Historical Events for October 1960
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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
