Today in History for February 1960

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 46 of 46

1st - 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
1st - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1st - 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
1st - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
2nd - Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
4th - BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
4th - Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park
4th - Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres
7th - Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
8th - Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
8th - Congress opens hearings looking into payola
8th - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued 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".
9th - AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
10th - "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 perfs
10th - Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres
11th - Jack Paar walks off his TV show
12th - Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
13th - "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 perfs
13th - "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
Queen Elizabeth II 13th - France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
14th - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
14th - Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
16th - US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
18th - 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Cal
18th - Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000
19th - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
19th - Protest strike in Poznan Poland
20th - Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
21st - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
23rd - Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
24th - Italian government of Segni falls
24th - US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1
25th - John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres
25th - Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev 26th - Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
26th - USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
26th - Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
27th - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
27th - US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
28th - 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Cal
28th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
28th - US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Canada
29th - 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
29th - Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec
29th - JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue
29th - KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 67 of 67

2nd - Eric Shea, actor (Castaway Cowboy)
2nd - Lee Chill, Cleveland Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer (1977 Ohio Jr)
3rd - B J Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World)
3rd - Richard Kotzen, rocker
3rd - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)
3rd - Marty Jannetty, American Wrestler
4th - Pamelyn Ferdin, actress (Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders)
4th - Tim Booth, British singer (James)
4th - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
4th - Jenette Goldstein, American actress
4th - Jonathan Larson, American composer (d. 1996)
5th - Jane Geddes, Huntington NY, LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open)
5th - William John Readings, literary theorist
5th - Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
6th - Megan Gallagher, Reading PA, actress (Slap Maxwell, Millennium)
7th - James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
7th - Steve Bronski, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
8th - Alex Scott, British horse trainer
8th - Dino Ciccarelli, Ontario, NHL right wing (Minn North Stars, Wash Caps)
8th - Linda Fratianne, LA California, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
9th - Peggy A Whitson, Mt Ayr Iowa, PhD/astronaut
9th - Holly Johnson, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
10th - Lionel Cartwright, Ohio, country vocalist (I Watched it on the Radio)
10th - Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
11th - Richard A Mastracchio, Waterbury Ct, astronaut
13th - Kelly McCormick, Anaheim California, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
13th - Matt Salinger, Windsor VT, actor (Capt America, Deadly Deception)
13th - Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me)
13th - Pierluigi Collina, Italian football referee
13th - Gary Patterson, American football coach
13th - Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player
14th - Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
14th - Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA California, actress (Big Chill, Impulse)
15th - Darrell Green, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins)
15th - Jeanne Goldsmith, LA California, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1987)
15th - Mikey Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
15th - Jock Hobbs [Michael], chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union and 21 test All Black, (d. 2012)
16th - Cherie Chung, Hong Kong actress
18th - Andy Moog, NHL goalie (Oilers, Bruins, Olympics-Canada-1988)
18th - Greta Scacchi, Milan Italy, actress (Coca-Cola Kid, White Mischief)
18th - Roger Wijesuriya, cricketer (bowling avg 294 in 4 Tests for Sri Lanka)
18th - Carol McGiffin, British TV and radio presenter
19th - Keith Musa[kawukhathi] Zondi, South African head of Inkatha Youth Brigade
19th - Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York
19th - Vicki Lynn Lasseter Iola Kansas, playmate (Feb, 1981)
20th - Kee Marcello, rocker (Europe-Final Countdown)
20th - Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
20th - Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
20th - Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist
21st - Steve Wynn, American singer (
23rd - Cindy Figg-Currier, Mt Pleasant MI, golfer (1994 Brit Open-6th)
23rd - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
23rd - Maria Gloria von Schoenberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis
23rd - Naruhito, crown prince of Japan
23rd - Alan Griffin, Australian politician
25th - Glen Bishop, cricketer (S Aussie bat, 2 ODI's for Australia 1987)
26th - Jaz Coleman, British musician
27th - Andres Gomez, Ecuador, tennis pro (Madrid Grand Prix-1990)
27th - Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
27th - John van Grinsven, soccer player (MVV)
27th - Paul Humphreys, rock synthesizer (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
27th - Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
28th - Dorothy Stratten, Vancouver BC, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina)
29th - Ian McKenzie Anderson, British musician
29th - Khaled, Algerian raï musician
29th - Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker
29th - Richard Ramirez, El Paso, Texas, serial killer (Night Stalker)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

2nd - Jeno Huszka, composer, dies at 84
3rd - Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar, dies at 80
3rd - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
5th - Louis Stricker, cricketer (S Afr open bat in 13 Tests 1909-12), dies
5th - Rudolf Nelson, composer, dies at 81
6th - Jesse Belvin, rocker, dies at 26 in a car crash
7th - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
8th - Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880)
8th - John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
9th - Ernst von Dohnanyi, US composer, dies at 82
9th - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
10th - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
12th - Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown), dies at 71
13th - Delmar G Roos, designer of jeep, dies at 79
20th - Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies
22nd - Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86
22nd - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
23rd - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (b. 1898)
24th - Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
25th - Everhardus J van Romondt, Dutch Antillean minister, dies at 51
26th - Aleksandar Belic, Swedish linguist, dies at 83
27th - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58
28th - F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74
28th - Jonathan Hale, actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68