Page 4: Historical Events In 1960

Feb 29   Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago in the year 1960.   

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

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   Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48 on this day in history.   

Mar 04   Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz in the year 1960.   

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   In the year 1960 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   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   On this day in history michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship   

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   USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy in the year 1960.   

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

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

Mar 11   Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on this day in history.   

Mar 11   In the year 1960 roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76   

Mar 13   Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship in the year 1960.   

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

Mar 19   In the year 1960 "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances   

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

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   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   Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit on this day in history.   

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

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 in the year 1960.   

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

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   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 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   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 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880) died on this day in history.