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 13, 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- April 4, 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 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.
- August 12, 1960 – Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, is launched.
- August 15, 1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
- August 16, 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- September 18, 1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
- September 22, 1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 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.
Who Were Born On 1960?
- March 4, 1960 – Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
- March 7, 1960 – Joe Carter, American baseball player
- April 19, 1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
- June 18, 1960 – Steve Murphy, Canadian news anchor
- September 2, 1960 – Eric Dickerson, American football player
- September 28, 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
- October 29, 1960 – Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer
- October 30, 1960 – Diego Maradona, Argentine footballer
- December 22, 1960 – Wakin Chau, Chinese singer
- December 28, 1960 – James Caan, British-Pakistani entrepreneur