Page 4: Historical Events In 1960

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

Mar 03   In the year 1960 ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")   

Mar 03   In the year 1960 sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65   

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

Mar 05   Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army in the year 1960.   

Mar 05   On this day in history 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   On this day in history "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances   

Mar 07   "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances in the year 1960.   

Mar 07   Dutch Builders strike for CLA on this day in history.   

Mar 07   In the year 1960 leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR   

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 on this day in history.   

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   "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances in the year 1960.   

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

Mar 11   In the year 1960 pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus   

Mar 11   Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Mar 13   In the year 1960 fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship   

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

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 21   In the year 1960 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.   

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   On this day in history explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit   

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

Jan 02   Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author was born in the year 1960.   

Jan 03   Joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor) was born in the year 1960.   

Jan 03   Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India was born in the year 1960.   

Jan 04   Cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder (6X Ms Olympia) was born in the year 1960.   

Jan 04   Michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand) was born in the year 1960.   

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

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

Jan 06   On this day in history edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52   

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

Jan 09   In the year 1960 death of elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)