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1960 Calendar

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•  January 6, 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
•  January 23, 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
•  January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  February 3, 1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the “a wind of change” of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
•  February 29, 1960 – An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.
•  May 3, 1960 – The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City’s Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
•  May 7, 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
•  July 11, 1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
•  August 19, 1960 – Sputnik program: Sputnik 5 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
•  September 24, 1960 – USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.

•  January 5, 1960 – Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)
•  February 16, 1960 – Cherie Chung, Hong Kong actress
•  March 7, 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
•  April 15, 1960 – Tony Jones, English snooker player
•  June 17, 1960 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor
•  August 8, 1960 – Ulrich Maly, German politician
•  September 17, 1960 – John Bottomley, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
•  September 21, 1960 – David James Elliott, Canadian actor
•  October 2, 1960 – Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
•  October 13, 1960 – Tim Brewster, American football coach