1960 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1960?
- January 21, 1960 – Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica’s history and the first for Avianca.
- 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 22, 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
- April 4, 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- May 1, 1960 – Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
- May 3, 1960 – The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- May 11, 1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
- June 20, 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
- July 1, 1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state.
- July 14, 1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
- August 5, 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
- August 11, 1960 – Chad declares independence.
- 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 poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
- 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.
- October 30, 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
- December 9, 1960 – The first episode of the world’s longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- December 11, 1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French president Charles de Gaulle.
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