Historical Events In 1960

Feb 29   In the year 1960 playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago   

Mar 03   Ninth largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") on this day in history.   

Mar 03   In the year 1960 sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65   

Mar 04   French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 on this day in history.   

Mar 04   On this day in history leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48   

Mar 04   Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz in the year 1960.   

Mar 05   Elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army on this day in history.   

Mar 05   On this day in history world Ice Dance Championship in Vancouver won by Doreen Denny & Courtney Jones (Great Britain)   

Mar 06   In the year 1960 president Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament   

Mar 07   "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances in the year 1960.   

Mar 07   "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 performances on this day in history.   

Mar 07   In the year 1960 dutch Builders strike for CLA   

Mar 07   Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of USSR in the year 1960.   

Mar 07   On this day in history michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship   

Mar 07   On this day in history the birth of Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player   

Mar 07   In the year 1960 uSS Kearsarge (CVS-33) rescues 4 Russian soldiers from their landing craft 1,000 miles from Midway Island, which was drifting several weeks after their engine failed off Kamchatka Peninsula.   

Mar 07   USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy in the year 1960.   

Mar 08   In the year 1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances   

Mar 10   On this day in history uSSR agrees to stop nuclear testing   

Mar 11   In the year 1960 pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus   

Mar 11   Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 in the year 1960.   

Mar 13   Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship in the year 1960.   

Mar 14   In the year 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA   

Mar 14   In the year 1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif   

Mar 15   On this day in history key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)   

Mar 15   In the year 1960 national Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated   

Mar 17   On this day in history eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA   

Mar 19   On this day in history "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances   

Mar 19   On this day in history 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Ohio State beats California 75-55   

Mar 19   22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55 in the year 1960.   

Mar 21   In the year 1960 in the black township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire on a group of peaceful black demonstrators, killing sixty-nine people and wounding nearly two hundred in a hail of sub-machine gunfire.   

Mar 22   1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes in the year 1960.   

Mar 22   In the year 1960 patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes   

Mar 23   Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit in the year 1960.   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87)   

Jan 02   In the year 1960 birth of naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author   

Jan 03   Joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor) was born in the year 1960.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India   

Jan 04   In the year 1960 birth of cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder (6X Ms Olympia)   

Jan 04   Michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1960 birth of april Winchell, American actress   

Jan 05   In the year 1960 birth of steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)   

Jan 01   Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48 died in the year 1960.   

Jan 02   Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1960 albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46   

Jan 05   In the year 1960 donald Knight, cricketer (54 runs in 2 Tests for England 1921), dies   

Jan 06   Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 in the year 1960.   

Jan 07   In the year 1960 luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)