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1960 Calendar

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•  January 20, 1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
•  January 26, 1960 – Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
•  January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  February 8, 1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
•  March 5, 1960 – Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
•  May 9, 1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle’s Enovid, making Enovid the world’s first approved oral contraceptive pill.
•  July 14, 1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
•  July 20, 1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
•  September 26, 1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
•  November 11, 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.

•  February 18, 1960 – Greta Scacchi, Australian actress
•  March 15, 1960 – Mike Pagliarulo, American baseball player
•  March 16, 1960 – Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
•  May 10, 1960 – Bono, Irish singer (U2)
•  June 24, 1960 – Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director
•  September 1, 1960 – Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer
•  September 10, 1960 – Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
•  September 25, 1960 – Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
•  October 8, 1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
•  October 19, 1960 – Jennifer Holliday, American singer and actress