![]() | President: Dwight D. Eisenhower Vice President: Richard M. Nixon |
![]() | The population of the United States is 179,979,000 |
![]() | National Debt 286.3 Billion |
![]() | Unemployment is 5.5% |
![]() | Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years |
![]() | Cost of a first-class stamp is $0.04 |
![]() | Academy Award : Ben-Hur (click to buy) |
![]() | Grammy Award : Mack The Knife (click to buy) |
![]() | Pulitzer Prize : Advise and Consent (fiction), To Kill a Mockingbird (click to buy) |
![]() | First ever Presidential Debate between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon, 70 million people tuned in |
![]() | France tests its first atomic bomb – in the Sahara Desert of Algeria |
![]() | The British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave the “Wind of Change” speech in S. Africa (click to read speech) |
![]() | Adolph Coors III, the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped, and later found murdered |
![]() | The Soviet Union shoots down an American U-2 spy plane and captures its pilot, Francis Gary Powers |
![]() | The FDA approves the first oral contraceptive pill for use as birth control |
![]() | Israeli Mossad agents abduct Adolph Eichmann a Nazi war criminal who was hiding in Brazil and return him to Israel for trail |
![]() | Following months of protests, Woolworth in Greensboro, N. Carolina serves its first meal to a black customer |
![]() | Fidel Castro nationalizes all American and foreign-owned property in Cuba |
![]() | Hurricane Donna kills 50 in the State of Florida and New England |
![]() | Cassius Clay wins the Gold Medal for boxing during the 1960 Summer Olympic Games |
![]() | Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
![]() | Dr. Michael Woodruff carries out the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom |
![]() | D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover (click to buy) |
![]() | United States Presidential election, 1960 : John F Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon by a slim margin |
![]() | Over 1000 Cuban refugees per week begin arriving in Florida fleeing Castro’s rule |
![]() | The first episode of the classic British TV series Coronation Street (click to buy) |
![]() | Other television debuts included:The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons and The Flintstones (click show title for more info) |
![]() | On the music charts itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini (click to buy) |
![]() | Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (click to buy) |
See also Celebrity Birthdays 1960
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