Today in History for October 1960
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 60 of 60
1st - 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
1st - KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1st - Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1st - South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
2nd - Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
3rd - "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke
3rd - Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
3rd - SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
3rd - Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, & record 193 HRs
4th - Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
5th - British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
5th - Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
5th - KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
7th - "Route 66" premieres
7th - 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
8th - Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
9th - Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
10th - "Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs
10th - 16 Calif Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
10th - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
10th - Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
10th - WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
11th - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
11th - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
12th - JFK & Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate
12th - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
12th - Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The camera was rolling at that time.
13th - 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
13th - Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
13th - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
13th - Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series
14th - Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
14th - Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
15th - "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 perfs
16th - NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
17th - "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances
17th - US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
18th - Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
18th - In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News
19th - France grants Mauritania independence
19th - KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
19th - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
19th - US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
20th - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
20th - Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
21st - 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
21st - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
22nd - Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
24th - Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
25th - 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
25th - Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
26th - AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises in LA & Wash DC for 1961
27th - AL admits LA & Washington to the league
27th - Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
29th - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight
29th - Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
29th - Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
30th - Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
30th - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
31st - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 74 of 74
1st - Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Nov 1]
2nd - Django Bates, jazz musician
2nd - Glenn Anderson, Vancouver, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
2nd - Al Connelly, Canadian Musician/Songwriter
3rd - Cinzia De Ponti, [Fiordeponti], Pescara Italy (Miss Italy 1979)
4th - Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Apopka Fla, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
4th - Jennifer Anglin, Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
4th - Joe Boever, American baseball player
5th - Daniel Baldwin, American actor
5th - Careca, Brazilian footballer
6th - Albert Lewis, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
6th - Jeffrey Trachta, Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful)
6th - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
6th - Scott Stevens, jockey
7th - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
7th - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
8th - Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
8th - François Pérusse, Quebec humorist
8th - Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
10th - Eric Martin, rocker (Mr Big)
11th - Curt Ford, baseball player
11th - Joe Nash, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
12th - Lionel Washington, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
12th - Stephen Brent Lowery, Birmingham AL, PGA golfer (1994 Sprint)
13th - Greg Derr, Marshfield Mass, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
13th - Joey Belladonna, Oswego NY, heavy metal vocalist (Anthrax-Protest)
13th - Tim Brewster, American football coach
13th - Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
13th - Peter Keisler, acting United States attorney general
14th - John Aalberg, Orland Norway, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
14th - Steve Cram, English runner (world record mile/2 km)
16th - Val Skinner, Hamilton MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Championship)
16th - Bob Mould, American musician
17th - James Patrick Delsing, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
17th - Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991)
17th - Rob Marshall, American director
17th - Guy Henry, English actor
18th - Doug Lidster, Kamloops, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
18th - Emily Arth, Evanston Ill, playmate (Jun, 1988)
18th - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
19th - Dan "Woody" Woodgate, London, rock drummer (Madness)
19th - Dawn Coe-Jones, Campbell River BC, LPGA golfer (1992 Kemper Open)
19th - Jennifer Holliday, Houston Tx, singer/actress (Dream Girls)
19th - Woody, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
19th - Jonathan FeBland, English musician and artist
20th - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
20th - Lepa Brena, famous Yugoslav singer
21st - Lionel Washington, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
22nd - Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
23rd - Wayne Rainey, American motorcyclist
23rd - Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author
24th - Carolien de Windt, Suriname/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
24th - Ian Baker-Finch, Nambour Queensland, PGA golfer (1991 British Open)
24th - B.D. Wong, American actor
24th - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
24th - Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver
25th - Kelli McMullen-Temple, Columbus OH, Canadian equestrian (Olympics-96)
25th - Scott Anthony Haneline, Indianapolis, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
25th - Tom Eplin, Hayward Calif, actor (Jake McKinnon-Another World)
26th - Brian Hansen, NFL punter (NY Jets)
26th - June Brigman, American comic book artist
27th - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
28th - Mark Derwin, Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
28th - Robert Pukalovic, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)
28th - Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times
29th - Michael Carter, Dallas Tx, shot putter (Olympic-silver-1984)
30th - David Valle, Bayside NY, catcher (Texas Rangers)
30th - Diego A Maradona, Argentina/Italy soccer player (World Cup)
30th - Kim Thompson, Bath England, actress (Stealing Heaven)
30th - Monica Bellucci, Citta di Castello Italy, actress (Dracula)
31st - Janice Harrer, Torrance Ca, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-1989, Oly-96)
31st - Reza Pahlavi, Iran, son of Shah of Iran
31st - Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rican delegate to Congress
31st - Arnaud Desplechin, French film director
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 14 of 14
2nd - Jaroslav Doubrava, composer, dies at 51
6th - Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing), dies at 50
9th - Howard Glenn, NY Titan, dies of injuries sustain in this day's game
11th - Richard Cromwell, actor (Jezebel, Riot Squad), dies of cancer at 50
12th - Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
14th - Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies
15th - Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
15th - Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70
15th - Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84
19th - Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Busskantate), dies at 57
22nd - Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67
25th - Jose Padilla, composer, dies at 71
30th - Alfred Hill, composer, dies at 89
31st - H L Davis, US writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64
