Historical Events In 1960

Apr 25 Hope Emerson actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62

Apr 10 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

Apr 04 Senegal declares independence from France

Apr 08 Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee

Apr 13 Transit 1B, first navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit

Apr 13 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara

Apr 15 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizes at Shaw U

Apr 27 The first atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)

Apr 18 French President Charles de Gaulle arrives in Ottawa for four-day visit.

Apr 04 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center

Apr 30 Lt. Gen. H.D. Graham leaves the Canadian armed forces; last officer with a World War I ribbon to retire.

Apr 08 RCA (TV &Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched

Apr 13 France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara And atom here, an atom there

Nov 12 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails

Nov 28 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)

Nov 25 The first atomic reactor for research &development, Richland Wa

Nov 13 Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt

Nov 08 Masachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy wins the U.S. presidential election, defeating Vice President Richard Nixon.

Nov 13 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)

Nov 27 Gordie Howe becomes first NHLer to score 1,000 points

Nov 23 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched

Nov 06 The last steam locomotive to operate officially on Canadian Pacific pulls a special train to St. Lin from Montreal. Locomotive is class A-l-e no. 29, 4-4-0 built in 1887.

Nov 14 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)

Nov 18 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration

Nov 29 A freight train crashes into a school bus at Lamont, Alberta causing the deaths of 17 high school students

Nov 30 The First International Harvester Scoutt all-terrain vehicle rolled off the assembly line at International Harvester's Fort Wayne plant

Nov 27 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38

Nov 09 JFK elected as American president,becoming the youngest ever, at the age of 43

Nov 01 Benelux treaty goes into effect

Nov 10 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

Nov 08 JFK (MA-D-Sen) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President

Nov 06 The aircraft carrier Antietam left British Honduras for Pensacola after 4 days of relief operations following hurricane Hattie.

Nov 03 Willard Libby is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing carbon-14 dating

Nov 28 Mauritania declares independence from France

Sep 10 Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon

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