Events Date 1960 July | History by KabAstro

Music History

Jul 1 Benjamin Britten's cantata "Carmen Baseliense" premieres in Basel, Switzerland

Event of Interest

Jul 1 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba

Cuban Revolutionary and President Fidel Castro

Jul 1 First Nations peoples in Canada granted the right to vote in Federal elections, while still retaining their status and treaty rights [1]
Jul 1 Ghana becomes a republic
Jul 1 No passports needed inside Benelux
Jul 1 Robert Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons" premieres in London
Jul 1 The independent Somali Democratic Republic, commonly known as Somalia, is formed out of former British and Italian territories
Jul 1 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Neale Fraser wins is first and only Wimbledon singles title; beats Rod Laver 6-4, 3-6, 9-7, 7-5

Once Upon A Mattress

Jul 2 Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer's musical "Once Upon A Mattress", starring Carol Burnett and directed by George Abbott, closes at St. James Theater, NYC, after 470 performances

Wimbledon Women's Tennis

Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil beats South African Sandra Reynolds 8–6, 6–0

Jul 4 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled

LPGA Championship

Jul 4 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Sheraton Hotel CC: Mickey Wright wins by 3 from Louise Suggs

Golfer and Co-Founder of the LPGA Louise Suggs

Baseball Record

Jul 4 Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle hits 3-run homer vs Washington, 18th MLB player to hit 300 HRs

Jul 5 Mongolia adopts constitution
Jul 6 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
Jul 7 US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands
Jul 7 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
Jul 8 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey

British Golf Open

Jul 9 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Australian Kel Nagle wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Arnold Palmer in the centenary year of the Open Championship

Jul 10 Belgium sends troops to Congo
Jul 10 UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Viktor Ponedelnik scores in extra time as Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia, 2-1

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jul 11 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

Jul 11 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
Jul 11 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
Jul 11 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence
Jul 11 Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independent
Jul 12 Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
Jul 12 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
Jul 12 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
Jul 13 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
Jul 13 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA

JFK Nominated

Jul 13 US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate

Jul 14 Fire rages through a Guatemala City insane asylum killing 225 and severely injuring 300

Sports History

Jul 15 Baltimore's future Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle in the Orioles' 5-2 win over the Chicago White Sox

The Twist Dance Craze

Jul 15 Chubby Checker releases his version of "The Twist" in the US (date approximate)

Jul 15 UN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis after Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé's declaration of independence for Katanga province
Jul 16 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer [1]
Jul 16 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
Jul 17 47th Tour de France won by Gastone Nencini of Italy
Jul 18 1st UN troops reach Congo
Jul 18 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston and NY franchises
Jul 18 Premier Kishi of Japan resigns
Jul 19 Italian government of Tambroni resigns
Jul 20 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
Jul 20 The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage
Jul 20 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
Jul 21 Country of Katanga forms in Africa

Event of Interest

Jul 21 Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing

Election of Interest

Jul 21 Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's 1st female elected head of government, as Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

World's 1st Female Head of State Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Jul 22 Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories

US Women's Open

Jul 23 US Open Women's Golf, Worcester CC: Betsy Rawls wins her 4th Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Joyce Ziske

Jul 24 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Jay Hebert wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Australian Jim Ferrier
Jul 25 Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
Jul 26 Italian government of Fanfani forms