Historical Events In 1960

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

Mar 03   Ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") on this day in history.  

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

Mar 04   French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 on this day in history.  

Mar 04   Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48 in the year 1960.  

Mar 04   In the year 1960 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) on this day in history.  

Mar 06   In the year 1960 president Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament  

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

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

Mar 07   Dutch Builders strike for CLA in the year 1960.  

Mar 07   Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history uSSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy  

Mar 08   "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances on this day in history.  

Mar 10   In the year 1960 uSSR agrees to stop nuclear testing  

Mar 11   On this day in history pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus  

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 in the year 1960.  

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

Mar 15   Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) on this day in history.  

Mar 15   National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated in the year 1960.  

Mar 17   In the year 1960 eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA  

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

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

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 in the year 1960.  

Mar 22   On this day in history 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes  

Mar 22   On this day in history patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes  

Mar 23   Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit in the year 1960.  

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Jan 02   Raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor)  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder (6X Ms Olympia)  

Jan 04   Michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   In the year 1960 birth of april Winchell, American actress  

Jan 05   In the year 1960 birth of steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)  

Jan 01   On this day in history death of margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48  

Jan 02   Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60 in the year 1960.  

Jan 03   On this day in history victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80  

Jan 04   Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46 on this day in history.  

Jan 05   In the year 1960 donald Knight, cricketer (54 runs in 2 Tests for England 1921), dies  

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

Jan 07   On this day in history luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80  

Jan 09   Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880) died in the year 1960.