Historical Events In 1960

Feb 29   Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago on this day in history.  

Mar 03   On this day in history ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")  

Mar 03   Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 in the year 1960.  

Mar 04   On this day in history french freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100  

Mar 04   On this day in history leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48  

Mar 04   On this day in history lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz  

Mar 05   On this day in history elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army.  

Mar 05   World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain) in the year 1960.  

Mar 06   On this day in history president Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament  

Mar 07   On this day in history "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances  

Mar 07   On this day in history "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances  

Mar 07   On this day in history dutch Builders strike for CLA  

Mar 07   Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR in the year 1960.  

Mar 07   Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship on this day in history.  

Mar 07   On this day in history the birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player  

Mar 07   In the year 1960 uSS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which was drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula.  

Mar 07   USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on this day in history.  

Mar 08   In the year 1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances  

Mar 10   On this day in history uSSR agrees to stop nuclear testing  

Mar 11   Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on this day in history.  

Mar 11   On this day in history roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76  

Mar 13   Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship on this day in history.  

Mar 14   14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA on this day in history.  

Mar 14   14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif on this day in history.  

Mar 15   In the year 1960 key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)  

Mar 15   National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated on this day in history.  

Mar 17   Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA in the year 1960.  

Mar 19   On this day in history "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances  

Mar 19   22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Ohio State beats California 75-55 in the year 1960.  

Mar 19   On this day in history 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55  

Mar 21   In the black township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire on a group of peaceful black demonstrators, killing sixty-nine people and wounding nearly two hundred in a hail of sub-machine gunfire in the year 1960.  

Mar 22   In the year 1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes  

Mar 22   In the year 1960 patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes  

Mar 23   Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   Raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87) was born in the year 1960.  

Jan 02   In the year 1960 birth of naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author  

Jan 03   Joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder (6X Ms Olympia) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand)  

Jan 04   April Winchell, American actress was born on this day in history.  

Jan 05   Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series) was born in the year 1960.  

Jan 01   Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48 died in the year 1960.  

Jan 02   On this day in history cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60  

Jan 03   Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80 in the year 1960.  

Jan 04   On this day in history albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46  

Jan 05   Donald Knight, cricketer (54 runs in 2 Tests for England 1921), dies on this day in history.  

Jan 06   Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 in the year 1960.  

Jan 07   Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1960.  

Jan 09   Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880) died on this day in history.