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1960 Calendar

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•  January 21, 1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
•  January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  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.
•  May 10, 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
•  May 11, 1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
•  May 13, 1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
•  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 1, 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
•  August 6, 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
•  September 28, 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.

•  January 23, 1960 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
•  February 19, 1960 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York
•  March 4, 1960 – Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
•  April 8, 1960 – John Schneider, American actor
•  May 29, 1960 – Neil Crone, Canadian actor
•  July 14, 1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress, comedian and singer
•  July 21, 1960 – Lance Guest, American actor
•  September 8, 1960 – David Steele, English musician
•  September 17, 1960 – John Franco, American baseball player
•  December 26, 1960 – Jim Toomey, American syndicated cartoonist