1960 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1960?
- January 1, 1960 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
- January 23, 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
- January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 29, 1960 – Family Circus makes its debut.
- March 17, 1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
- April 27, 1960 – Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- May 7, 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
- July 1, 1960 – Independence of Somalia.
- July 11, 1960 – Independence of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger.
- August 1, 1960 – Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
- August 3, 1960 – Niger gains independence from France.
- August 19, 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
- September 2, 1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
- September 5, 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
- September 14, 1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
- September 22, 1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- October 12, 1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
- December 15, 1960 – Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
- December 16, 1960 – 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York’s Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.
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