1960 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1960?
- January 19, 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- January 21, 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.
- January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 29, 1960 – Family Circus makes its debut.
- March 5, 1960 – Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
- March 21, 1960 – Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
- April 4, 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- May 3, 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.
- May 7, 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
- May 11, 1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
- May 16, 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
- July 4, 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, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
- August 5, 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
- August 16, 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- September 26, 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
- September 28, 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
- October 24, 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
- November 11, 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
- November 25, 1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
- December 15, 1960 – Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
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