960 Sobers & Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wicket vs England
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12 Jan 1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points
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13 Jan 1960 The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.
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14 Jan 1960 The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
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14 Jan 1960 US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
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14 Jan 1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
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17 Jan 1960 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-21
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17 Jan 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
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18 Jan 1960 Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
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18 Jan 1960 US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
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19 Jan 1960 Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty
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19 Jan 1960 Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
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20 Jan 1960 Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
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20 Jan 1960 Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
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21 Jan 1960 Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.
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21 Jan 1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
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21 Jan 1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
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21 Jan 1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning
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22 Jan 1960 10th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
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22 Jan 1960 Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
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22 Jan 1960 French President De Gaulle escapes attempt by General Massu
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22 Jan 1960 Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
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23 Jan 1960 Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
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23 Jan 1960 The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
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23 Jan 1960 Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph "Trieste" reach 10,900 meters in Mariana Trench
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24 Jan 1960 Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
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24 Jan 1960 Algeria uprises against French President De Gaulle
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26 Jan 1960 High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
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26 Jan 1960 Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
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26 Jan 1960 Danny Heater scores 135 points in basketball game (Boys' High School)
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26 Jan 1960 Oakland enters the AFL
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26 Jan 1960 Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on the 23rd ballot
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28 Jan 1960 The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
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28 Jan 1960 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC
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28 Jan 1960 NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises
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28 Jan 1960 Goon Show's final episode on BBC
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30 Jan 1960 The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
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30 Jan 1960 CIA oks Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart)
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30 Jan 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
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30 Jan 1960 Riot curtails third day's play at Port-Of-Spain West Indies vs England
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30 Jan 1960 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
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31 Jan 1960 Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in New York City NY
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01 Feb 1960 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
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01 Feb 1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
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01 Feb 1960 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
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01 Feb 1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
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01 Feb 1960 Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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02 Feb 1960 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
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03 Feb 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
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04 Feb 1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
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04 Feb 1960 Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park
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07 Feb 1960 Old handwriting found in Qumran, near the Dead Sea
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08 Feb 1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
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08 Feb 1960 Congress opens hearings looking into payola
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08 Feb 1960 The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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08 Feb 1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
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09 Feb 1960 AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
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10 Feb 1960 "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances
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10 Feb 1960 Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" premieres
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11 Feb 1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show
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12 Feb 1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
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13 Feb 1960 "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
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13 Feb 1960 "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
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13 Feb 1960 Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
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13 Feb 1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
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13 Feb 1960 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
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14 Feb 1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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14 Feb 1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
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16 Feb 1960 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
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16 Feb 1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
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18 Feb 1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colorado
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18 Feb 1960 Walter O'Malley, Los Angeles Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
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19 Feb 1960 China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
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19 Feb 1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
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19 Feb 1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland
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21 Feb 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
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23 Feb 1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
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24 Feb 1960 Italian government of Segni falls
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24 Feb 1960 US beats Germany in Olympics hockey finals round, 9-1
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25 Feb 1960 John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos" premieres
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25 Feb 1960 Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" premieres in New York NY
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26 Feb 1960 A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
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26 Feb 1960 USA's David Jenkins wins the Olympics Gold for men's figure skating
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26 Feb 1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
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26 Feb 1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion
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27 Feb 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
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27 Feb 1960 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
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28 Feb 1960 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colorado
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28 Feb 1960 US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
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28 Feb 1960 8th Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley CA close
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28 Feb 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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29 Feb 1960 JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue
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29 Feb 1960 An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.
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29 Feb 1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
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29 Feb 1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds
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29 Feb 1960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Mar 1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
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04 Mar 1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
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04 Mar 1960 The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
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05 Mar 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
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05 Mar 1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB)
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05 Mar 1960 Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)
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05 Mar 1960 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
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05 Mar 1960 Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
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07 Mar 1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
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08 Mar 1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
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09 Mar 1960 Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
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10 Mar 1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
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11 Mar 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
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13 Mar 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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13 Mar 1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals move to St Louis
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13 Mar 1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
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14 Mar 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California
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14 Mar 1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
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15 Mar 1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
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15 Mar 1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
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17 Mar 1960 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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17 Mar 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
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17 Mar 1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Mar 1960 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55
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21 Mar 1960 Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
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21 Mar 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
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22 Mar 1960 AL Schawlow and C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
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22 Mar 1960 Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
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22 Mar 1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
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23 Mar 1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
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24 Mar 1960 US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover", not obscene
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25 Mar 1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
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25 Mar 1960 DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (New York NY)
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25 Mar 1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
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25 Mar 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms
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26 Mar 1960 Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem
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26 Mar 1960 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
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26 Mar 1960 USC captures NCAA swimming title
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27 Mar 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open
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28 Mar 1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal
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28 Mar 1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland)
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29 Mar 1960 Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres
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31 Mar 1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man" premieres in New York NY
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01 Apr 1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara)
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01 Apr 1960 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee
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01 Apr 1960 U Nu elected Premier of Burma
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01 Apr 1960 Dr. Martens released its first boots, the model 1460.
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01 Apr 1960 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
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02 Apr 1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
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02 Apr 1960 KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast
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04 Apr 1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur, " Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win
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04 Apr 1960 Oscar awarded to the Netherlands director Bert Haanstra
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04 Apr 1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
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04 Apr 1960 Senegal declares independence from France
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04 Apr 1960 France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
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08 Apr 1960 Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
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08 Apr 1960 The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
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09 Apr 1960 14th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
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09 Apr 1960 South African Premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
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09 Apr 1960 Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg.
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10 Apr 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
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10 Apr 1960 24th Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282
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10 Apr 1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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11 Apr 1960 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
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12 Apr 1960 Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass"
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12 Apr 1960 Bill Veeck and Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard"
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12 Apr 1960 Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass"
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13 Apr 1960 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
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13 Apr 1960 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
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13 Apr 1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
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14 Apr 1960 "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
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14 Apr 1960 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games
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14 Apr 1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
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14 Apr 1960 Stanley Cup Montr
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15 Apr 1960 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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15 Apr 1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw University
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17 Apr 1960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government
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17 Apr 1960 Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn
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19 Apr 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
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19 Apr 1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
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19 Apr 1960 Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
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19 Apr 1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
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20 Apr 1960 "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
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21 Apr 1960 Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
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21 Apr 1960 Brasilia becomes the capital of Brazil
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23 Apr 1960 1st performance of Ferde Grof
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24 Apr 1960 14th Tony Awards Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
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24 Apr 1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
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24 Apr 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
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24 Apr 1960 Record 4 grand slams hit today
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25 Apr 1960 The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
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25 Apr 1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
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26 Apr 1960 Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
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27 Apr 1960 Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm
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27 Apr 1960 Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
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27 Apr 1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
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27 Apr 1960 France grants Togo independence (National Day)
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27 Apr 1960 South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns
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28 Apr 1960 "Christine" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 12 performances
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28 Apr 1960 WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 May 1960 Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
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01 May 1960 Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
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01 May 1960 Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Also known as "Maharashtra Day".
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02 May 1960 Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
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02 May 1960 House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
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02 May 1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
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03 May 1960 The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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03 May 1960 The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
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04 May 1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
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06 May 1960 English Prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
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06 May 1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
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06 May 1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
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06 May 1960 More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
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07 May 1960 "Christine" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 12 performances
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07 May 1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 602 performances
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07 May 1960 "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
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07 May 1960 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
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07 May 1960 Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of the USSR
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07 May 1960 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
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08 May 1960 USSR and Cuba resume diplomatic relations
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08 May 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
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09 May 1960 Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
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09 May 1960 US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
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09 May 1960 US send U-2 over USSR
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09 May 1960 The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
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10 May 1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip
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10 May 1960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
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10 May 1960 The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
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10 May 1960 John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
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10 May 1960 US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
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11 May 1960 French liner "France" launched
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11 May 1960 In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
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11 May 1960 French liner "France" launched
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11 May 1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
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12 May 1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
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13 May 1960 Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
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13 May 1960 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
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13 May 1960 Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
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13 May 1960 WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo Puerto Rico
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14 May 1960 "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 performances
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14 May 1960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
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14 May 1960 Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis" premieres in Pottstown NY
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15 May 1960 Chicago Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 4-0
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15 May 1960 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
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15 May 1960 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 May 1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
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15 May 1960 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
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16 May 1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
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16 May 1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
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17 May 1960 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California
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17 May 1960 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
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18 May 1960 Jean Genets "Le Balcon, " premieres in Paris
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18 May 1960 Eileen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for >30 years)
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18 May 1960 Jean Genets "Le Balcon" premieres in Paris France
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19 May 1960 DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
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19 May 1960 Alan Freed & eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola
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19 May 1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
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19 May 1960 Juan Marichal debuts as San Fransisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
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19 May 1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222mph
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20 May 1960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
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21 May 1960 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
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22 May 1960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
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22 May 1960 An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
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23 May 1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
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23 May 1960 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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23 May 1960 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
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23 May 1960 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
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23 May 1960 Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
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23 May 1960 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan Puerto Rico 1st broadcast
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23 May 1960 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
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24 May 1960 Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
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24 May 1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
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25 May 1960 George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit homerun
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27 May 1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Baltimore Oriole Clint Courtney)
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27 May 1960 In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
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27 May 1960 Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt (used by Clint Courtney)
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27 May 1960 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
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28 May 1960 "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
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29 May 1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
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01 Jun 1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Jun 1960 New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
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02 Jun 1960 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
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05 Jun 1960 "George Gobel Show, " last airs on CBS-TV
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05 Jun 1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
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06 Jun 1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
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06 Jun 1960 Steve Allen Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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08 Jun 1960 Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
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09 Jun 1960 ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract
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09 Jun 1960 Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600
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11 Jun 1960 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
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11 Jun 1960 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
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12 Jun 1960 KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
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12 Jun 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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13 Jun 1960 "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
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13 Jun 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
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15 Jun 1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
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15 Jun 1960 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman
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16 Jun 1960 "Psycho, " opens in New York
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16 Jun 1960 President Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
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17 Jun 1960 The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
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17 Jun 1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th home run
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18 Jun 1960 "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 performances
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18 Jun 1960 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
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18 Jun 1960 Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
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18 Jun 1960 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
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19 Jun 1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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19 Jun 1960 Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl"
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20 Jun 1960 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt
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20 Jun 1960 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavywgt boxing title
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20 Jun 1960 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (NYC)
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20 Jun 1960 The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
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20 Jun 1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
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21 Jun 1960 Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
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23 Jun 1960 "Pat Boone Show, " last airs on ABC-TV
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23 Jun 1960 Japan signs security treaty with the US
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23 Jun 1960 The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
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25 Jun 1960 Earthquake in NE Belgium
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25 Jun 1960 Madagascar gains independence of France
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25 Jun 1960 Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
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26 Jun 1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
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26 Jun 1960 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration
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26 Jun 1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
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26 Jun 1960 The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
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26 Jun 1960 Madagascar gains its independence from France.
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26 Jun 1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
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26 Jun 1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
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27 Jun 1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge, Massachusetts
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27 Jun 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
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27 Jun 1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
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27 Jun 1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
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28 Jun 1960 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
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29 Jun 1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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29 Jun 1960 KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
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30 Jun 1960 US stops sugar import from Cuba
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30 Jun 1960 Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
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30 Jun 1960 Congo gains independence from Belgium.
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01 Jul 1960 British Somaliland becomes Somalia
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01 Jul 1960 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba
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01 Jul 1960 Ghana becomes a Republic
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01 Jul 1960 Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
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01 Jul 1960 No passports needed inside Benelux
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01 Jul 1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
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01 Jul 1960 Independence of Somalia.
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01 Jul 1960 Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its Head of state.
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02 Jul 1960 "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances
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03 Jul 1960 Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
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04 Jul 1960 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
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04 Jul 1960 Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs
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04 Jul 1960 Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
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05 Jul 1960 Mongolia adopts constitution
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06 Jul 1960 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to New York City
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07 Jul 1960 Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
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07 Jul 1960 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
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08 Jul 1960 Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
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10 Jul 1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo
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10 Jul 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
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11 Jul 1960 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City
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11 Jul 1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
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11 Jul 1960 France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
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11 Jul 1960 Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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11 Jul 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
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11 Jul 1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence
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11 Jul 1960 NL beats AL 5-3 in 28th All Star Game (Municipal Stadium, KC)
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12 Jul 1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
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12 Jul 1960 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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12 Jul 1960 Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
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12 Jul 1960 Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence
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12 Jul 1960 Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched
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12 Jul 1960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
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13 Jul 1960 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
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13 Jul 1960 US Democratic Convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate
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13 Jul 1960 AL beats NL 6-0 in 29th All Star Game (NY Yankees host)
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13 Jul 1960 Democratic Natl convention nominates Sen John F Kennedy for president
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13 Jul 1960 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
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14 Jul 1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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14 Jul 1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
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14 Jul 1960 Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
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14 Jul 1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane
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15 Jul 1960 Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
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16 Jul 1960 USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
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16 Jul 1960 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
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16 Jul 1960 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
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18 Jul 1960 1st UN troops reach Congo
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18 Jul 1960 Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns
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18 Jul 1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
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19 Jul 1960 San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
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20 Jul 1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female Premier of Ceylon
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20 Jul 1960 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
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20 Jul 1960 The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
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20 Jul 1960 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
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20 Jul 1960 USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
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21 Jul 1960 Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
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21 Jul 1960 The country of Katanga forms in Africa
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22 Jul 1960 Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
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25 Jul 1960 US Republican Convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
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26 Jul 1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms
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27 Jul 1960 VP Nixon nominated for President at Republican Convention in Chicago
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28 Jul 1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
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29 Jul 1960 J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel
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30 Jul 1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
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31 Jul 1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
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31 Jul 1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
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01 Aug 1960 Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
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01 Aug 1960 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
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01 Aug 1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
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01 Aug 1960 Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
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01 Aug 1960 Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
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03 Aug 1960 Niger gains independence from France.
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04 Aug 1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 mph
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05 Aug 1960 Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
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05 Aug 1960 Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
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06 Aug 1960 Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
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06 Aug 1960 Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
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07 Aug 1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
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07 Aug 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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07 Aug 1960 Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent from France.
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08 Aug 1960 "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
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08 Aug 1960 Ivory Coast declares independence
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08 Aug 1960 South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
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09 Aug 1960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
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10 Aug 1960 Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea
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10 Aug 1960 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
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11 Aug 1960 French colony of Chad became independent
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11 Aug 1960 Chad declares independence.
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12 Aug 1960 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
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12 Aug 1960 Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
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12 Aug 1960 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
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12 Aug 1960 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 26' 11
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12 Aug 1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m
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13 Aug 1960 USSR draws adviseors out of China
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13 Aug 1960 The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
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15 Aug 1960 Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
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15 Aug 1960 Congo (formerly Congo / Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
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15 Aug 1960 Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0
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15 Aug 1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
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15 Aug 1960 Congo (Brazzaville) gains independence from France (Natl Day)
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15 Aug 1960 UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
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16 Aug 1960 Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Republic of Congo) forms
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16 Aug 1960 Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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16 Aug 1960 Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
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16 Aug 1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
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16 Aug 1960 Republic of the Congo (Zaire) forms
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17 Aug 1960 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
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17 Aug 1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
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17 Aug 1960 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
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18 Aug 1960 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois
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18 Aug 1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
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18 Aug 1960 Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies
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18 Aug 1960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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19 Aug 1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
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19 Aug 1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
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20 Aug 1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali federation; declaring independence
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20 Aug 1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
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22 Aug 1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
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22 Aug 1960 Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352
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23 Aug 1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
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24 Aug 1960 -127 F (-88
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24 Aug 1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
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25 Aug 1960 Demonstrations against Premier Lumumba
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25 Aug 1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
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25 Aug 1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys
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27 Aug 1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims world / olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
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27 Aug 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
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28 Aug 1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
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29 Aug 1960 Jordan Premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
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30 Aug 1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
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30 Aug 1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
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31 Aug 1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
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31 Aug 1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame established
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02 Sep 1960 Tamara and Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
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02 Sep 1960 The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
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05 Sep 1960 Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal
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05 Sep 1960 President Kasavubu fires Premier Lumumba of Congo
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05 Sep 1960 Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal
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05 Sep 1960 The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
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05 Sep 1960 Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
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07 Sep 1960 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
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08 Sep 1960 German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners
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08 Sep 1960 In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
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09 Sep 1960 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
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10 Sep 1960 Abebe Bikila runs Olympic / World record marathon (2:15:16.2)
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10 Sep 1960 At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
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10 Sep 1960 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
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10 Sep 1960 Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon
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11 Sep 1960 74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64)
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11 Sep 1960 80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97)
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11 Sep 1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
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13 Sep 1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
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14 Sep 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC
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14 Sep 1960 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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14 Sep 1960 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
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14 Sep 1960 Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
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15 Sep 1960 France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments
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16 Sep 1960 Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0
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16 Sep 1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
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17 Sep 1960 Cuba nationalizes US banks
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18 Sep 1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
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18 Sep 1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
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20 Sep 1960 WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Sep 1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
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22 Sep 1960 Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
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22 Sep 1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
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22 Sep 1960 Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day)
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24 Sep 1960 International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
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24 Sep 1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
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24 Sep 1960 USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
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24 Sep 1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
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25 Sep 1960 1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
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25 Sep 1960 For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
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25 Sep 1960 New York Yankees clinch AL pennant
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25 Sep 1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses
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26 Sep 1960 Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st HR (off Jack Fisher)
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26 Sep 1960 In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
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26 Sep 1960 Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
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26 Sep 1960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
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26 Sep 1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
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28 Sep 1960 "Millionaire, " last airs on CBS-TV
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28 Sep 1960 "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own, " by Connie Francis hits #1
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28 Sep 1960 "Queen For A Day, " moves to ABC-TV
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28 Sep 1960 "Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater
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28 Sep 1960 Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
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28 Sep 1960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
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29 Sep 1960 "Johnny Ringo, " TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
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29 Sep 1960 "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances
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29 Sep 1960 "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
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29 Sep 1960 "Outlaws, " TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1960 "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in the UK
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29 Sep 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
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30 Sep 1960 West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany
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30 Sep 1960 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)
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30 Sep 1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
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01 Oct 1960 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
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01 Oct 1960 KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Oct 1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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01 Oct 1960 South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
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01 Oct 1960 Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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02 Oct 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
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03 Oct 1960 Janio Quadros elected President of Brazil
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03 Oct 1960 Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 HRs
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04 Oct 1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
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04 Oct 1960 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
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05 Oct 1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
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05 Oct 1960 Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
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05 Oct 1960 KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Oct 1960 "Route 66" premieres
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07 Oct 1960 2nd JFK and Richard Nixon debate
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07 Oct 1960 Nigeria joins the United Nations.
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08 Oct 1960 Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
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09 Oct 1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
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10 Oct 1960 "Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 performances
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10 Oct 1960 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
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10 Oct 1960 WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Oct 1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
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11 Oct 1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
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11 Oct 1960 Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
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12 Oct 1960 Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
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12 Oct 1960 Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast.
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12 Oct 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
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13 Oct 1960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in New York
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13 Oct 1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
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13 Oct 1960 Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
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13 Oct 1960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series
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14 Oct 1960 Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
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14 Oct 1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
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15 Oct 1960 "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances
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16 Oct 1960 NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league
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17 Oct 1960 "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 216 performances
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17 Oct 1960 US and Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
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18 Oct 1960 Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
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18 Oct 1960 In Britain, the News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & The London Evening Star merges with the Evening News
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19 Oct 1960 KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
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19 Oct 1960 Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba, which remains in effect today.
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19 Oct 1960 France grants Mauritania independence
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19 Oct 1960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
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19 Oct 1960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
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20 Oct 1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, Rhode Island
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20 Oct 1960 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
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21 Oct 1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
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21 Oct 1960 JFK and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (NYC)
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22 Oct 1960 Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
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24 Oct 1960 Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
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24 Oct 1960 Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
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25 Oct 1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City
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25 Oct 1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
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26 Oct 1960 AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington DC for 1961
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26 Oct 1960 AL announces Minneapolis & LA to get teams in 1961
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26 Oct 1960 AL's Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins
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27 Oct 1960 AL admits LA and Washington to the league
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27 Oct 1960 Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" and"Stand By Me"
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29 Oct 1960 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight
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29 Oct 1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
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29 Oct 1960 An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
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29 Oct 1960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
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29 Oct 1960 Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
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30 Oct 1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
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01 Nov 1960 Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
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01 Nov 1960 Benelux treaty goes into effect
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01 Nov 1960 While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
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02 Nov 1960 George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of New York Yankees
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02 Nov 1960 Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222
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02 Nov 1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
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03 Nov 1960 "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 performances
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03 Nov 1960 Ivory Coast adopts constitution
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03 Nov 1960 The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
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04 Nov 1960 "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe
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04 Nov 1960 At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
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07 Nov 1960 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
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08 Nov 1960 JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US President
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10 Nov 1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
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11 Nov 1960 Largest New York Knick 49th St. Madison Square Garden crowd - 18,499
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11 Nov 1960 Largest NY Knick 49th St MSG crowd-18,499
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12 Nov 1960 Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails
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12 Nov 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
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13 Nov 1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
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13 Nov 1960 Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
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14 Nov 1960 OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
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14 Nov 1960 Riot due to school integration in New Orleans
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14 Nov 1960 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
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15 Nov 1960 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
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15 Nov 1960 Elgin Baylor of NBA Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
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16 Nov 1960 NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
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17 Nov 1960 New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
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18 Nov 1960 Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
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18 Nov 1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
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19 Nov 1960 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
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21 Nov 1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
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22 Nov 1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
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23 Nov 1960 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
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23 Nov 1960 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd and Vine St
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23 Nov 1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
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24 Nov 1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
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25 Nov 1960 1st atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Washington
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25 Nov 1960 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone and 2nd Mrs Burton) and cancels 4 other series
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26 Nov 1960 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
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26 Nov 1960 Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
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27 Nov 1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
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27 Nov 1960 Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes President of Ivory Coast
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27 Nov 1960 Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
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27 Nov 1960 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
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27 Nov 1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
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28 Nov 1960 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
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28 Nov 1960 Mauritania becomes independent of France.
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28 Nov 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
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29 Nov 1960 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
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30 Nov 1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
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30 Nov 1960 Tad Mosels "All the Way Home, " premieres in New York City
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01 Dec 1960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
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01 Dec 1960 Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
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03 Dec 1960 "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
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03 Dec 1960 The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
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05 Dec 1960 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
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06 Dec 1960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
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07 Dec 1960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
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08 Dec 1960 Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
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09 Dec 1960 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
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09 Dec 1960 The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
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11 Dec 1960 French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.
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11 Dec 1960 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
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11 Dec 1960 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
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11 Dec 1960 Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York NY
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13 Dec 1960 While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
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13 Dec 1960 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
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13 Dec 1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
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14 Dec 1960 Australia vs West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
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14 Dec 1960 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
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14 Dec 1960 Washington Senators joins American League
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15 Dec 1960 Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
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15 Dec 1960 King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
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15 Dec 1960 King Boudouin of Belgium marries do
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16 Dec 1960 "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
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16 Dec 1960 TWA 266 and United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
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16 Dec 1960 A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and 6 more on the ground.
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16 Dec 1960 134 die as United DC-8 & TWA Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York NY
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17 Dec 1960 "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 performances
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17 Dec 1960 "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
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17 Dec 1960 Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
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17 Dec 1960 1960 Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
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17 Dec 1960 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
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18 Dec 1960 General Meeting of the UN condemns apartheid
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18 Dec 1960 General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid
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19 Dec 1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction in Brooklyn (50 die)
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19 Dec 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
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19 Dec 1960 Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
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20 Dec 1960 The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
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20 Dec 1960 Auschwitz-commandant Richard B
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23 Dec 1960 De Quay's Dutch government falls
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23 Dec 1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
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24 Dec 1960 Dutch bishops question papacy values
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26 Dec 1960 "Do Re Mi" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 400 performances
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26 Dec 1960 Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in New York City
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26 Dec 1960 Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
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26 Dec 1960 Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
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27 Dec 1960 France performs nuclear test
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