Page 4: Historical Events In 1960

Mar 03   Ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")   

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

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

Mar 04   Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48.   

Mar 04   Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz   

Mar 05   Elvis Presley is recorded as becoming a civilian after spending two years in the US Army.   

Mar 05   World Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny and Courtney Jones (Great Britain)   

Mar 06   President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament.   

Mar 07   "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances   

Mar 07   "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances   

Mar 07   Dutch Builders strike for CLA.   

Mar 07   In this year, Leonid Brezhnev adopts in place of Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR   

Mar 07   Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player is born.   

Mar 07   Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship   

Mar 07   USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1000 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   

Mar 08   "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances   

Mar 10   USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing   

Mar 11   Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus.   

Mar 11   Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76   

Mar 13   In this year, Fay Crocker claims LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.   

Mar 14   14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA   

Mar 14   14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif   

Mar 15   Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)   

Mar 15   National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated.   

Mar 17   Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA.   

Mar 19   "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances   

Mar 19   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   

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   

Mar 22   1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes.   

Mar 22   Patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes   

Mar 23   Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit.   

Mar 23   Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78   

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Jan 02   Raman lamba: Cricketer (indian opening batsman 1986-87)   

Jan 02   Naoki urasawa: Japanese manga author   

Jan 03   Joan chen: [chen chung], shanghai china, actress (last emperor)   

Jan 03   Sandeep marwah founder of film city: Noida, india   

Jan 04   Cory everson: Racine wisconsin, body builder (6x ms olympia)   

Jan 04   Michael stipe: Us rock vocalist (rem-losing my religion, stand)   

Jan 04   April winchell: American actress   

Jan 05   Steve jones: British aviator (red bull air race world series)   

Jan 01   Margaret sullavan: Actress (back street), overdose at 48   

Jan 02   Cees [cornelis j] laseur: Dutch actor/dir (hague comedy),   

Jan 03   Victor seastrom: Entertainer,   

Jan 04   Albert camus: French author (stranger),   

Jan 05   Donald knight: Cricketer (54 runs in 2 tests for england 1921),   

Jan 06   Edith barstow: Choreographer (frankie laine time),    

Jan 07   Luis da costa: Composer,    

Jan 09   Elsie j. oxenham: British children's author (b. 1880)