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President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon |
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The population of the United States
is 179,979,000 |
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National Debt 286.3 Billion |
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Unemployment is 5.5% |
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Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years,
Females 73.1 years |
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Cost of a first-class stamp is
$0.04 |
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Academy Award : Ben-Hur (click to buy)
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Grammy Award : Mack The Knife (click to buy)
 (Record),
Come Dance With Me (click to
buy)  (Album) |
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Pulitzer Prize : Advise and Consent
(fiction), To Kill a Mockingbird (click to
buy) 
(non-fiction) |
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First ever Presidential Debate
between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon, 70 million people tuned
in |
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France tests its first atomic bomb
- in the Sahara Desert of Algeria |
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The British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan gave the "Wind of Change" speech in S. Africa
(click to read
speech) |
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Adolph Coors III, the chairman of
the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped, and later
found murdered |
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The Soviet Union shoots down an
American U-2 spy plane and captures its pilot, Francis Gary
Powers |
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The FDA approves the first oral
contraceptive pill for use as birth control |
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Israeli Mossad agents abduct Adolph
Eichmann a Nazi war criminal who was hiding in Brazil and return
him to Israel for trail |
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Following months of protests,
Woolworth in Greensboro, N. Carolina serves its first meal to a
black customer |
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Fidel Castro nationalizes all
American and foreign-owned property in Cuba |
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Hurricane Donna kills 50 in the
State of Florida and New England |
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Cassius Clay wins the Gold Medal
for boxing during the 1960 Summer Olympic Games |
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Joanne Woodward receives the first
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
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Dr. Michael Woodruff carries out
the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom |
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D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover (click
to buy)  is found not
guilty of obscenity |
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United States Presidential
election, 1960 : John F Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon by a slim
margin |
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Over 1000 Cuban refugees per week
begin arriving in Florida fleeing Castro's rule |
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The first episode of the classic
British TV series Coronation Street (click to
buy)  is
broadcast |
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Other television debuts
included:The
Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons and The Flintstones
(click show title for more info) |
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On the music charts itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow
polka dot bikini (click to buy)  managed to
climb to the top |
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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (click to buy)
 terrifies
movie-goer's, other movies include, The Apartment, The
Sundowners, Sons and Lovers |
Pop History
/ 1960
