1960 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1960?
- January 21, 1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
- 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 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 13, 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 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 9, 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.
- 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 27, 1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- June 26, 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
- July 8, 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
- July 20, 1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world’s first elected female head of government.
- August 3, 1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
- August 8, 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
- August 12, 1960 – Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, is launched.
- August 16, 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102800 ft, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
- August 17, 1960 – Decolonization: Gabon gains independence from France.
- September 14, 1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
- September 22, 1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- September 26, 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
- October 30, 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
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