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1960 Calendar

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•  January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  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.
•  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.
•  May 15, 1960 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
•  July 20, 1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
•  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.
•  September 8, 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
•  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.

•  February 13, 1960 – Matt Salinger, American actor
•  April 23, 1960 – Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
•  June 19, 1960 – Luke Morley, British guitarist
•  June 21, 1960 – Kevin Harlan, American sportscaster
•  July 14, 1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress, comedian and singer
•  August 16, 1960 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
•  October 8, 1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
•  November 11, 1960 – Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
•  November 27, 1960 – Ken O'Brien, American football player
•  December 14, 1960 – Chris Waddle, English footballer