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") in the year 1960.  

Mar 03   Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 04   In the year 1960 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   Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1960 "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   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   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   On this day in history uSSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy  

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

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

Mar 11   In the year 1960 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 in the year 1960.  

Mar 14   On this day in history 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) on this day in history.  

Mar 15   In the year 1960 national Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated  

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   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 on this day in history.  

Mar 21   On this day in history 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   1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes on this day in history.  

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

Mar 23   In the year 1960 explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit  

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87)  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author  

Jan 03   In the year 1960 birth of joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor)  

Jan 03   In the year 1960 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   In the year 1960 birth of michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand)  

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

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

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

Jan 06   Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 on this day in history.  

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

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