Historical Events in 1960 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 608

• May 14 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
• May 14 Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis" premieres in Potsdam, NY
• May 15 "L'Avventura", Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti. premieres at Cannes

• May 15 Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0

• May 15 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
• May 15 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
• May 15 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
• May 16 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
• May 16 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California
• May 17 1st atomic reactor system patented by J W Flora of Canoga Park, California
• May 18 Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for almost 30 yrs)

• May 19 Alan Freed & eight other radio DJs accused of taking radio payola (bribes from record companies)
• May 19 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed

• May 19 USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m

• May 20 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog

• May 22 A magnitude 9.4-9.6 earthquake strikes near the city of Valdivia in Chile, the strongest ever recorded, causing multiple tsunamis and killing 1,000-7,000 people
• May 22 Tsunami generated by a magnitude 9.4-9.6 earthquake in Chile strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM, severely damaging virtually all coastal towns between the 37th and 44th parallels
• May 23 "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24

• May 23 WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• May 23 WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
• May 23 WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
• May 24 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
• May 25 George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR
• May 27 Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt, used by Baltimore Oriole Clint Courtney
• May 27 Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey

• Jun 1 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, West Vrirginia (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Jun 2 Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
• Jun 5 "The George Gobel Show" last airs on CBS-TV

• Jun 6 South African police kill 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
• Jun 8 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

• Jun 9 ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract

• Jun 9 Typhoon Mary in China kills at least 1,600
• Jun 11 House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
• Jun 12 KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
• Jun 13 "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
• Jun 13 Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia

• Jun 15 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Adolf Eichmann

• Jun 18 San Francisco Giants hire Tom Sheehan to replace Bill Rigney; baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) goes 46-50-2 for remainder of season
• Jun 19 1st Copa Libertadores Final, Asunción: Luis Cubilla scores 83' equaliser for Peñarol of Uruguay for 1-1 draw against Olimpia (Paraguay); win 2-1 on aggregate after taking 1st-leg 1-0 in Montevideo

• Jun 20 Federation of Mali and Senegal become independent of France

• Jun 21 German sprinter Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
• Jun 23 "The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom" last airs on ABC-TV

• Jun 23 Japan signs security treaty with the US
• Jun 24 Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's

• Jun 25 Earthquake in NE Belgium
• Jun 25 Madagascar gains independence from France
• Jun 25 South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg
• Jun 26 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
• Jun 26 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
• Jun 26 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration
• Jun 26 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Beverly CC: Joyce Ziske wins on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with Barbara Romack
• Jun 26 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
• Jun 27 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
• Jun 27 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Jun 27 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
• Jun 28 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
• Jun 29 KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
• Jun 30 US stops sugar import from Cuba
• Jun 30 Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium

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

• 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 10 Belgium sends troops to Congo

• 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 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA

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

• 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 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

• Jul 22 Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories
• Jul 25 Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
• Jul 26 Italian government of Fanfani forms

• Jul 28 US Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
• Jul 30 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)

• Jul 31 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast

• Aug 1 Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France
• Aug 1 Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• Aug 2 Baseball's new Continental League formally disbands without ever having played a game after established MLB promise of expansion including New York City achieved the owners' desired effect; on August 2, 1960, the Continental League formally disbanded.
• Aug 3 For the only time in MLB history teams exchange managers as Detroit trades Jimmy Dykes (44-52) for Cleveland's Joe Gordon (49-46)
• Aug 3 Lee Petty and his sons, Richard & Maurice race against each other for the first and only time at Dixie Speedway in Birmingham, Alabama; Richard 2nd, Lee 3rd
• Aug 3 Niger gains independence from France
• Aug 3 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in exhibition game at CNE Stadium in Toronto
• Aug 4 Rocket propelled USAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
• Aug 5 Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France

• Aug 6 The UN Security Council lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo

• Aug 7 Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France
• Aug 7 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches
• Aug 8 "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
• Aug 8 Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa are dropped
• Aug 8 South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
• Aug 9 Race riot in Jacksonville, Florida
• Aug 10 Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space
• Aug 10 Los Angeles premiere of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
• Aug 10 Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New Guinea
• Aug 11 Chad declares Independence from France
• Aug 12 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
• Aug 12 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched by NASA

• Aug 12 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 41,600 m
• Aug 13 Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France
• Aug 13 USSR withdraws advisors from China
• Aug 14 Australian driver Jack Brabham clinches his second consecutive F1 World Drivers Championship by winning the Portuguese Grand Prix at Boavista
• Aug 14 UN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
• Aug 15 CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
• Aug 15 Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
• Aug 15 Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
• Aug 15 UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
• Aug 16 Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
• Aug 16 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
• Aug 16 Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms

• Aug 17 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
• Aug 17 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands
• Aug 18 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Richardson, Texas
• Aug 18 Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
• Aug 18 The Beatles give their 1st public performance at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany
• Aug 19 American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident); sentence to 3 years in prison plus 7 in a labor camp, he served 17 months before being exchanged for a captured Soviet KGB spy
• Aug 19 Soviet Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 2 rats, 40 mice, 1 rabbit and fruit flies into space, 1st animals to return alive from orbit
• Aug 19 The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts
• Aug 20 Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
• Aug 20 USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space

• Aug 23 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
• Aug 24 -127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
• Aug 24 60 people die when a bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
• Aug 25 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys
• Aug 25 Demonstrations against Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba
• Aug 25 XVII Summer Olympic Games open in Rome, Italy
• Aug 27 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
• Aug 27 Australian swimmer John Devitt controversially wins the 100m freestyle gold medal at the Rome Olympics; recorded same time 55.2 as silver medallist American Lance Larson
• Aug 27 British swimmer Anita Lonsbrough sets 200m breaststroke world record 2:49.5 to beat German pair Wiltrud Urselmann & Barbara Göbel for the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
• Aug 28 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as umpire called time

• Aug 29 Italy wins cycling team pursuit and Sante Gaiardoni takes the sprint gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Italy wins all 4 track events and road team time trial to thoroughly dominate sport
• Aug 29 Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack

• Aug 30 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
• Aug 30 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
• Aug 30 US women's 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:41.1 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler & Chris von Saltza
• Aug 31 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
• Aug 31 US sweeps the medals in the shot put at the Rome Olympics; Bill Nieder wins gold with 19.68m, ahead of countrymen Parry O'Brien and Dallas Long
• Sep 1 German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928
• Sep 1 US 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:05.4 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Frank McKinney, Paul Hait, Lance Larson & Jeff Farrell

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