Page 4: 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   Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

Mar 04   In the year 1960 french freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100   

Mar 04   In the year 1960 leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48   

Mar 04   In the year 1960 lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz   

Mar 05   In the year 1960 elvis Presley becomes a civilian after spending two years in the US Army.   

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

Mar 06   President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament in the year 1960.   

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

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

Mar 07   On this day in history dutch Builders strike for CLA   

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

Mar 07   In the year 1960 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   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 on this day in history.   

Mar 07   USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy on this day in history.   

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

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

Mar 11   Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on this day in history.   

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   14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA on this day in history.   

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

Mar 15   In the year 1960 key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)   

Mar 15   National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 21   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

Mar 23   In the year 1960 explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit   

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Jan 02   Raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87) was born in the year 1960.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author   

Jan 03   Joan Chen, [Chen Chung], Shanghai China, actress (Last Emperor) was born on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history birth of michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand)   

Jan 04   April Winchell, American actress was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   In the year 1960 death of margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48   

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   Donald Knight, cricketer (54 runs in 2 Tests for England 1921), dies on this day in history.   

Jan 06   On this day in history edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52   

Jan 07   Luis da Costa, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1960.   

Jan 09   Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880) died in the year 1960.