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| Born : | 11/19/1960 | "Lovely" Elizabeth, Frankfort Ky, WWF's 1st lady of wrestling |
| Born : | 03/13/1960 | Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow) |
| Born : | 01/19/1960 | Alfrederick Joyner, E St Louis Ill, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1984) |
| Born : | 09/20/1960 | Alice Regina Brown, Jackson Ms, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1984, 88) |
| Born : | 05/28/1960 | Allan Green, cricketeer |
| Born : | 11/25/1960 | Amy Grant, gospel singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby) |
| Born : | 02/27/1960 | Andres Gomez, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990) |
| Born : | 01/25/1960 | Andy Cox, rock guitarist (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy) |
| Born : | 02/18/1960 | Andy Moog, NHL goalie (Oilers, Bruins, Olympics-Canada-1988) |
| Born : | 10/17/1960 | Ang‚la Kramers, singer (Dolly dots) |
| Born : | 03/31/1960 | Anne Howard, San Diego Calif, actress (Nicole Love-Another World) |
| Born : | 05/16/1960 | Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita) |
| Born : | 09/14/1960 | Anthony Addabbo, actor (Jason-Generations) |
| Born : | 08/02/1960 | Apollonia, [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain) |
| Born : | 05/07/1960 | Arnon Ohad, co-pilot El Al plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam |
| Born : | 03/21/1960 | Ayrton Senna, formula-1 racer (1988 champ) |
| Born : | 02/03/1960 | B.J. Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World) |
| Born : | 06/26/1960 | Barbara Edwards, Albuqueque NM, playmate of year (Sept, 1983) |
| Born : | 05/06/1960 | Bart de Farmer, guitarist (Ivy Green) |
| Born : | 03/26/1960 | Billy Warlock, Hawthorne Calif, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch) |
| Born : | 10/16/1960 | Bob Mould, US singer/guitarist/songwriter (Hsker D) |
| Born : | 02/27/1960 | Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC) |
| Born : | 05/10/1960 | Bono Vox, [Paul Hauson], Dublin Ireland, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree) |
| Born : | 08/26/1960 | Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist (Bring on the Night, Tonight Show) |
| Born : | 04/10/1960 | Brian Setzer, rock guitarist (Lobos-La Bamba, Stray Cats-Sexy & 17) |
| Born : | 12/01/1960 | Carol Alt, [Altman], Queens NY (Mrs Ron Greshner), model (Sports Ill) |
| Born : | 10/24/1960 | Carolien de Windt, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai) |
| Born : | 12/20/1960 | Carolyn Seaward, Devonshire England, Miss UK (1979) |
| Born : | 12/14/1960 | Catherine G Coleman, Charleston SC, USAF Capt/astronaut |
| Born : | 11/29/1960 | Cathy Moriarty, actress (Neighbors, Raging Bull) |
| Born : | 12/28/1960 | Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce) |
| Born : | 01/29/1960 | Cho-Liang Lin, Taiwan, violinist (Queen Sophia 1st prize) |
| Born : | 05/31/1960 | Chris Elliot, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show) |
| Born : | 08/01/1960 | Chuck D, [Chuck Ridenhour], US rapper (Public Enemy) |
| Born : | 10/03/1960 | Cinzia Fiordeponti, Abruzzo Italy, Miss Italy (1979) |
| Born : | 03/18/1960 | Claudia Udy, Albuquerque NM, actress (Out of Control, Nightforce) |
| Born : | 06/22/1960 | Colleen Devine, San Gabriel Cal, actress (Irreconcilable Differences) |
| Born : | 03/21/1960 | Dale Baze, jockey |
| Born : | 08/24/1960 | David Guillory, jockey |
| Born : | 09/07/1960 | David Steele, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-Drive Me Crazy) |
| Born : | 02/08/1960 | Dino Ciccarelli, Ontario, NHL right wing (Minn North Stars, Wash Caps) |
| Born : | 10/02/1960 | Django Bates, jazz musician |
| Born : | 01/12/1960 | Dominique Wilkins, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks) |
| Born : | 03/15/1960 | Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985) |
| Born : | 02/28/1960 | Dorothy Stratten, Vancouver BC, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina) |
| Born : | 11/22/1960 | Eg White, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret) |
| Born : | 08/20/1960 | Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons) |
| Born : | 11/01/1960 | Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) |
| Born : | 11/18/1960 | Elizabeth Perkins, Queens NY, actress (About Last Night, Big) |
| Born : | 10/18/1960 | Emily Arth, Evanston Ill, playmate (Jun, 1988) |
| Born : | 08/28/1960 | Emma Samms, [Samuels], London, actress (Colby's, General Hospital) |
| Born : | 09/02/1960 | Eric Dickerson, Texas, NFL halfback (LA Rams, Indianapolis Colts) |
| Born : | 07/01/1960 | Evelyn "Champagne" King, Bronx NY, singer (Shame, I'm In Love) |
| Born : | 01/02/1960 | Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km |
| Born : | 11/01/1960 | Fernando Valenzuela, pitcher (LA Dodgers) |
| Born : | 05/17/1960 | Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light) |
| Born : | 04/19/1960 | Frank Viola, Hempstead NY, pitcher (Twins, Mets) (Cy Young-1988) |
| Born : | 06/06/1960 | Gary Graham, actor (Money on the Side) |
| Born : | 11/30/1960 | Gary Lineker, English soccer player |
| Born : | 03/14/1960 | George Horvath, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-1980) |
| Born : | 04/29/1960 | Gerard Joling, singer (Love is in Your Eyes) |
| Born : | 07/16/1960 | Gisela Beyer, German DR, discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980) |
| Born : | 10/02/1960 | Glenn Anderson, Vancouver, NHL (Edmonton Oilers) |
| Born : | 02/23/1960 | Gloria von Thurm und Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess |
| Born : | 01/29/1960 | Gregory Efthimos Louganis, San Diego Ca, diver (Olympic-gold-1984, 88) |
| Born : | 02/18/1960 | Greta Scacchi, Milan Italy, actress (Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief) |
| Born : | 03/21/1960 | Guy Chadwick, English singer/songwriter (House of Love) |
| Born : | 03/25/1960 | Haywood Nelson, NYC, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening) |
| Born : | 08/23/1960 | Helen Rees, director (Design Museum) |
| Born : | 02/09/1960 | Holly Johnson, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax) |
| Born : | 07/07/1960 | Isabelle Boeri-B‚gard, France, foils (Olympic-gold-1980) |
| Born : | 03/07/1960 | Ivan Lendl, Czechoslovakia, tennis pro (US Open 1985-87) |
| Born : | 08/07/1960 | Jacquie O'Sullivan, rocker (Bananarama-Venus) |
| Born : | 02/07/1960 | James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin) |
| Born : | 07/17/1960 | Jan Wouters, soccer star (Ajax, Bayern Munich) |
| Born : | 12/12/1960 | Jap van Sweden, violinist/concert master |
| Born : | 12/22/1960 | Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter (Gray, SAMO) |
| Born : | 01/26/1960 | Jeanette Bolden, LA Calif, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1984) |
| Born : | 10/06/1960 | Jeffrey Trachta, Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful) |
| Born : | 10/04/1960 | Jennifer Anglin, Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital) |
| Born : | 03/27/1960 | Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter |
| Born : | 10/19/1960 | Jennifer Holiday, singer/actress (Dream Girls) |
| Born : | 02/14/1960 | Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills) |
| Born : | 06/27/1960 | Jim Nussle, (Rep-R-Iowa) |
| Born : | 05/09/1960 | Jim Reilly, rocker (Red Rockers) |
| Born : | 07/27/1960 | Jo Durie, England, tennis player |
| Born : | 09/22/1960 | Joan Jett, Phila, singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll) |
| Born : | 10/13/1960 | Joey Belladonna, heavy metal vocalist (Anthrax-Protest & Survive) |
| Born : | 01/28/1960 | John Caliri, Providence RI, actor (Vinnie-Square Pegs, Double Trouble) |
| Born : | 05/20/1960 | John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair) |
| Born : | 01/17/1960 | John Crawford, Palo Alto Ca, bass (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away) |
| Born : | 06/28/1960 | John Elway, NFL QB (Denver Broncos) |
| Born : | 11/25/1960 | John F Kennedy Jr, NYC lawyer, son of JFK |
| Born : | 09/25/1960 | John Hills, horse trainer |
| Born : | 06/20/1960 | John Taylor, rocker (Duran Duran-Girls on Film) |
| Born : | 01/08/1960 | Jolanda Egger, Luzean Switz, playmate (June, 1983) |
| Born : | 04/04/1960 | Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster/test bowler |
| Born : | 11/17/1960 | Jonathan Ross, British talk show host |
| Born : | 04/29/1960 | Joseph Guzaldo, Chicago Ill, actor (Stir Crazy) |
| Born : | 04/10/1960 | Julie Fulton, Evanston Ill, actress (Lime Steel) |
| Born : | 04/21/1960 | Julius Korir, Kenya, 3K steeplechaser (Olympic-gold-1984) |
| Born : | 07/17/1960 | Karen Price, Pasadena Calif, playmate (January, 1981) |
| Born : | 11/25/1960 | Kasey Smith, Queens NY, heavy metal artist (Danger Danger-Screw It) |
| Born : | 07/20/1960 | Katie Rabbet, London England, Prince Andrew's former girlfriend |
| Born : | 03/24/1960 | Kelly LeBrock, actress (Woman in Red) |
| Born : | 02/13/1960 | Kelly McCormick, Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984) |
| Born : | 11/27/1960 | Ken O'Brien, QB (NY Jets) |
| Born : | 12/10/1960 | Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor (High Season, Dead Again) |
| Born : | 07/15/1960 | Kim Alexis, Lockport NY, model (Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover) |
| Born : | 11/18/1960 | Kim Wilde, [Smith], England, rock vocalist (You Keep Me Hanging On) |
| Born : | 07/26/1960 | LaTaunya Pollard, East Chic Ind, (Olympics-1980, 84) |
| Born : | 07/21/1960 | Lance Guest, Saratoga Calif, actor (Lance-Lou Grant) |
| Born : | 11/06/1960 | Lance Kerwin, Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Lonliest Runner) |
| Born : | 05/06/1960 | Larry Steinbachek, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy) |
| Born : | 03/17/1960 | Lee Ann Michelle, Surrey England, playmate (Feb, 1979) |
| Born : | 08/11/1960 | Leora "Sam" Jones, Mt Olive NC, US team handball player (Olympic-92) |
| Born : | 08/28/1960 | Leroy Chiao, Milwaukee Wisc, astronaut |
| Born : | 09/29/1960 | Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Capitol) |
| Born : | 08/02/1960 | Linda Fratianne, US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980) |
| Born : | 03/10/1960 | Linda Jezek, Calif, backstroke swimmer (Pan Am Gold-1979) |
| Born : | 04/02/1960 | Linford Christie, St Andrews Jamaica, 4x100m runner (Oly-silver-1988) |
| Born : | 11/11/1960 | Lisa Welch Semler, Aberdeen Md, playmate (Sep, 1980) |
| Born : | 04/22/1960 | Lloyd Honeyghan, welterweight boxing champ |
| Born : | 06/06/1960 | Lola Forner, Alicante SW Spain, Miss Spain (1979) |
| Born : | 08/12/1960 | Lonny Chin, Liverpool England, playmate (Jan, 1983) |
| Born : | 11/01/1960 | Lyle Lovett, country singer (Desert Rose Band, Give Back My Heart) |
| Born : | 11/03/1960 | Marcel "Baaf" Stavenuiter, drummer (Bob Color) |
| Born : | 03/26/1960 | Marcus Allen, NFL footballer (LA Raiders) |
| Born : | 11/02/1960 | Mardi Jacquet, Chƒteauroux Calif, playmate (October, 1980) |
| Born : | 10/28/1960 | Mark Derwin, Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light) |
| Born : | 02/20/1960 | Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest) |
| Born : | 08/01/1960 | Marta Ch varri Figueroa, Madrid Spain, The Marquesa de Cubas |
| Born : | 04/15/1960 | Marvin Clyde Goodwin, New Orleans La, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) |
| Born : | 12/27/1960 | Maryam d'Abo, British actress (James Bond) |
| Born : | 08/15/1960 | Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985) |
| Born : | 02/14/1960 | Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA Calif, actress (Big Chill, Impulse) |
| Born : | 02/06/1960 | Megan Gallagher, actress (Slap Maxwell) |
| Born : | 05/29/1960 | Mel Gaynor, drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front) |
| Born : | 10/29/1960 | Michael Carter, Dallas Tx, shot putter (Olympic-silver-1984) |
| Born : | 06/20/1960 | Michael Corbett, Collingwood NJ, actor (David-Young & Restless) |
| Born : | 02/13/1960 | Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me) |
| Born : | 03/26/1960 | Michael Evans, Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88) |
| Born : | 01/22/1960 | Michael Hutchence, rocker (Inxs-I Need You Tonight) |
| Born : | 01/04/1960 | Michael Stipe, rocker (R E M -Stand) |
| Born : | 09/06/1960 | Michael Winslow, actor/comedian (Police Academy) |
| Born : | 06/08/1960 | Mike Hucknail, rocker (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye) |
| Born : | 12/19/1960 | Mike Lookinland, Mt Pleasant Utah, actor (Bobby-Brady Bunch) |
| Born : | 08/05/1960 | Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock) |
| Born : | 12/03/1960 | Mike Ramsey, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1980) |
| Born : | 02/15/1960 | Mikey Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me) |
| Born : | 09/10/1960 | Miranda Wilson, Nebraska, actress (Sandra-Santa Barbara) |
| Born : | 01/23/1960 | Misha Mck, East Orange NJ, actress (Gerri-Me & Mrs C) |
| Born : | 08/12/1960 | Morty Black, heavy metal rocker (TNT-7 Seas) |
| Born : | 01/24/1960 | Nastassja Kinski, Berlin Germany, actress (Tess, Cat People) |
| Born : | 06/24/1960 | Nate Carr, Erie Pa, freestyle wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1988) |
| Born : | 09/11/1960 | Neal X, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111) |
| Born : | 09/27/1960 | Nick della Casa, British/Brazillian/Argentine cameraman (Emmy Award) |
| Born : | 05/31/1960 | Norm Johnson, NFL placekicker (Seattle Seahawk) |
| Born : | 08/26/1960 | Ola Ray, St Louis Mo, playmate (Jun, 1980)/actress (Thriller) |
| Born : | 02/04/1960 | Pamelyn Ferdin, actress (Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders) |
| Born : | 03/18/1960 | Patricia Farinelli, LA Calif, playmate (December, 1981) |
| Born : | 02/27/1960 | Paul Humphreys, rock synthersizers (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age) |
| Born : | 04/24/1960 | Paula Yates, London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes) |
| Born : | 09/04/1960 | Peter Virgile, soap actor |
| Born : | 04/15/1960 | Philip, Belgian prince/husband of princess Paola |
| Born : | 02/19/1960 | Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain |
| Born : | 07/07/1960 | Ralph Sampson, NBA center (Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets) |
| Born : | 05/27/1960 | Ray Armsetad, Kirksville Mo, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1984) |
| Born : | 12/28/1960 | Ray Borque, NHL defenseman (Boston Bruin-3 Norris Trophys) |
| Born : | 11/05/1960 | Ren‚ Froger, singer (Everything can a man happily make) |
| Born : | 10/31/1960 | Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran |
| Born : | 03/18/1960 | Richard Biggs, Columbus Ohio, actor (Marcus-Days of Our Lives) |
| Born : | 10/06/1960 | Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance) |
| Born : | 12/02/1960 | Rick Savage, bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages) |
| Born : | 11/10/1960 | Rick de Leeuw, singer (Tr”ckener Kecks) |
| Born : | 09/05/1960 | Rob Stull, Damascus Md, US pentathlete (Olympic-92) |
| Born : | 07/10/1960 | Rob de Weerd, guitarist (Tr”ckener Kecks) |
| Born : | 08/04/1960 | Robbin Crosby, heavy metal rocker (Ratt-Round & Round) |
| Born : | 07/10/1960 | Roger Craig, NFL reciever (SF 49ers) |
| Born : | 12/21/1960 | Roger McDowall, pitcher (NY Mets) |
| Born : | 04/26/1960 | Roger Taylor, rock drummer (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf) |
| Born : | 08/19/1960 | Ron Darling, Hawaii, baseball pitcher (NY Mets) |
| Born : | 03/04/1960 | Russell Todd, Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World) |
| Born : | 01/16/1960 | Sad‚, [Helen Ady] Nigeria, rocker (Taboo; Grammy 1986-Best new singer) |
| Born : | 11/02/1960 | Sa‹d Aquita, Morocco, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1984) |
| Born : | 10/25/1960 | Scott Anthony Haneline, Indianapolis, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) |
| Born : | 09/22/1960 | Scott Baio, Bkln, (Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, Zapped) |
| Born : | 07/17/1960 | Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat) |
| Born : | 10/06/1960 | Scott Stevens, jockey |
| Born : | 09/15/1960 | Scott Thompson Baker, Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children) |
| Born : | 08/17/1960 | Sean Penn, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) |
| Born : | 06/29/1960 | Sergey Kopylov, USSR, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1980) |
| Born : | 06/--/1960 | Sibylle Rauch, Munich Germany, actress (Lemon Popsicle, Born for Love) |
| Born : | 04/07/1960 | Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes) |
| Born : | 05/30/1960 | Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song) |
| Born : | 02/07/1960 | Steve Bronski, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy) |
| Born : | 04/23/1960 | Steve Clark, rock guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria) |
| Born : | 03/25/1960 | Steve Norman, rocker (Spandau Ballet-True) |
| Born : | 01/29/1960 | Steve Sax, 2nd baseman (LA Dodgers, NY Yankees, Chic White Sox) |
| Born : | 06/06/1960 | Steve Val, rock guitarist (Passion & Warfare) |
| Born : | 05/01/1960 | Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby) |
| Born : | 02/27/1960 | Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders) |
| Born : | 09/30/1960 | Susan Keith, actress (Shana Vochek-Loving) |
| Born : | 09/17/1960 | Terry Nihen, Concord Mass, playmate (December, 1983) |
| Born : | 03/23/1960 | Terry Sweeney, St Albans NY, writer/comedian (SNL) |
| Born : | 01/07/1960 | Tierre Turner, Detroit Mich, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid) |
| Born : | 08/03/1960 | Tim Mayotte, Springfield Mass, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988) |
| Born : | 08/16/1960 | Timothy Hutton, actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People) |
| Born : | 10/25/1960 | Tom Eplin, actor (Jake-Another World) |
| Born : | 08/15/1960 | Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man) |
| Born : | 06/14/1960 | Tonie Campbell, LA Calif, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988) |
| Born : | 06/02/1960 | Tony Hadley, rocker (Spandau Ballet-True) |
| Born : | 01/30/1960 | Tony O'Dell, Pasadena Calif, actor (Alan Pinkard-Head of the Class) |
| Born : | 06/22/1960 | Tracy Pollan, actress (Family Ties)/aka Mrs Michael J Fox |
| Born : | 08/20/1960 | Troy Young, horse trainer |
| Born : | 12/22/1960 | Tyrell Biggs, Phila, super HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1984) |
| Born : | 04/23/1960 | Valerie Bertinelli, Del, (1 Day at a Time, Sydney); Ms Eddie Van Halen |
| Born : | 07/06/1960 | Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-gold-84) |
| Born : | 07/08/1960 | Valerie Pettiford, NYC, actress (Sheila Price-One Life to Live) |
| Born : | 04/28/1960 | Wally Langdon, bassist (Bob Color) |
| Born : | 09/29/1960 | Wendy White, Atlanta Ga, tennis player |
| Born : | 07/15/1960 | Willie Aames, Newport Beach Ca, actor (8 is Enough, Paradise, Zapped) |
| Born : | 09/05/1960 | Willie Gault, bob sledder/NFL receiver (Chicago Bears, LA Raiders) |
| Born : | 10/19/1960 | Woody, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee) |
| Born : | 05/18/1960 | Yannick Noah, France, tennis player (French 1983) |
| Born : | 12/23/1960 | Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela |
| Died : | 10/14/1960 | Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies |
| Died : | 10/10/1960 | Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime, dies |
| Died : | 02/27/1960 | Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 |
| Died : | 01/04/1960 | Albert Camus, Fr author (L'etanger), dies in an auto accident at 46 |
| Died : | 07/16/1960 | Albrecht von Kesselring, German field marshal (Italy), dies |
| Died : | 02/26/1960 | Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at 83 |
| Died : | 08/29/1960 | Alexander Gauge, actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 46 |
| Died : | 06/14/1960 | Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romanian Foreign Minister (1945-52), dies at 67 |
| Died : | 07/13/1960 | Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], writer (Life & Death), dies |
| Died : | 04/03/1960 | Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 77 |
| Died : | 04/10/1960 | Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies |
| Died : | 05/30/1960 | Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70 |
| Died : | 05/02/1960 | Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39 |
| Died : | 01/02/1960 | Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, actor/director (Haagsche Comedy), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 11/16/1960 | Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind), dies at 59 |
| Died : | 08/08/1960 | Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61 |
| Died : | 02/13/1960 | Delmar G Roos, designer of jeep, dies at 79 |
| Died : | 11/02/1960 | Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek/US conductor, dies at 64 |
| Died : | 11/27/1960 | Dirk J de Geer, Dutch premier (1926-29, 39-40), dies at 89 |
| Died : | 02/09/1960 | Earnest von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at 82 |
| Died : | 04/17/1960 | Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies in an auto accident |
| Died : | 01/06/1960 | Edith Barstow, choreographer (Frankie Laine Time), dies at 52 |
| Died : | 11/01/1960 | Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding light), dies |
| Died : | 08/10/1960 | Emil Strauss, German writer (Vaterland), dies |
| Died : | 09/25/1960 | Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86 |
| Died : | 01/02/1960 | Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (world record time 45,798 km), dies |
| Died : | 03/23/1960 | Franklin P Adams, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 05/23/1960 | Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies |
| Died : | 12/31/1960 | Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees of Illness), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 10/19/1960 | Gnther AR Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies |
| Died : | 10/31/1960 | H L Davis, US writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 07/24/1960 | Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), dies |
| Died : | 09/30/1960 | Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer, dies |
| Died : | 08/29/1960 | Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan is assassinated |
| Died : | 04/25/1960 | Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62 |
| Died : | 10/09/1960 | Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game |
| Died : | 02/07/1960 | Igor V Koertsjatov, Russian nuclear physics, dies at 57 |
| Died : | 10/12/1960 | Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialistic Party, murdered |
| Died : | 09/06/1960 | Jimmy Savo, comedian (Through the Crystal Ball), dies at 65 |
| Died : | 09/08/1960 | Johan J "Jussi" Bj”rling, Swedish epic tenor, dies at 49 |
| Died : | 06/26/1960 | John Brenden Kelly, rower (Olympic-gold-1920, 24), dies at 70 |
| Died : | 05/11/1960 | John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86 |
| Died : | 07/16/1960 | John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66 |
| Died : | 07/15/1960 | Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies |
| Died : | 09/13/1960 | Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies |
| Died : | 03/04/1960 | Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48 |
| Died : | 06/01/1960 | Lester Patrick, NHL coach/star, dies at 76 |
| Died : | 01/29/1960 | Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront), dies at 54 |
| Died : | 06/04/1960 | Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 11/05/1960 | Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies |
| Died : | 01/01/1960 | Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), dies |
| Died : | 01/01/1960 | Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), dies at 58 of an OD |
| Died : | 09/24/1960 | Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies |
| Died : | 08/23/1960 | Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65 |
| Died : | 03/24/1960 | Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies |
| Died : | 01/05/1960 | Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies |
| Died : | 04/01/1960 | Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist (Telegraph, Free People), dies |
| Died : | 06/09/1960 | Ren‚ Maran, Martiniques writer (Batouala, Prix Goncourt), dies |
| Died : | 11/28/1960 | Richard N Wright, US author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France |
| Died : | 07/29/1960 | Richard Simon, co-founder (Simon & Shuster), dies |
| Died : | 11/24/1960 | Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist, dies at 82 |
| Died : | 09/27/1960 | Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78 |
| Died : | 04/23/1960 | Tojohiko Kagawa, Japanese christian-social reformer/writer, dies |
| Died : | 06/25/1960 | Walter Baade, astronomer, dies |
| Died : | 11/05/1960 | Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 55 |
| Died : | 09/07/1960 | Wilhelm Pieck, president of German DR (1949-60), dies at 84 |
| Died : | 05/31/1960 | Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78 |
| Interest: | 04/23/1960 | [Luth] Commemoration of Toyohiko Kagawa, renewer of society |
| Special : | 12/03/1960 | "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway |
| Special : | 10/03/1960 | "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premiers on radio with Dick Van Dyke |
| Special : | 10/07/1960 | "Route 66" premieres |
| Special : | 06/28/1960 | 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record) |
| Special : | 08/24/1960 | 127øF (-88øC), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
| Special : | 03/14/1960 | 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif |
| Special : | 10/10/1960 | 16 Calif Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo |
| Special : | 09/11/1960 | 17th Olympic games close in Rome |
| Special : | 08/25/1960 | 17th summer olympics opens in Rome |
| Special : | 07/30/1960 | 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7) |
| Special : | 09/25/1960 | 1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US) |
| Special : | 10/21/1960 | 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched |
| Special : | 02/29/1960 | 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago |
| Special : | 07/18/1960 | 1st UN troops reach Congo |
| Special : | 04/27/1960 | 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee) |
| Special : | 05/17/1960 | 1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA |
| Special : | 06/08/1960 | 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House" |
| Special : | 10/25/1960 | 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC |
| Special : | 10/20/1960 | 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI |
| Special : | 05/04/1960 | 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland |
| Special : | 03/25/1960 | 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) |
| Special : | 05/13/1960 | 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed |
| Special : | 09/24/1960 | 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise) |
| Special : | 09/26/1960 | 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago) |
| Special : | 01/28/1960 | 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC |
| Special : | 08/18/1960 | 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| Special : | 04/25/1960 | 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton) |
| Special : | 07/20/1960 | 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington) |
| Special : | 04/14/1960 | 1st underwater launching of polaris rocket |
| Special : | 05/27/1960 | 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney) |
| Special : | 04/11/1960 | 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1) |
| Special : | 11/14/1960 | 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech) |
| Special : | 07/16/1960 | 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer |
| Special : | 04/01/1960 | 2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara) |
| Special : | 10/13/1960 | 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY |
| Special : | 02/01/1960 | 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth |
| Special : | 09/09/1960 | 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) |
| Special : | 08/24/1960 | 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil |
| Special : | 02/18/1960 | 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California |
| Special : | 03/03/1960 | 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") |
| Special : | 06/09/1960 | ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract |
| Special : | 02/09/1960 | AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact |
| Special : | 08/25/1960 | AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies |
| Special : | 03/22/1960 | AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser |
| Special : | 10/26/1960 | AL announces Minneapolis & LA to get teams in 1961 |
| Special : | 07/13/1960 | AL beats NL 6-0 in 29th All Star Game (NY Yankees host) |
| Special : | 12/06/1960 | AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels |
| Special : | 10/26/1960 | AL's Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins |
| Special : | 08/31/1960 | Agricultural Hall of Fame established |
| Special : | 01/24/1960 | Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle |
| Special : | 07/04/1960 | America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled |
| Special : | 04/17/1960 | American Samoa sets up a constitutional government |
| Special : | 09/16/1960 | Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 |
| Special : | 06/15/1960 | Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races |
| Special : | 06/15/1960 | Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichman |
| Special : | 06/08/1960 | Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann |
| Special : | 06/18/1960 | Arnold Palmer wins US Open golf tournament |
| Special : | 04/10/1960 | Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Masters golf tournament |
| Special : | 03/20/1960 | Asteroid #2103 discovered |
| Special : | 12/20/1960 | Auschwitz-commandant Richard B„r arrested in German FR |
| Special : | 07/15/1960 | Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle |
| Special : | 01/01/1960 | Bank of France issues a franc, worth 20› |
| Special : | 05/20/1960 | Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog |
| Special : | 04/19/1960 | Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs |
| Special : | 07/18/1960 | Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises |
| Special : | 01/23/1960 | Bathyscope "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific |
| Special : | 05/19/1960 | Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed |
| Special : | 10/14/1960 | Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen |
| Special : | 07/10/1960 | Belgium sends troops to Congo |
| Special : | 11/14/1960 | Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on it's Congo-policy |
| Special : | 11/01/1960 | Benelux treaty goes into effect |
| Special : | 08/01/1960 | Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France |
| Special : | 04/12/1960 | Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass" |
| Special : | 05/16/1960 | Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US |
| Special : | 04/12/1960 | Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard" |
| Special : | 12/11/1960 | Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die |
| Special : | 02/01/1960 | Black college students sit-in at segregated lunch counter in NC |
| Special : | 03/21/1960 | Bloodbath in Sharpeville, South-Africa |
| Special : | 10/08/1960 | Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer |
| Special : | 01/10/1960 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz |
| Special : | 02/08/1960 | Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51) |
| Special : | 04/21/1960 | Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil |
| Special : | 08/16/1960 | Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus |
| Special : | 10/05/1960 | British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament |
| Special : | 06/26/1960 | British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain |
| Special : | 07/01/1960 | British Somaliland becomes Somalia |
| Special : | 06/27/1960 | British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia |
| Special : | 03/07/1960 | Builders strike for CLA |
| Special : | 01/09/1960 | Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins |
| Special : | 08/05/1960 | Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France |
| Special : | 11/27/1960 | CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel" |
| Special : | 11/28/1960 | CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes |
| Special : | 01/30/1960 | CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) |
| Special : | 01/01/1960 | Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France |
| Special : | 10/18/1960 | Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) |
| Special : | 10/29/1960 | Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight |
| Special : | 09/05/1960 | Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal |
| Special : | 10/22/1960 | Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer |
| Special : | 08/13/1960 | Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France |
| Special : | 08/11/1960 | Chad declares Independence from France |
| Special : | 01/11/1960 | Chad declares independence from France |
| Special : | 10/29/1960 | Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16 |
| Special : | 08/15/1960 | Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo) |
| Special : | 05/15/1960 | Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 |
| Special : | 02/12/1960 | Chinese army honarary 12 Indies soldiers |
| Special : | 06/27/1960 | Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass |
| Special : | 08/01/1960 | Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" |
| Special : | 01/22/1960 | Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die |
| Special : | 04/19/1960 | Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating |
| Special : | 08/15/1960 | Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France |
| Special : | 06/30/1960 | Congo becomes independent of Belgium under premier Patrice Lumumba |
| Special : | 07/12/1960 | Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence |
| Special : | 02/08/1960 | Congress begins looking into payola |
| Special : | 11/18/1960 | Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration |
| Special : | 07/21/1960 | Country of Katanga forms in Africa |
| Special : | 11/12/1960 | Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails |
| Special : | 09/14/1960 | Coup under Col Joseph-Desir‚ Mobutu in the Congo |
| Special : | 10/04/1960 | Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit |
| Special : | 10/09/1960 | Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2") |
| Special : | 04/02/1960 | Cuba buys oil from USSR |
| Special : | 09/17/1960 | Cuba nationalizes US banks |
| Special : | 07/22/1960 | Cuba nationalizes US owned sugar factories |
| Special : | 10/25/1960 | Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses |
| Special : | 10/31/1960 | Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die |
| Special : | 10/10/1960 | Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die |
| Special : | 07/11/1960 | Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution |
| Special : | 03/25/1960 | DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC) |
| Special : | 08/01/1960 | Dahomey gains independence |
| Special : | 01/26/1960 | Danny Heater scores 135 pts in basketball game (Boys' HS) |
| Special : | 12/23/1960 | De Quay govt falls |
| Special : | 07/13/1960 | Democratic Natl convention nominates Sen John F Kennedy for president |
| Special : | 02/23/1960 | Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field |
| Special : | 08/25/1960 | Demonstrations against premier Lumumba |
| Special : | 08/05/1960 | Detroit trades mgr Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's mgr Joe Gordon |
| Special : | 08/10/1960 | Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space |
| Special : | 07/06/1960 | Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC |
| Special : | 11/27/1960 | Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast |
| Special : | 09/13/1960 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law |
| Special : | 12/24/1960 | Dutch bishops question papacy values |
| Special : | 01/04/1960 | EVA, European Vr˜handels Assn forms in Stockholm |
| Special : | 01/30/1960 | EVC'58 (Eenheidsvakcentrale) disbands |
| Special : | 02/29/1960 | Earthquake devastates Agadir Morocco, about 12,000 die |
| Special : | 02/29/1960 | Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec |
| Special : | 10/05/1960 | Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die) |
| Special : | 08/12/1960 | Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched |
| Special : | 07/12/1960 | Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched |
| Special : | 05/18/1960 | Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs) |
| Special : | 01/19/1960 | Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact |
| Special : | 11/15/1960 | Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks |
| Special : | 07/31/1960 | Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state |
| Special : | 05/12/1960 | Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special |
| Special : | 05/29/1960 | Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1 |
| Special : | 03/23/1960 | Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit |
| Special : | 02/01/1960 | Extremely-rightward rebellion in Algeria |
| Special : | 06/20/1960 | Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France |
| Special : | 07/01/1960 | Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba |
| Special : | 12/19/1960 | Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die) |
| Special : | 11/13/1960 | Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain) |
| Special : | 09/30/1960 | Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show) |
| Special : | 04/13/1960 | France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara |
| Special : | 02/13/1960 | France explodes its 1st atomic bomb, in Algerian desert |
| Special : | 10/19/1960 | France grants Mauritania independence |
| Special : | 09/15/1960 | France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments |
| Special : | 08/17/1960 | Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow |
| Special : | 08/19/1960 | Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident) |
| Special : | 11/22/1960 | French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons |
| Special : | 11/30/1960 | French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons |
| Special : | 03/04/1960 | French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 |
| Special : | 05/11/1960 | French liner "France" launched |
| Special : | 01/22/1960 | French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu |
| Special : | 08/17/1960 | Gabon gains independence from France (National Day) |
| Special : | 12/18/1960 | General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid |
| Special : | 07/16/1960 | George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on |
| Special : | 09/08/1960 | German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners |
| Special : | 07/01/1960 | Ghana becomes a republic |
| Special : | 12/05/1960 | Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium |
| Special : | 06/18/1960 | Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) |
| Special : | 08/22/1960 | Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352 |
| Special : | 01/26/1960 | Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1741 Giclas |
| Special : | 03/06/1960 | Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3363 |
| Special : | 01/28/1960 | Goon Show's final episode on BBC |
| Special : | 11/27/1960 | Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points |
| Special : | 10/22/1960 | H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2061 Anza |
| Special : | 06/20/1960 | Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (NYC) |
| Special : | 01/26/1960 | High-school basketabll sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points |
| Special : | 06/11/1960 | House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan) |
| Special : | 10/11/1960 | Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die) |
| Special : | 05/01/1960 | India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states |
| Special : | 08/17/1960 | Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands |
| Special : | 09/24/1960 | Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence |
| Special : | 03/26/1960 | Iraq sentences 30 to death after attack on Pres Kassem |
| Special : | 09/14/1960 | Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC |
| Special : | 05/23/1960 | Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina |
| Special : | 05/11/1960 | Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires |
| Special : | 07/19/1960 | Italian Govt Tambroni, resigns |
| Special : | 06/26/1960 | Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration |
| Special : | 07/01/1960 | Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic |
| Special : | 07/26/1960 | Italian cabinet of Fanfani forms |
| Special : | 02/24/1960 | Italian cabinet-Segni falls |
| Special : | 03/25/1960 | Italian govt Tambroni forms |
| Special : | 12/13/1960 | Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals) |
| Special : | 08/07/1960 | Ivory Coast (C“te d'Ivoire) gains independence from France |
| Special : | 11/03/1960 | Ivory Coast adopts constitution |
| Special : | 12/07/1960 | Ivory Coast claims independence from France |
| Special : | 08/08/1960 | Ivory Coast declares independence |
| Special : | 07/11/1960 | Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence |
| Special : | 07/29/1960 | J Schubart discovers asteroid #2000 Herschel |
| Special : | 10/21/1960 | JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC) |
| Special : | 11/08/1960 | JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for president |
| Special : | 02/29/1960 | JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue |
| Special : | 02/11/1960 | Jack Paar walks off his TV show |
| Special : | 10/03/1960 | Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil |
| Special : | 06/23/1960 | Japan signs security treaty with the US |
| Special : | 07/24/1960 | Jay Hebert wins PGA golf tournament |
| Special : | 01/02/1960 | John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years |
| Special : | 08/29/1960 | Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack |
| Special : | 08/16/1960 | Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700') |
| Special : | 05/19/1960 | Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter |
| Special : | 10/01/1960 | KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 07/13/1960 | KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA |
| Special : | 01/--/1960 | KDSJ (now KIVV) TV channel 5 in Lead-Deadwood, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| Special : | 09/14/1960 | KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 10/05/1960 | KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 05/15/1960 | KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 11/07/1960 | KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting |
| Special : | 06/12/1960 | KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins |
| Special : | 04/02/1960 | KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacom, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| Special : | 02/29/1960 | KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 07/31/1960 | KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| Special : | 10/19/1960 | KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 06/29/1960 | KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks) |
| Special : | 03/15/1960 | Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) |
| Special : | 12/15/1960 | King Boudew˜n of Belgium marries do¤a Fabiola de Mora y Aragon |
| Special : | 12/23/1960 | King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power |
| Special : | 01/11/1960 | Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts |
| Special : | 11/11/1960 | Largest NY Knick 49th St MSG crowd-18,499 |
| Special : | 05/07/1960 | Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of USSR |
| Special : | 01/21/1960 | Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km |
| Special : | 09/26/1960 | Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro) |
| Special : | 06/19/1960 | Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl" |
| Special : | 03/04/1960 | Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz |
| Special : | 04/01/1960 | Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee |
| Special : | 06/26/1960 | Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France |
| Special : | 06/25/1960 | Madagascar gains independence of France |
| Special : | 09/22/1960 | Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France |
| Special : | 02/14/1960 | Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
| Special : | 10/19/1960 | Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in |
| Special : | 11/28/1960 | Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day) |
| Special : | 11/12/1960 | Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude |
| Special : | 12/19/1960 | Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight |
| Special : | 05/07/1960 | Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12«-8« for world chess championship |
| Special : | 02/02/1960 | Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss |
| Special : | 07/04/1960 | Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300 |
| Special : | 08/15/1960 | Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0 |
| Special : | 09/16/1960 | Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Phila Phillies, 4-0 |
| Special : | 05/27/1960 | Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey |
| Special : | 07/05/1960 | Mongolia adopts constitution |
| Special : | 04/14/1960 | Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 01/01/1960 | Montserrat adopts constitution |
| Special : | 07/11/1960 | Mo‹se Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence |
| Special : | 10/29/1960 | Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6 |
| Special : | 01/22/1960 | NBA All Star game |
| Special : | 01/28/1960 | NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minn Vikings (1961) franchises |
| Special : | 03/13/1960 | NFL's Chicago Cardinals move to St Louis |
| Special : | 07/11/1960 | NL beats AL 5-3 in 28th All Star Game (Municipal Stadium, KC) |
| Special : | 09/10/1960 | NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit |
| Special : | 09/25/1960 | NY Yankees clinch AL pennent |
| Special : | 03/15/1960 | National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated |
| Special : | 04/08/1960 | Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties |
| Special : | 08/10/1960 | Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea |
| Special : | 08/03/1960 | Niger gains independence from France |
| Special : | 05/09/1960 | Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth |
| Special : | 10/01/1960 | Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| Special : | 10/13/1960 | Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN |
| Special : | 10/12/1960 | Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session |
| Special : | 07/01/1960 | No passports needed inside Benelux |
| Special : | 11/14/1960 | OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms |
| Special : | 01/26/1960 | Oakland enters the AFL |
| Special : | 03/19/1960 | Ohio State beats California 75-55 to win NCAA title |
| Special : | 02/07/1960 | Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea |
| Special : | 09/30/1960 | On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" |
| Special : | 10/13/1960 | Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba |
| Special : | 12/14/1960 | Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms |
| Special : | 09/26/1960 | PLS discovers asteroid #1778 Alfven |
| Special : | 09/24/1960 | PLS discovers asteroids #1743 Schmidt, #1744 Harriet, #1776 Kuiper, |
| Special : | 10/17/1960 | PLS discovers asteroids #1813 Imhotep, #2082 Galahad, #2319 |
| Special : | 09/25/1960 | PLS discovers asteroids #2799 Justus & #2934 Aristophanes |
| Special : | 05/01/1960 | Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis |
| Special : | 12/01/1960 | Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo |
| Special : | 11/27/1960 | Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo |
| Special : | 01/20/1960 | Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo |
| Special : | 10/14/1960 | Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK |
| Special : | 11/02/1960 | Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
| Special : | 01/26/1960 | Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on the 23rd ballot |
| Special : | 12/26/1960 | Phila Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game |
| Special : | 09/25/1960 | Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses |
| Special : | 05/13/1960 | Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game |
| Special : | 01/23/1960 | Piccard & Walsh in bathyscaph reach 10,900 m in Mariana Trench |
| Special : | 03/11/1960 | Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus |
| Special : | 08/06/1960 | Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto |
| Special : | 03/28/1960 | Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal |
| Special : | 07/18/1960 | Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns |
| Special : | 06/16/1960 | Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan |
| Special : | 05/06/1960 | Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 |
| Special : | 09/05/1960 | President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo |
| Special : | 06/13/1960 | Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia |
| Special : | 05/06/1960 | Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones |
| Special : | 04/04/1960 | Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center |
| Special : | 05/02/1960 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent) |
| Special : | 04/01/1960 | RCA (TV & Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched |
| Special : | 08/09/1960 | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
| Special : | 08/12/1960 | Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 11¬" |
| Special : | 10/20/1960 | Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager |
| Special : | 08/16/1960 | Republic of Congo (Zaire) forms |
| Special : | 07/28/1960 | Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate |
| Special : | 11/14/1960 | Riot due to school integration in New Orleans |
| Special : | 01/21/1960 | Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook S Afr, 417 die of methane poisoning |
| Special : | 08/04/1960 | Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH |
| Special : | 10/10/1960 | Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards |
| Special : | 06/06/1960 | Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" |
| Special : | 09/10/1960 | Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins Rome Olympic marathon |
| Special : | 05/01/1960 | Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk |
| Special : | 07/19/1960 | SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies |
| Special : | 10/03/1960 | SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard |
| Special : | 11/13/1960 | Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt |
| Special : | 03/28/1960 | Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland) |
| Special : | 04/10/1960 | Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
| Special : | 01/02/1960 | Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president |
| Special : | 08/20/1960 | Senegal breaks from Mali federation; declaring independence |
| Special : | 04/04/1960 | Senegal declares independence from France |
| Special : | 07/20/1960 | Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon |
| Special : | 01/31/1960 | Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in NYC |
| Special : | 03/21/1960 | South Africa kills 69 blacks in Sharpeville & outlaws ANC |
| Special : | 04/09/1960 | South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle |
| Special : | 04/27/1960 | South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigns |
| Special : | 02/26/1960 | Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia |
| Special : | 05/15/1960 | Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed |
| Special : | 08/19/1960 | Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) |
| Special : | 04/15/1960 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizes at Shaw U |
| Special : | 05/06/1960 | Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta |
| Special : | 08/07/1960 | Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches |
| Special : | 01/12/1960 | Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points |
| Special : | 12/16/1960 | TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134 |
| Special : | 06/17/1960 | Ted Williams hit his 500th HR |
| Special : | 09/28/1960 | Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 |
| Special : | 11/23/1960 | Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched |
| Special : | 04/27/1960 | Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm |
| Special : | 11/27/1960 | Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38 |
| Special : | 04/13/1960 | Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit |
| Special : | 05/06/1960 | Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ram¢n Mercader), flees |
| Special : | 01/14/1960 | Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded |
| Special : | 04/01/1960 | U Nu elected premier of Burma |
| Special : | 08/15/1960 | UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen |
| Special : | 09/20/1960 | UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations) |
| Special : | 01/18/1960 | US & Japan draw joint defense treaty |
| Special : | 07/13/1960 | US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate |
| Special : | 07/25/1960 | US Republicans convention nominate Nixon as presidential candidate |
| Special : | 05/10/1960 | US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip |
| Special : | 01/01/1960 | US census at 179,245,000 |
| Special : | 10/19/1960 | US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba |
| Special : | 05/09/1960 | US send U-2 over USSR |
| Special : | 06/30/1960 | US stops sugar import from Cuba |
| Special : | 02/26/1960 | USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating |
| Special : | 05/19/1960 | USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m |
| Special : | 08/12/1960 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m |
| Special : | 05/10/1960 | USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water |
| Special : | 05/08/1960 | USSR & Cuba regain diplomatic relations |
| Special : | 03/10/1960 | USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing |
| Special : | 08/13/1960 | USSR draws adviseors out of China |
| Special : | 05/14/1960 | USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule |
| Special : | 07/20/1960 | USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space |
| Special : | 08/20/1960 | USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space |
| Special : | 07/01/1960 | USSR shoots down US RB-47 exploration plane |
| Special : | 07/07/1960 | USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea |
| Special : | 07/12/1960 | USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs |
| Special : | 07/27/1960 | VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago |
| Special : | 05/--/1960 | WCRB-FM & WBZ-FM in Boston begin stereo test broadcasts |
| Special : | 06/01/1960 | WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 09/20/1960 | WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 10/10/1960 | WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 05/23/1960 | WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 04/28/1960 | WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 05/23/1960 | WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast |
| Special : | 05/13/1960 | WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR |
| Special : | 05/23/1960 | WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC) |
| Special : | 03/17/1960 | WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 09/30/1960 | West-Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany |
| Special : | 08/28/1960 | White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time |
| Special : | 03/14/1960 | Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points |
| Special : | 11/24/1960 | Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record) |
| Special : | 08/23/1960 | World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea) |
| Special : | 07/12/1960 | XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 10/03/1960 | Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak |
| Special : | 06/30/1960 | Za‹re (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium |
| Special : | 02/27/1960 | oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied in use |
| Special : | 03/06/1960 | president Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament |
| Special : | 02/19/1960 | protest strike in Poznan Poland |
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