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

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Sep 16th - Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
Sep 16th - Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Phila Phillies, 4-0
Sep 17th - "Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
Sep 17th - Cuba nationalizes US banks
Sep 18th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
Sep 19th - Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1
Sep 20th - UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
Sep 20th - WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
Sep 22nd - Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
Sep 24th - 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
Sep 24th - International Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence
Sep 24th - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
Sep 25th - 1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
Sep 25th - Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1
Sep 25th - For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
Sep 25th - NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
Sep 25th - Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
Sep 26th - 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
Sep 26th - Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
Sep 27th - Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station
Sep 28th - "Millionaire," last airs on CBS-TV
Sep 28th - "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," by Connie Francis hits #1
Sep 28th - "Queen For A Day," moves to ABC-TV
Sep 28th - "Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater
Sep 28th - Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher)
Sep 29th - "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV
Sep 29th - "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
Sep 29th - "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV
Sep 29th - "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK
Sep 29th - "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances
Sep 30th - Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show)
Sep 30th - On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
Sep 30th - West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany
Oct 1st - 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
Oct 1st - KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 1st - Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Oct 1st - South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
Oct 2nd - Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
Oct 3rd - "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke
Oct 3rd - Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
Oct 3rd - SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
Oct 3rd - Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, & record 193 HRs
Oct 4th - Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
Oct 5th - British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
Oct 5th - Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
Oct 5th - KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
Oct 7th - "Route 66" premieres
Oct 7th - 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
Oct 8th - Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer
Oct 9th - Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
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