1960s — in der Geschichte
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1960
A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
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1960
Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
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1960
The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
Camelot (musical) · Majestic Theatre (Broadway) · Broadway theatre
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1960
While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
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1960
The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
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1960
Little Joe 1B, ein Mercury-Raumschiff, hebt von der Wallops Insel, Virginia ab, mit Miss Sam, einer weiblichen Rhesusäffchen an Bord.
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1960
Das 5.7 MW starke Erdbeben von Agadir erschüttert die Küste Marokkos mit einer maximalen wahrgenommenen Intensität von X (Extrem), zerstört Agadir und lässt 12.000 Tote und weitere 12.000 Verletzte zurück.
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1960
Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
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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.
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1960
Chad declares independence.
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1960
Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
Richard Paul Pavlick · President-elect of the United States · John F. Kennedy
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1960
Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
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1960
King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
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1960
Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
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1960
Indonesian President Soekarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
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1960
Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
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1960
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
USS Triton (SSRN-586) · Operation Sandblast · New London, Connecticut
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1960
China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
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1960
Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
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1960
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
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1960
USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
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1960
Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
Capital Airlines Flight 20 · Charles City County, Virginia · Capital Airlines
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1960
Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
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1960
Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
Cryptography · National Security Agency · Martin and Mitchell defection
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1960
South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
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1960
Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
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1960
The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration · History of Tibet
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1960
At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
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1960
Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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1960
Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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1960
With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower · United States National Security Council · Cuba
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1960
José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
José Antonio Aguirre (politician) · President of the Basque Country
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1960
The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
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1960
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
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1960
Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
Orlyonok · Young Pioneer camp · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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1960
Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
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1960
Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
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1960
Walter Yust, amerikanischer Journalist und Autor (geb. 1894)
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1960
Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
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1960
In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
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1960
Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
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1960
Nikita Khruschchev, Führer der Sowjetunion, stört eine Sitzung der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen mit einer Reihe wütender Ausbrüche.
Nikita Khrushchev · Soviet Union · United Nations General Assembly
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1960
Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people (out of 72 onboard).
Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 · Lockheed L-188 Electra · Bird strike
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1960
Französische Truppen setzen bei einem Besuch des französischen Präsidenten Charles de Gaulle in Algerien gewaltsam gegen Protestierende ein.
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1960
Paul Sauvé, kanadischer Anwalt und Politiker, 17. Premierminister von Quebec (geb. 1907)
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1960
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
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1960
At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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1960
Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
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1960
Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
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1960
In Buenos Aires, Argentinien, entführen vier Mossad-Agenten den flüchtigen Nazi-Offizier Adolf Eichmann, der unter dem Pseudonym Ricardo Klement lebt.
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1960
Francis Gary Powers wird wegen Spionage angeklagt, die aus seinem Flug über die Sowjetunion resultierte.
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1960
Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
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1960
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
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1960
The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
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1960
In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
Television · United States presidential election debates · Richard M. Nixon
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1960
Nedelin-Katastrophe: Ein R-16 ballistischer Raketenstart auf dem Baikonur Kosmodrom der Sowjetunion explodiert und tötet über 100 Menschen. Unter den Toten ist Marschall Mitrofan Nedelin, dessen Tod angeblich in einem Flugzeugabsturz passiert ist.
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1960
Dr.Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Michael Woodruff · Kidney transplant · Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
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1960
Mauritania becomes independent of France.
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1960
National Airlines Flug 2511 wird in der Luft durch eine Bombe zerstört, während er von New York City nach Miami fliegt.
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1960
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · Harold Macmillan · Wind of Change (speech)
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1960
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
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1960
Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (b. 1870)
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1960
France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
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1960
Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
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1960
Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
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1960
Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
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1960
Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
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1960
Niger gains independence from France.
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1960
Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
Congo Crisis · Central Intelligence Agency · Mobutu Sese Seko
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1960
Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
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1960
Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
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1960
The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
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1960
The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
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1960
Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1877)
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1960
Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
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1960
The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
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1960
Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
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1960
John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
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1960
Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
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1960
Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
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1960
The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
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1960
Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan
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1960
The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
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1960
Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (b. 1884)
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1960
The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
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1960
Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
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1960
Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.