Page 4: Historical Events In 1960
Thursday, 03 July 2025
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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