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1960




Events:

   * January 1 - Independence of Cameroon
   * January 11 - Chad declares its independence.
   * January 23 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in the bathyscaphe USS
     Trieste break a depth record when they descend to the bottom of
     Challenger Deep 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) below sea level in the
     Pacific Ocean.
   * January 25 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the
     Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disk jockeys who accepted
     money for playing particular records
   * February 9 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood
     Walk of Fame.
   * February 13 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb.
   * February 21 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in
     Cuba.
   * February 29 - Earthquake totally destoys Agadir, Morocco.
   * March 6 - Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American
     troops are going to be sent to Vietnam.
   * March 21 - Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Afrikaner
     police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African
     demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
   * March 22 - A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes receive the first patent for a
     laser.
   * April 1 - The United States launches the first weather satellite,
     TIROS-1.
   * April 27 - Togo gains independence from French-administered UN
     trusteeship.
   * May 9 - Reproductive rights: The Food and Drug Administration approves
     sale of the birth control pill.
   * May 10 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus completes the first under
     water circumnavigation of the earth.
   * May 11 - In Buenos Aires four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi Adolf
     Eichmann who was using the assumed name "Ricardo Klement."
   * May 15 - Sputnik 4 is launched into Earth orbit.
   * May 16 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight
     D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus
     ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
   * May 23 - Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi
     war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
   * May 27 - In Turkey, General Cemal GŸrsel leads a military coup d'etat
     removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic
     government.
   * June 20 - Independence of Mali and Senegal
   * November - John F. Kennedy defeats Richard M. Nixon in the U.S.
     presidential election
   * July 1 - A Soviet MiG fighter north of Murmansk in the Barents Sea shot
     down a six-man RB-47 crew. Two young United States Air Force officers
     survived and were imprisoned in Moscow's dreaded Lubyanka prison. (see
     RB-47H shot down)
   * July 4 - With the admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state earlier in
     the year, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia,
     Pennsylvania.
   * July 20 - Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) elected Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime
     Minister, the world's first female head of government.
   * August 6 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo,
     Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
   * August 7 - C™te d'Ivoire becomes independent.
   * August 16 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico
     at 102,800 feet (31,333 m). He sets unbeaten (as of 2003) world records
     for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before
     opening his parachute; and fastest speed by a human without an
     aircraft, 614 mph (982 kph).
   * August 16 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
   * August 17 - Gabon gains independence from France.
   * August 19 - Cold War: In Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary
     Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for
     espionage.
   * August 19 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 5 with
     the dogs Belka and Strelka (Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"),
     40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. The spacecraft will return to
     earth the next day and all animals will be recovered safely.
   * August 20 - Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring
     independence.
   * December 1 - Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the Republic if
     the Congo was arrested by troops of Col. Joseph Mobutu
   * December 1 - A 5-ton Soviet space ship containing animals, insects and
     plants was launched into orbit. The spacecraft burned up upon re-entry.
   * December 2 - The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Geoffrey
     Francis Fisher, talked with Pope John XXIII for about an hour in the
     Vatican. It was the first time in more than 500 years that a head of
     the Anglican church had visited the Pope.
   * December 2 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the use of
     $1M for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees in Florida. Cuban
     refugees were arriving in Florida at the rate of 1,000 a week.
   * December 4 - Admission to the United Nations of Mauritania was vetoed
     by the USSR.
   * December 5 - Pierre Lagaillarde, who led 1958 and 1960 insurrections in
     Algeria, failed to appear in a Paris court. He was reported to have
     fled with 4 fellow defendants to Spain en route to Algeria.
   * December 7 - The United Nations Security Council was called into
     session by the USSR to consider the Soviet demands that the U.N. seek
     the immediate release of former Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba.
   * December 9 - French President Charles de Gaulle's visit to Algeria was
     marked by bloody riots by European and Muslim mobs in Algeria's largest
     cities, killing 127 people.
   * December 12 - A Federal Court ruling that Louisiana's anti-integration
     laws were unconstitutional was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
   * December 13 - While the Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was on a
     visit to Brazil, a revolt against his rule was carried out by his
     Imperial Guard. The rebels proclaimed the emperor's son, Crown Prince
     Asfa-Wossen.
   * December 14 - Antione Gizenga proclaimed in Stanleyville in the
     Republic of the Congo that he had assumed the premiership.
   * December 15 - King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva of Nepal deposed the
     government and took power into his own hands.
   * December 16 - U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter announced that
     the United States would commit five atomic submarines and 80 Polaris
     missiles to NATO by the end of 1963.
   * December 16 - A collision of a United Airlines DC-8 and a TWA
     Super-Constellation over New York City killed 128 on planes and 6 on
     the ground.
   * December 17 - Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia suppressed
     the revolt that started on December 13 and gave power back to their
     leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolved his son of
     any guilt.
   * December 19 - Fire swept through the USS Constellation, the U.S.'s
     largest aircraft carrier, while it was under construction at a Brooklyn
     Navy Yard pier, injuring 150 and killing 50.
   * December 20 - Discoverer XIX was launched into polar orbit from
     Vandenberg Air Force Base, Caifornia. It was designed to measure
     radiation.
   * December 27 - France set off its third nuclear test blast at its atomic
     proving grounds at Reggan, Algeria.
   * December 31 - The farthing coin, used in Great Britain since the 13th
     century, ceases to be legal tender.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1960 in film
        o The Apartment
        o Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas,
          Laurence Olivier, John Gavin, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton,
          Peter Ustinov, and Tony Curtis.
        o Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
        o The Alamo starring John Wayne
   * 1960 in television
        o February 11 - Jack Paar walks off his TV show because his
          monologue had been edited the night before, in favor of a three
          minute news update. Parr walked out at the beginning of the show,
          announced that he was quiting, said "There's got to be a better
          way to make a living," and walked off the stage. After network
          executives personally apologized, Parr returned to the show a
          month later. His first show back started with the words "As I was
          saying before I was interrupted..."
        o American Presidential Candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M.
          Nixon debate live on television. The candidates behavior during
          the debate most likely altered the outcome of the election. In
          addition to being the first Presidential debates to be broadcast
          on television, the debates also marked the first time "split
          screen" images were used by a network.
        o The Andy Griffith Show premieres
        o Hanna Barbara's The Flintstones make their debut
        o 90% of homes in the United States now own a television set, and
          over one hundred million television sets in use worldwide

Births:

   * January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
   * January 4 - Michael Stipe, singer for R.E.M.
   * January 6 - Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef, writer
   * January 6 - Howie Long, American football star
   * January 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor
   * January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
   * January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
   * January 22 - Michael Hutchence, musician ("INXS") (+ 1997)
   * January 24 - Nastassja Kinski, actress
   * January 29 - Greg Louganis, Olympics gold medalist in swimming
   * February 11 - Richard A Mastracchio, astronaut.
   * February 19 - Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II
   * February 29 - Tony Robbins, motivational speaker
   * March 4 - Mykelti Williamson, actor
   * March 7 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player
   * March 13 - Adam Clayton, bassist for the rock band U2
   * March 21 - Ayrton Senna, automobile racer (+ 1994)
   * March 26 - Marcus Allen, American football star
   * April 4 - Hugo Weaving, actor
   * April 26 - Roger Taylor, musician ("Duran Duran")
   * May 10 - Bono, singer of U2
   * May 18 - Yannick Noah, tennis player
   * May 21 - Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer
   * September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
   * October 30 - Diego Maradona, soccer player
   * November 10 - Neil Gaiman, author
   * November 25 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer and journalist (+1999)

Deaths:

   * January 4 - Albert Camus Author Nobel Prize winner 1957
   * January 12 - Nevil Shute, writer
   * January 24 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor
   * November 5 - Mack Sennett, pioneer producer/director

Nobel Prizes:

   * Physics - Donald Arthur Glaser
   * Chemistry - Willard Frank Libby
   * Medicine - Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar
   * Literature - Saint-John Perse
   * Peace - Albert John Luthuli

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