1960 Calendar
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1960 Historical Event(s)
- January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
- March 5, 1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
- April 1, 1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- May 3, 1960 – The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- July 1, 1960 – Independence of Somalia.
- July 11, 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
- November 9, 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
- November 28, 1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France.
- December 16, 1960 – 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York’s Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.
Who Were Born On 1960?
- February 24, 1960 – Nick Esasky, American baseball player
- March 10, 1960 – Lance Burton, American stage illusionist
- March 27, 1960 – Hans Pflügler, German footballer
- May 10, 1960 – Dean Heller, American politician
- June 25, 1960 – Craig Johnston, Australian footballer
- July 31, 1960 – Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player
- September 30, 1960 – Julia Adamson, composer/musician
- October 2, 1960 – Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
- October 13, 1960 – Joey Belladonna, American musician (Anthrax)
- December 24, 1960 – Carol Vorderman, British television presenter