Historical Events In 1960
Sunday, 28 February 2021
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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