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.
- 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.
Who Were Born On 1960?
- 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