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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.
•  February 8, 1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
•  April 21, 1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
•  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.
•  July 11, 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
•  September 5, 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
•  September 18, 1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
•  September 29, 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
•  October 29, 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
•  December 11, 1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.

•  January 6, 1960 – Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
•  February 29, 1960 – Khaled, Algerian raï musician
•  March 7, 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
•  March 17, 1960 – Vicki Lewis, American actress
•  April 29, 1960 – Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian writer
•  June 20, 1960 – John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
•  August 13, 1960 – Phil Taylor, English darts player
•  September 2, 1960 – Hideo Yoshizawa, Japanese video game designer and executive, General Manager at Namco Bandai Holdings
•  September 28, 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer
•  October 8, 1960 – Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur