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Results 1 - 72 of 72

1st - India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
1st - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1st - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
2nd - Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
2nd - "American Bandstand's" Dick Clark
2nd - House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
3rd - Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC
3rd - The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4th - 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
6th - English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
6th - Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
6th - Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
6th - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico
7th - "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
7th - "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 perfs
7th - "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
7th - 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
7th - Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
7th - LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
7th - Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR
7th - Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
7th - USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
8th - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
8th - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
9th - Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
9th - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
9th - US send U-2 over USSR
10th - John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
10th - US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip
10th - USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
11th - French liner "France" launched
11th - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
11th - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
12th - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
13th - 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
13th - Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
13th - WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
14th - "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
14th - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
14th - Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Pottstown NY
15th - Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
15th - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
15th - KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
15th - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
15th - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
16th - Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
16th - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
17th - 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
18th - Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
18th - Jean Genets "Le Balcon," premieres in Paris
19th - Alan Freed & eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
19th - Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
19th - DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
19th - Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
19th - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
20th - Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
21st - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
22nd - Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
23rd - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
23rd - "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
23rd - Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
23rd - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
23rd - WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
23rd - WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
24th - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
25th - George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR
27th - 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
27th - Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
27th - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
28th - "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
29th - Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1