Historical Events in 1960 (Part 4)

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• Nov 7 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcasting

• Nov 11 Record New York Knicks' crowd for the third Madison Square Garden venue on 49th Street, NYC; 18,499 see Knicks beat Syracuse Nationals, 112-108

• Nov 12 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
• Nov 13 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children in Amude, Spain
• Nov 14 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
• Nov 14 Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo

• Nov 14 Riot due to school integration in New Orleans

• Nov 15 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
• Nov 16 NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
• Nov 17 New MLB Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
• Nov 18 Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
• Nov 18 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
• Nov 19 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
• Nov 20 Australian driver Jack Brabham finishes 4th in season-ending US Grand Prix at Riverside Raceway to retain his F1 World Drivers Championship by 9 points from Bruce McLaren of New Zealand

• Nov 22 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
• Nov 23 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 23 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
• Nov 23 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched

• Nov 25 "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
• Nov 25 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
• Nov 25 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series
• Nov 25 Three of the four Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, are assassinated
• Nov 26 CFL Grey Cup, Empire Stadium, Vancouver: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6 for their 5th Championship
• Nov 26 Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
• Nov 26 25th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 3-0 in Birmingham
• Nov 27 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
• Nov 27 Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast

• Nov 27 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
• Nov 28 CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
• Nov 28 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
• Nov 29 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
• Nov 30 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
• Nov 30 Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC
• Dec 1 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo

• Dec 5 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
• Dec 6 MLB American League grants American entertainer and businessman Gene Autry a franchise: Los Angeles Angels
• Dec 7 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
• Dec 8 MLB expansion team Los Angeles Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium

• Dec 9 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV

• Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Peter Medawar for work on tissue grafting
• Dec 11 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers; pro-independence demonstrations turn violent, 114 die

• Dec 11 Cleveland Brown's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
• Dec 13 Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
• Dec 13 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane

• Dec 14 Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
• Dec 14 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
• Dec 14 Washington Senators joins American League
• Dec 16 "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
• Dec 16 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
• Dec 17 "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater, NYC after 835 performances
• Dec 17 "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
• Dec 17 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
• Dec 18 General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
• Dec 19 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)

• Dec 19 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
• Dec 20 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR
• Dec 20 The National Liberation Front, better known as the Viet Cong, is officially formed in South Vietnam

• Dec 23 Jan De Quay's Dutch government falls
• Dec 23 King Saud of Saudi Arabia takes power
• Dec 24 Dutch bishops question papacy values

• Dec 27 France performs nuclear test
• Dec 27 1961 NFL Draft: Tommy Mason from University of Tulane first pick by Minnesota Vikings
• Dec 28 49th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (4-1)

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