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

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Apr 11th - 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
Apr 12th - Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass"
Apr 12th - Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard"
Apr 13th - France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
Apr 13th - Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
Apr 14th - "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
Apr 14th - 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
Apr 14th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games
Apr 15th - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
Apr 17th - American Samoa sets up a constitutional government
Apr 17th - Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn
Apr 19th - 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
Apr 19th - Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
Apr 19th - Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
Apr 20th - "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
Apr 21st - Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil
Apr 21st - Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
Apr 23rd - 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite"
Apr 24th - 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
Apr 24th - Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
Apr 24th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
Apr 24th - Record 4 grand slams hit today
Apr 25th - 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
Apr 27th - 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
Apr 27th - South Korean pres Syngman Rhee resigns
Apr 27th - Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm
Apr 28th - "Christine" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
Apr 28th - WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
May 1st - India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
May 1st - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
May 1st - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
May 2nd - Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
May 2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
May 2nd - "American Bandstand's" Dick Clark
May 2nd - House investigating committee, looking into payola questions
May 3rd - Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in NYC
May 3rd - The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
May 4th - 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
May 6th - English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
May 6th - Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
May 6th - Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
May 6th - Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico
May 7th - "Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
May 7th - "Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 perfs
May 7th - "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances
May 7th - 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4
May 7th - Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery
May 7th - LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry
May 7th - Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR
May 7th - Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship
May 7th - USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
May 8th - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
May 8th - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open
May 9th - Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
May 9th - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
May 9th - US send U-2 over USSR
May 10th - John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
May 10th - US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip
May 10th - USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
May 11th - French liner "France" launched
May 11th - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
May 11th - The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
May 12th - Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
May 13th - 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
May 13th - Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
May 13th - WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
May 14th - "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
May 14th - USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
May 14th - Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Pottstown NY
May 15th - Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
May 15th - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
May 15th - KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
May 15th - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
May 15th - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
May 16th - Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
May 16th - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
May 17th - 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
May 18th - Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
May 18th - Jean Genets "Le Balcon," premieres in Paris
May 19th - Alan Freed & eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
May 19th - Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
May 19th - DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
May 19th - Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
May 19th - USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
May 20th - Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
May 21st - 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
May 22nd - Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
May 23rd - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances
May 23rd - "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24
May 23rd - Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
May 23rd - WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
May 23rd - WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
May 23rd - WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
May 24th - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
May 25th - George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR
May 27th - 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
May 27th - Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
May 27th - Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
May 28th - "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
May 29th - Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
Jun 1st - "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances
Jun 1st - WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jun 2nd - Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
Jun 5th - "George Gobel Show," last airs on CBS-TV
Jun 5th - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
Jun 6th - Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
Jun 6th - South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
Jun 6th - Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
Jun 8th - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
Jun 8th - Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
Jun 9th - ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract
Jun 9th - Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600
Jun 11th - 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
Jun 11th - House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan)
Jun 12th - KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
Jun 12th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
Jun 13th - "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
Jun 13th - Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia
Jun 15th - Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
Jun 15th - Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann
Jun 16th - "Psycho," opens in NY
Jun 16th - Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
Jun 17th - Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
Jun 18th - "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs
Jun 18th - 60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver
Jun 18th - Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
Jun 18th - Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1
Jun 19th - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
Jun 19th - Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl"
Jun 20th - 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt
Jun 20th - Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
Jun 20th - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavywgt boxing title
Jun 20th - Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (NYC)
Jun 21st - Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
Jun 23rd - "Pat Boone Show," last airs on ABC-TV
Jun 23rd - Japan signs security treaty with the US
Jun 24th - Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's
Jun 25th - Earthquake in NE Belgium
Jun 25th - Madagascar gains independence of France
Jun 26th - British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
Jun 26th - Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
Jun 26th - Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration
Jun 26th - Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
Jun 27th - British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
Jun 27th - Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
Jun 27th - Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
Jun 28th - 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
Jun 29th - Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
Jun 29th - KYA-AM in SF changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks)
Jun 30th - US stops sugar import from Cuba