Historical Events In 1960
Monday, 08 August 2022
Feb 29 In the year 1960 playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
Mar 03 Ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") in the year 1960.
Mar 03 Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 on this day in history.
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 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz in the year 1960.
Mar 05 Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army in the year 1960.
Mar 05 In the year 1960 world Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)
Mar 06 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament in the year 1960.
Mar 07 "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances on this day in history.
Mar 07 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances on this day in history.
Mar 07 Dutch Builders strike for CLA on this day in history.
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 in the year 1960.
Mar 07 The birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player in the year 1960.
Mar 07 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 in the year 1960.
Mar 07 USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on this day in history.
Mar 08 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances on this day in history.
Mar 10 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing on this day in history.
Mar 11 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on this day in history.
Mar 11 Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 in the year 1960.
Mar 13 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship on this day in history.
Mar 14 In the year 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA
Mar 14 In the year 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif
Mar 15 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) in the year 1960.
Mar 15 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated in the year 1960.
Mar 17 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA on this day in history.
Mar 19 "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances in the year 1960.
Mar 19 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Ohio State beats California 75-55 on this day in history.
Mar 19 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55 in the year 1960.
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 on this day in history.
Mar 22 On this day in history 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 In the year 1960 explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Next Page »