1960 Calendar
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1960 Historical Event(s)
January 9, 1960
– President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
January 11, 1960
– Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
January 20, 1960
– Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
January 28, 1960
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
March 5, 1960
– Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
March 9, 1960
– Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
April 26, 1960
– Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
September 24, 1960
– USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
November 28, 1960
– Mauritania becomes independent of France.
December 9, 1960
– The first episode of the world’s longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
Who Were Born On 1960?
January 17, 1960
– John Crawford, American musician
January 31, 1960
– Grant Morrison, British comic author
May 4, 1960
– Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
October 2, 1960
– Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter
October 8, 1960
– Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
October 25, 1960
– Christina Amphlett, lead vocalist for The Divinyls
November 4, 1960
– Marc Awodey, American artist and writer
November 12, 1960
– Ismo Alanko, Finnish musician (Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet, Ismo Alanko Säätiö)
December 3, 1960
– Daryl Hannah, American actress
December 21, 1960
– Louis Demetrius Alvanis, British pianist