1960 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1960?
- January 6, 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
- January 11, 1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
- January 19, 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- January 20, 1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
- January 23, 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
- January 24, 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.
- January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 1, 1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- February 29, 1960 – An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.
- May 15, 1960 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
- May 24, 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
- June 1, 1960 – New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- August 7, 1960 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
- August 16, 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- August 19, 1960 – Sputnik program: Sputnik 5 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
- October 7, 1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations.
- October 12, 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
- December 9, 1960 – The first episode of the world’s longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- December 20, 1960 – National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
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