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1960 Calendar

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•  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 29, 1960 – Family Circus makes its debut.
•  March 9, 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
•  April 4, 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
•  May 3, 1960 – The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
•  June 17, 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 e6acre of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
•  August 16, 1960 – Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
•  September 5, 1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
•  October 12, 1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.

•  April 28, 1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (d. 1993)
•  May 29, 1960 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
•  June 10, 1960 – Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
•  July 9, 1960 – Marc Mero, American pro wrestler
•  August 17, 1960 – Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer
•  August 28, 1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
•  September 15, 1960 – Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
•  November 10, 1960 – Dan Hawkins, American college football coach
•  December 2, 1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)
•  December 14, 1960 – Don Franklin, American actor