Historical Events for February 1960
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Results 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
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, Colo
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 govt 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
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, Colo
28th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
28th - US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
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
