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1960 Calendar
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1960 Historical Event(s)
- 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 18, 1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
- 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.
- January 30, 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
- June 1, 1960 – New Zealand’s first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland.
- 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.
- August 8, 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
- October 29, 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
- November 2, 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
Who Were Born On 1960?
- March 28, 1960 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist
- July 8, 1960 – Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer
- July 14, 1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress, comedian and singer
- July 18, 1960 – Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
- July 19, 1960 – Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
- August 2, 1960 – Neal Morse, American keyboardist and vocalist (Spock’s Beard, Transatlantic)
- September 10, 1960 – Colin Firth, English actor
- September 16, 1960 – Yianna Katsoulos, French singer
- November 8, 1960 – Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
- December 27, 1960 – Maryam d'Abo, British actress