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Months in Year 1960: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

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Oct 10th - "Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs
Oct 10th - 16 Calif Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
Oct 10th - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
Oct 10th - Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
Oct 10th - WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 11th - Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
Oct 11th - Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
Oct 12th - JFK & Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate
Oct 12th - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
Oct 12th - Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The camera was rolling at that time.
Oct 13th - 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
Oct 13th - Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
Oct 13th - Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
Oct 13th - Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series
Oct 14th - Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
Oct 14th - Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK
Oct 15th - "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 perfs
Oct 16th - NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league
Oct 17th - "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances
Oct 17th - US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases
Oct 18th - Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)
Oct 18th - In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News
Oct 19th - France grants Mauritania independence
Oct 19th - KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
Oct 19th - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
Oct 19th - US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
Oct 20th - 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
Oct 20th - Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
Oct 21st - 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
Oct 21st - JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC)
Oct 22nd - Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
Oct 24th - Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
Oct 25th - 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
Oct 25th - Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
Oct 26th - AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises in LA & Wash DC for 1961
Oct 27th - AL admits LA & Washington to the league
Oct 27th - Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
Oct 29th - Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1st professional fight
Oct 29th - Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
Oct 29th - Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
Oct 30th - Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
Oct 30th - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Oct 31st - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die
Nov 1st - Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
Nov 1st - Benelux treaty goes into effect
Nov 2nd - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
Nov 2nd - George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of NY Yankees
Nov 2nd - Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Nov 2nd - Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222
Nov 3rd - "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs
Nov 3rd - Ivory Coast adopts constitution
Nov 3rd - Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
Nov 3rd - Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown," premieres in NYC
Nov 4th - "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
Nov 7th - KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
Nov 8th - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US president
Nov 10th - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
Nov 11th - Largest NY Knick 49th St MSG crowd-18,499
Nov 12th - Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
Nov 12th - Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
Nov 13th - Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)
Nov 13th - Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt
Nov 14th - 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
Nov 14th - Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on it's Congo-policy
Nov 14th - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
Nov 14th - Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1
Nov 14th - Riot due to school integration in New Orleans
Nov 15th - Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks
Nov 15th - USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
Nov 16th - NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
Nov 17th - New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
Nov 18th - Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
Nov 18th - Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
Nov 19th - Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
Nov 21st - Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
Nov 22nd - French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
Nov 23rd - Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
Nov 23rd - Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St
Nov 23rd - Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
Nov 24th - Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
Nov 25th - "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
Nov 25th - 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
Nov 25th - CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series
Nov 25th - The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
Nov 26th - 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
Nov 26th - Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins
Nov 27th - CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
Nov 27th - Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
Nov 27th - Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
Nov 27th - Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
Nov 27th - Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
Nov 28th - CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
Nov 28th - Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)
Nov 29th - 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
Nov 30th - French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
Nov 30th - Tad Mosels "All the Way Home," premieres in NYC
Dec 1st - Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
Dec 1st - Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusation of attempted arson.
Dec 3rd - "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
Dec 3rd - Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot," premieres in NYC

Famous Birthdays

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Sep 2nd - John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
Sep 4th - Damon Wayans, actor/comedian (In Living Color, Major Payne, Blankman)
Sep 4th - Peter Virgile, soap actor (Hostage, Popeye Doyle)
Sep 4th - Kim Thayil, American guitarist (Soundgarden, Probot)
Sep 5th - Rob Stull, Damascus Md, US pentathlete (Olympic-92)
Sep 5th - Willie Gault, bob sledder/NFL receiver (Chicago Bears, LA Raiders)
Sep 6th - Michael Winslow, Spokane WA, actor/comedian (Police Academy)
Sep 7th - David Steele, Birmingham, rock keyboardist (Fine Young Cannibals)
Sep 7th - Carlos Martinez, American bowler
Sep 7th - Andrew Voss, Australian television personality
Sep 8th - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of princess Caroline of Monaco
Sep 8th - Aimee Mann, American musician
Sep 9th - Christopher Sherratt White, Hamilton NZ, rower (Olympics-96)
Sep 9th - Hugh Grant, London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9 Months)
Sep 9th - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
Sep 9th - Bob Stoops, American football coach
Sep 10th - Colin Firth, Hampshire England, actor (Femme Fatale, Hostages)
Sep 10th - Miranda Wilson, Nebraska, actress (Sandra-Santa Barbara)
Sep 10th - Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
Sep 10th - David Lowery, American musician
Sep 11th - Neal X, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
Sep 12th - Lynn Connelly, Washington DC, LPGA golfer (1988 USX Golf Classic-6th)
Sep 13th - Greg Baldwin, American voiceover actor (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Sep 14th - Anthony Addabbo, actor (Jason-Generations)
Sep 14th - Melissa Leo, American actress
Sep 14th - Callum Keith Rennie, Canadian actor
Sep 15th - Scott Thompson Baker, Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children)
Sep 15th - Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
Sep 16th - Mickey Tettleton, Oklahoma City OK, catcher (Texas Rangers)
Sep 16th - Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
Sep 17th - Hank Baran, San Diego Calif, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Won Mexican)
Sep 17th - John Franco, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (NY Mets)
Sep 17th - Terry Nihen, Concord Mass, playmate (December, 1983)
Sep 18th - Kim Wilde, [Kim Smith], Chiswick England, vocalist
Sep 18th - Karim Rashid, Egyptian/English industrial designer
Sep 19th - Julianna Young, Ft Campbell KY, playmate (Nov, 1993)
Sep 19th - Loïc Bigois, French engineer
Sep 20th - Alice Regina Brown, Jackson MS, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
Sep 20th - James A Pawelczyk, Buffalo NY, PhD/astronaut (sk STS 90)
Sep 20th - Deborah Roberts, American journalist and TV reporter
Sep 21st - David James Elliott, Toronto, actor (Seinfeld, Lt Harmon Rabb-Jag)
Sep 22nd - Joan Jett, Phila, singer (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll)
Sep 22nd - Scott Baio, Bkln, (Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, Zapped)
Sep 22nd - Victor Stevenson, CFL tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
Sep 23rd - John Rocca, English funk singer (Southern Freeze)
Sep 25th - John Hills, horse trainer
Sep 25th - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
Sep 25th - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
Sep 26th - Bret Erickson, Bennington Nebraska, US trap (Olympics-1996)
Sep 27th - Nick della Casa, British/Brazillian/Argentine cameraman (Emmy Award)
Sep 27th - Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
Sep 28th - Derek James, Durban South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Infiniti)
Sep 28th - Gus Logie, cricketer (WI batsman 1983-91, great fielder)
Sep 28th - Jennifer Rush, singer/songwriter (Destiny, Ring of Ice)
Sep 28th - Tom Byrum, Onida SD, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Panama City Beach-4th)
Sep 29th - John MacBeth Paxson, NBA Guard (Chicago Bulls)
Sep 29th - Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Capitol)
Sep 29th - Rob Deer, MLB Outfielder (Milw Brewers)
Sep 29th - Wendy White, Atlanta Ga, tennis player
Sep 30th - Mike Herbert, Rogers Ark, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
Sep 30th - Susan Keith, actress (Shana Vochek-Loving)
Sep 30th - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
Oct 1st - Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Guiding Light) [or Nov 1]
Oct 2nd - Django Bates, jazz musician
Oct 2nd - Glenn Anderson, Vancouver, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
Oct 2nd - Al Connelly, Canadian Musician/Songwriter
Oct 3rd - Cinzia De Ponti, [Fiordeponti], Pescara Italy (Miss Italy 1979)
Oct 4th - Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Apopka Fla, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
Oct 4th - Jennifer Anglin, Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
Oct 4th - Joe Boever, American baseball player
Oct 5th - Daniel Baldwin, American actor
Oct 5th - Careca, Brazilian footballer
Oct 6th - Albert Lewis, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
Oct 6th - Jeffrey Trachta, Staten Island NY, actor (Thorne-Bold & Beautiful)
Oct 6th - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
Oct 6th - Scott Stevens, jockey
Oct 7th - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
Oct 7th - Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer
Oct 8th - Lorenzo Milá, Spanish newscaster
Oct 8th - François Pérusse, Quebec humorist
Oct 8th - Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur
Oct 10th - Eric Martin, rocker (Mr Big)
Oct 11th - Curt Ford, baseball player
Oct 11th - Joe Nash, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
Oct 12th - Lionel Washington, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
Oct 12th - Stephen Brent Lowery, Birmingham AL, PGA golfer (1994 Sprint)
Oct 13th - Greg Derr, Marshfield Mass, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
Oct 13th - Joey Belladonna, Oswego NY, heavy metal vocalist (Anthrax-Protest)
Oct 13th - Tim Brewster, American football coach
Oct 13th - Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary
Oct 13th - Peter Keisler, acting United States attorney general
Oct 14th - John Aalberg, Orland Norway, US cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
Oct 14th - Steve Cram, English runner (world record mile/2 km)
Oct 16th - Val Skinner, Hamilton MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Sprint Championship)
Oct 16th - Bob Mould, American musician
Oct 17th - James Patrick Delsing, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1993 New England-2nd)
Oct 17th - Mandy Yachad, cricketer (South African ODI opening batsman 1991)
Oct 17th - Rob Marshall, American director
Oct 17th - Guy Henry, English actor
Oct 18th - Doug Lidster, Kamloops, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)

Famous Deaths

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