Historical Events In 1960

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 in the year 1960.  

Mar 04   French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 in the year 1960.  

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

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

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

Mar 07   "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances in the year 1960.  

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

Mar 07   In the year 1960 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   The birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player on this day in history.  

Mar 07   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Mar 10   USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing in the year 1960.  

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

Mar 11   Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 in the year 1960.  

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

Mar 14   In the year 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA  

Mar 14   14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif in the year 1960.  

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   On this day in history eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA  

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 in the year 1960.  

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

Mar 22   Patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes on this day in history.  

Mar 23   In the year 1960 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 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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   On this day in history birth of steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)  

Jan 01   In the year 1960 death of margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48  

Jan 02   In the year 1960 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   In the year 1960 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 in the year 1960.  

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