1960 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 372 of 372

Oct 12 JFK & Richard Nixon's third presidential debate

Oct 12 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session

Oct 13 Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba

Oct 14 Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy in a sppech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

Oct 16 NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
Oct 17 US & Britain sign accord for nuclear submarine bases
Oct 18 In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
Oct 19 France grants Mauritania independence

Oct 19 Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in

Oct 19 US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
Oct 20 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
Oct 20 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
Oct 21 1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched
Oct 21 JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
Oct 24 Disaster on USSR's Baikonoer launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
Oct 25 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
Oct 25 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
Oct 27 AL admits LA & Washington to the league
Oct 29 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
Oct 30 Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
Oct 30 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Nov 2 Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

Nov 4 Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey discover first Homo habilis jaw fragments (OH 7) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Nov 8 John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon who was the incumbent Vice President

Nov 12 Coup against South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm fails

Nov 12 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
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 18 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
Nov 19 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
Nov 21 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
Nov 22 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
Nov 23 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
Nov 25 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa
Nov 25 Three of the four Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, are assassinated
Nov 27 Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
Nov 27 Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
Nov 28 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
Nov 30 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
Nov 30 Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC

Dec 2 Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus (Olduvai Hominid 9) in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Dec 10 Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).

Dec 11 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
Dec 11 Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
Dec 13 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
Dec 14 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
Dec 16 TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
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 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