Historical Events In 1960
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Feb 29 In the year 1960 playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
Mar 03 Ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") on this day in history.
Mar 03 On this day in history sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65
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 in the year 1960.
Mar 04 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz on this day in history.
Mar 05 Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army on this day in history.
Mar 05 In the year 1960 world Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)
Mar 06 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament on this day in history.
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 In the year 1960 leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR
Mar 07 In the year 1960 michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
Mar 07 The birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player in the year 1960.
Mar 07 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 on this day in history.
Mar 07 In the year 1960 uSSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
Mar 08 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances on this day in history.
Mar 10 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing on this day in history.
Mar 11 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus in the year 1960.
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 on this day in history.
Mar 15 On this day in history key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
Mar 15 On this day in history national Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
Mar 17 In the year 1960 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 On this day in history 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 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 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes in the year 1960.
Mar 22 Patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes in the year 1960.
Mar 23 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit on this day in history.
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