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1960 (MCMLX leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar).
1960 is known as the "
Year of Africa ."
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 World population
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December
3 Deaths
3.1 January-June 3.2 July-December
4 Nobel prizes 5 Ship events
Events January February February 1 - In Greensboro, North Carolina , four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter . Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States , and 6 months later the original 4 protesters are served lunch at the same counter.
February 3 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra , Gold Coast - now Ghana - on January 10 the same year).
February 4 - Vince Deveney and Gaetan DeSimone invent the White Widow.
February 5 - The CERN particle accelerator is inaugurated in Geneva , Switzerland .
February 9 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
February 9 - Adolph Coors III , chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company , is kidnapped and captors demand $500,000. Coors is later found dead and Joseph Corbett, Jr. is indicted.
February 10 — In Brussels , a conference about Belgian Congo independence begins.
February 11 - The airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in Massachusetts .
February 11 - Twelve Indian soldiers die in clashes with Chinese troops at their common border.
February 13 — Nuclear testing : France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara .
February 18 — The 1960 Winter Olympics open in Squaw Valley , California .
February 29 -March 1 (night) — An earthquake totally destroys Agadir , Morocco .
March April April 1 - Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad , 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia , dies in office. He is replaced by Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah , Sultan of Selangor .
April 1 - The United States launches the first weather satellite , TIROS-1 .
April 4 — The first 3 female priests are ordained in Sweden .
April 12 — Eric Peugeot, youngest son of the founder of Peugeot , is kidnapped in Paris . Kidnappers release him April 15 in exchange for $300,000 ransom .
April 13 - The United States launches navigation satellite Transat I-b.
April 13 - The Blue Streak missile is cancelled, ending the United Kingdom 's imperial ambitions.
April 16 - Gunman David Pratt attacks South African Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg , wounding him seriously.
April 16 - The Times of London abandons use of the term "Imperial and Foreign News", replacing it with "Overseas News", and changes its house style from "to-day" to "today".
April 18 - On the campaign trail in West Virginia , Senator John F. Kennedy says, in reply to a question about his Roman Catholic faith, "I don't think that my religion is anyone's business."
April 21 — In Brazil , the country's capital (Federal District ) is shifted from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília . The Guanabara State is founded to succeed Rio de Janeiro as the Brazilian Federal District .
April 27 — Togo gains independence from French -administered UN trusteeship.
May May 1 - A Soviet missile shoots down an American Lockheed U2 spy plane; the pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.
May 1 - In India, May 1st is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e., Maharashtra Day (the same day is also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e., Workers Day).
May 4 — West German refugee minister Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his Nazi past.
May 6 - President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
May 9 — Reproductive rights : The Food and Drug Administration approves the sale of the birth control pill .
May 10 — The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth .
May 11 — In Buenos Aires , 4 Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann , who was using the alias "Ricardo Klement".
May 13 — A Swiss/Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of Dhaulagiri , the world's 7th highest mountain.
May 14 — The Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded in Kenya , when 3 political parties join forces.
May 15 — Sputnik 4 is launched into Earth orbit.
May 16 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union , thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris .
May 16 - Theodore Maiman operates the first laser .
May 20 — In Japan , police carry away Socialist members of the Diet ; Parliament then approves a security treaty with the United States .
May 22 — Great Chilean Earthquake : Chile 's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to Taitao Peninsula , loosing a tsunami and one of the greatest earthquakes on record. Seismographs in Valdivia crash.
May 23 — Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
May 27 — In Turkey , a bloodless military coup d'état removes President Celal Bayar and installs General Cemal Gürsel as head of state.
June July
