Notable Historical Events - 1960
1960 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Bank of France issues new franc, worth 100 times the value of existing francs |
Jan 1 |
Cameroon (French Cameroon) gains independence from France |
Jan 1 |
Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars |
Jan 1 |
Montserrat adopts constitution |
Jan 1 |
A photograph of a 13 year-old South African boy in a torn vest appears in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald. According to the Native Labour Regulation Act, it was an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. |
Jan 2 |
1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) |
Jan 2 |
John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years |
Jan 2 |
Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres |
Jan 2 |
Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency |
Jan 4 |
European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm |
Jan 5 |
Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating |
Jan 9 |
Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins |
Jan 10 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz |
Jan 11 |
Chad declares independence from France |
Jan 11 |
Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts |
Jan 12 |
Sobers & Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wkt v England |
Jan 12 |
Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points |
Jan 14 |
Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded |
Jan 14 |
US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant |
Jan 17 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
Jan 17 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21 |
Jan 18 |
US & Japan sign joint defense treaty |
Jan 19 |
Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact |
Jan 20 |
Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo |
Jan 21 |
Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km |
Jan 21 |
Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook, South Africa; 417 die of methane poisoning |
Jan 22 |
10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia |
Jan 22 |
French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu |
Jan 22 |
Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title |
Jan 23 |
Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m) |
Jan 24 |
Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle |
Jan 26 |
High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points |
Jan 26 |
Oakland enters AFL |
Jan 26 |
Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot |
Jan 28 |
1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC |
Jan 28 |
Goon Show's final episode on BBC |
Jan 28 |
NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises |
Jan 30 |
CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft (Oxcart) |
Jan 30 |
Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands |
Jan 30 |
Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI v England |
Jan 30 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
Jan 30 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
Feb 1 |
34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62) |
Feb 1 |
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth |
Feb 1 |
48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86) |
Feb 1 |
Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender |
Feb 2 |
Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss |
Feb 4 |
BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member |
Feb 4 |
Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park |
Feb 4 |
Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres |
Feb 7 |
Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea |
Feb 8 |
Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51) |
Feb 8 |
Congress opens hearings looking into payola |
Feb 8 |
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". |
Feb 9 |
AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact |
Feb 10 |
"Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 perfs |
Feb 10 |
Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres |
Feb 11 |
Jack Paar walks off his TV show |
Feb 12 |
Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers |
Feb 13 |
"Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
Feb 13 |
"Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances |
Feb 13 |
France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
Feb 14 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
Feb 14 |
Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
Feb 16 |
US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip |
Feb 18 |
8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Cal |
Feb 18 |
Walter O'Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000 |
Feb 19 |
Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts |
Feb 19 |
Protest strike in Poznan, Poland |
Feb 20 |
Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig. |
Feb 21 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
Feb 23 |
Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913) |
Feb 24 |
Italian government of Segni falls |
Feb 24 |
US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1 |
Feb 25 |
John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres |
Feb 25 |
Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC |
Feb 26 |
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia |
Feb 26 |
USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating |
Feb 26 |
Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
Feb 26 |
Vera Miles stars in the famous "Mirror Image" episode of the classic CBS television series "The Twilight Zone" |
Feb 27 |
Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens |
Feb 27 |
US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal |
Feb 28 |
8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Cal |
Feb 28 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
Feb 28 |
US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Canada |
Feb 29 |
1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago |
Feb 29 |
Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec |
Feb 29 |
JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue |
Feb 29 |
KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 3 |
9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5") |
Mar 4 |
French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 |
Mar 5 |
Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army |
Mar 5 |
Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB) |
Mar 5 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner & Paul (CAN) |
Mar 5 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA) |
Mar 5 |
Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA) |
Mar 5 |
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase. |
Mar 6 |
President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament |
Mar 7 |
Dutch Builders strike for CLA |
Mar 8 |
"Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances |
Mar 10 |
USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing |
Mar 11 |
Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus |
Mar 13 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 13 |
NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis |
Mar 13 |
White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number |
Mar 14 |
14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif |
Mar 14 |
Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points |
Mar 15 |
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) |
Mar 15 |
National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated |
Mar 17 |
Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA |
Mar 17 |
WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 19 |
"Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances |
Mar 19 |
22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55 |
Mar 21 |
Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC |
Mar 22 |
1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes |
Mar 23 |
Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit |
Mar 24 |
US appeals court rules novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" not obscene |
Mar 25 |
1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) |
Mar 25 |
DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC) |
Mar 25 |
Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires |
Mar 25 |
Italian government Tambroni forms |
Mar 26 |
Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem |
Mar 26 |
Orioles-Reds series planned for Havana is moved to Miami |
Mar 26 |
USC captures NCAA swimming title |
Mar 27 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open |
Mar 28 |
Pope John appoints the first Japanese, African & Filipino cardinals |
Mar 28 |
Scotch whisky factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow, Scotland) |
Mar 29 |
Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres |
Mar 31 |
Gore Vidal's "Best Man" premieres in NYC |
Apr 1 |
Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 179,245,000 |
Apr 1 |
2nd French atom bomb explodes (Sahara) |
Apr 1 |
France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria |
Apr 1 |
Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee |
Apr 1 |
U Nu elected premier of Burma |
Apr 1 |
1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1) |
Apr 2 |
Cuba buys oil from USSR |
Apr 2 |
KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast |
Apr 3 |
Earthquake at Havre, Belgium |
Apr 4 |
32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win |
Apr 4 |
Oscar awarded to Neth director Bert Haanstra |
Apr 4 |
Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center |
Apr 4 |
Senegal declares independence from France |
Apr 8 |
Neth & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties |
Apr 8 |
US Senate passes Civil Rights Bill with measures against discriminatory voting pracrices |
Apr 9 |
14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 9 |
South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle |
Apr 10 |
24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282 |
Apr 10 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Apr 10 |
Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
Apr 12 |
Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass" |
Apr 12 |
Bill Veeck & Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard" |
Apr 13 |
France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara |
Apr 13 |
Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit |
Apr 14 |
"Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances |
Apr 14 |
1st underwater launching of Polaris missile |
Apr 14 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games |
Apr 15 |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U |
Apr 17 |
American Samoa sets up a constitutional government |
Apr 17 |
Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn |
Apr 19 |
64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54 |
Apr 19 |
Baseball uniforms begin displaying players' names on their backs |
Apr 19 |
Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating |
Apr 20 |
"From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances |
Apr 21 |
Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil |
Apr 21 |
Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C. |
Apr 23 |
1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite" |
Apr 24 |
14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win |
Apr 24 |
Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed |
Apr 24 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
Apr 24 |
Record 4 grand slams hit today |
Apr 25 |
1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton) |
Apr 27 |
1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee) |
Apr 27 |
South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns |
Apr 27 |
Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm |
Apr 28 |
"Christine" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Apr 28 |
WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 28 |
Elena Kagan, New York, US Supreme Court Judge |
May 1 |
India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states |
May 1 |
Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis |
May 1 |
Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk |
May 2 |
Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance |
May 2 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent) |
May 2 |
"American Bandstand's" Dick Clark |
May 2 |
House investigating committee, looking into payola questions |
May 3 |
Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks" premieres in NYC |
May 3 |
The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
May 4 |
1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland |
May 6 |
US President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 |
May 6 |
Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta |
May 6 |
Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader) freed in Mexico |
May 7 |
"Christine" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances |
May 7 |
"Flower Drum Song" closes at St James Theater NYC after 602 perfs |
May 7 |
"From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 21 performances |
May 7 |
86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4 |
May 7 |
Dodgers Larry & Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery |
May 7 |
LA Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th HR wins the game for brother Larry |
May 7 |
Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as pres of USSR |
May 7 |
Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12½-8½ for world chess championship |
May 7 |
USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy |
May 8 |
USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations |
May 8 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open |
May 9 |
Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth |
May 9 |
US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally |
May 9 |
US send U-2 over USSR |
May 10 |
John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia |
May 10 |
US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe |
May 11 |
French liner "France" launched |
May 11 |
Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires |
May 11 |
The first contraceptive pill is made available on the market. |
May 12 |
Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special |
May 13 |
1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed |
May 13 |
Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game |
May 13 |
WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR |
May 14 |
"At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs |
May 14 |
USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule |
May 14 |
Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis" premieres in Potsdam NY |
May 15 |
Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 |
May 15 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet premieres in Leningrad |
May 15 |
KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 15 |
Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed |
May 15 |
Taxes took 25% of earnings in US |
May 16 |
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US |
May 16 |
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. |
May 17 |
1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA |
May 18 |
Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs) |
May 18 |
Jean Genet's "Le Balcon" premieres in Paris |
May 19 |
Alan Freed & eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola |
May 19 |
Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed |
May 19 |
Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter |
May 19 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m |
May 20 |
Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog |
May 21 |
86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6 |
May 22 |
Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM |
May 23 |
"Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 12 performances |
May 23 |
"Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24 |
May 23 |
Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina |
May 23 |
WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
May 23 |
WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast |
May 23 |
WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC) |
May 24 |
1 millionth Dutch telephone installed |
May 25 |
George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit HR |
May 27 |
1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney) |
May 27 |
Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt |
May 27 |
Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey |
May 28 |
"Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances |
May 29 |
Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1 |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Jim Rathmann wins in 3:36:11.384 (223.324 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
"Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 12 performances |
Jun 1 |
WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 2 |
Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity) |
Jun 5 |
"George Gobel Show" last airs on CBS-TV |
Jun 5 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
Jun 6 |
Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" |
Jun 6 |
South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
Jun 6 |
"Steve Allen Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 8 |
1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House" |
Jun 8 |
Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann |
Jun 9 |
ABC & AFL sign a 5 year contract |
Jun 9 |
Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600 |
Jun 11 |
92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2 |
Jun 11 |
House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan) |
Jun 12 |
KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins |
Jun 12 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
Jun 13 |
"Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59 |
Jun 13 |
Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia |
Jun 15 |
Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races |
Jun 15 |
Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann |
Jun 16 |
"Psycho", starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in NY |
Jun 16 |
Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan |
Jun 17 |
Ted Williams hit his 500th HR |
Jun 18 |
"Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 perfs |
Jun 18 |
60th US Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver |
Jun 18 |
Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) |
Jun 18 |
Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1 |
Jun 19 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
Jun 19 |
Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl" |
Jun 20 |
12th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt win |
Jun 20 |
Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France |
Jun 20 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 21 |
Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0) |
Jun 23 |
"Pat Boone Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
Jun 23 |
Japan signs security treaty with the US |
Jun 24 |
Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's |
Jun 25 |
Earthquake in NE Belgium |
Jun 25 |
Madagascar gains independence from France |
Jun 25 |
Somaliland is granted independence by British government |
Jun 25 |
South Africa beats New Zealand 13-0 in the first rugby test of the series in Johannesburg |
Jun 26 |
British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain |
Jun 26 |
Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually |
Jun 26 |
Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian administration |
Jun 26 |
Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France |
Jun 27 |
British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia |
Jun 27 |
Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Jun 27 |
Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens |
Jun 28 |
10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record) |
Jun 29 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
Jun 29 |
KYA-AM in SF changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks) |
Jun 30 |
US stops sugar import from Cuba |
Jun 30 |
Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium |
Jul 1 |
Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel |
Jul 1 |
The independent Somali Democratic Republic, commonly known as Somalia, is formed out of former British and Italian territories |
Jul 1 |
Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba |
Jul 1 |
Ghana becomes a republic |
Jul 1 |
No passports needed inside Benelux |
Jul 1 |
USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane |
Jul 1 |
Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons" premieres in London |
Jul 1 |
74th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Rod Laver (6-4 3-6 9-7 7-5) |
Jul 2 |
"Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 perfs |
Jul 4 |
6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Jul 4 |
America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled |
Jul 4 |
Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 HRs |
Jul 5 |
Mongolia adopts constitution |
Jul 6 |
Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC |
Jul 7 |
US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands |
Jul 7 |
USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea |
Jul 8 |
Fidel Castro ends Havana's Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to NJ |
Jul 10 |
Belgium sends troops to Congo |
Jul 10 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open) |
Jul 11 |
28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC |
Jul 11 |
Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution |
Jul 11 |
Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence |
Jul 11 |
Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence |
Jul 12 |
Congo, Chad & Central African Republic declare independence |
Jul 12 |
Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched |
Jul 12 |
Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
Jul 12 |
USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs |
Jul 12 |
XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jul 12 |
Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded. |
Jul 13 |
29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York |
Jul 13 |
KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA |
Jul 13 |
US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate |
Jul 14 |
Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Jul 14 |
Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300 |
Jul 15 |
Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle |
Jul 15 |
UN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis after Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé's declaration of independence for Katanga province |
Jul 16 |
205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer |
Jul 16 |
George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on |
Jul 18 |
1st UN troops reach Congo |
Jul 18 |
Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises |
Jul 18 |
Premier Kishi of Japan resigns |
Jul 19 |
Italian government Tambroni, resigns |
Jul 19 |
SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies |
Jul 20 |
1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington) |
Jul 20 |
Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon |
Jul 20 |
USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space |
Jul 20 |
The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage. |
Jul 21 |
Country of Katanga forms in Africa |
Jul 21 |
In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM |
Jul 21 |
Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing |
Jul 22 |
Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories |
Jul 23 |
15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
Jul 24 |
42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron |
Jul 25 |
Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels |
Jul 26 |
Italian government of Fanfani forms |
Jul 27 |
US Vice-president Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago |
Jul 28 |
Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate |
Jul 30 |
1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7) |
Jul 31 |
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state |
Jul 31 |
KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Jul 31 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
Aug 1 |
Aretha Franklins 1st recording session |
Aug 1 |
Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France |
Aug 1 |
Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" |
Aug 1 |
Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. |
Aug 3 |
Niger gains independence from France |
Aug 4 |
Rocket propelled USAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH |
Aug 5 |
Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France |
Aug 5 |
Detroit trades manager Jimmy Dykes for Cleve's Joe Gordon |
Aug 6 |
Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto |
Aug 6 |
The UN Security Council lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo |
Aug 7 |
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France |
Aug 7 |
Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches |
Aug 7 |
Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
Aug 8 |
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1 |
Aug 8 |
Ivory Coast declares independence |
Aug 8 |
South Kasai secedes from the Congo. |
Aug 8 |
Charges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa are dropped |
Aug 9 |
Race riot in Jacksonville, Florida |
Aug 10 |
Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space |
Aug 10 |
Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea |
Aug 11 |
Chad declares Independence from France |
Aug 12 |
27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000) |
Aug 12 |
Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched |
Aug 12 |
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 8.21m |
Aug 12 |
USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 41,600 m |
Aug 13 |
Central African Republic & Chad proclaim independence from France |
Aug 13 |
USSR withdraws advisors from China |
Aug 13 |
The first two-way conversation via satellite is undertaken using Echo 1 |
Aug 14 |
UN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo |
Aug 15 |
CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium |
Aug 15 |
Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo) |
Aug 15 |
Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France |
Aug 15 |
Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 |
Aug 15 |
UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen |
Aug 16 |
Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus |
Aug 16 |
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700') |
Aug 16 |
Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms |
Aug 17 |
Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow |
Aug 17 |
Gabon gains independence from France (National Day) |
Aug 17 |
Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands |
Aug 18 |
1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill |
Aug 18 |
1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Richardson, Texas |
Aug 18 |
The Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg) |
Aug 18 |
Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies |
Aug 19 |
Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident) |
Aug 19 |
Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit as the first animals launched on a round trip into space (later recovered alive) |
Aug 19 |
The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts |
Aug 20 |
Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence |
Aug 20 |
USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space |
Aug 22 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open |
Aug 22 |
Gil Hodges set NL righty HR record with #352 |
Aug 23 |
World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea) |
Aug 24 |
-127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
Aug 24 |
60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil |
Aug 25 |
17th summer olympics opens in Rome |
Aug 25 |
AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies |
Aug 25 |
Demonstrations against premier Lumumba |
Aug 27 |
Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5) |
Aug 27 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open |
Aug 28 |
White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time |
Aug 29 |
Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack |
Aug 30 |
Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7 |
Aug 30 |
East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin |
Aug 31 |
Agricultural Hall of Fame forms |
Sep 1 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
Sep 2 |
Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold |
Sep 2 |
William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
Sep 2 |
The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day. |
Sep 4 |
-12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean & US |
Sep 5 |
Cassius Clay wins Olympic light heavyweight gold medal |
Sep 5 |
President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo |
Sep 5 |
Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal |
Sep 5 |
A.J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Ill. State Fairgrounds. |
Sep 5 |
The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. |
Sep 7 |
Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3) |
Sep 8 |
German Democratic Republic limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners |
Sep 9 |
4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) |
Sep 10 |
Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) |
Sep 10 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit |
Sep 11 |
17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy |
Sep 11 |
74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) |
Sep 11 |
80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) |
Sep 11 |
The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the Sharon Statement. |
Sep 12 |
"Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Sep 12 |
John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him. |
Sep 13 |
Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law |
Sep 14 |
Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 |
Sep 14 |
Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo |
Sep 14 |
Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
Sep 14 |
KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 15 |
France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments |
Sep 15 |
Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time. |
Sep 16 |
Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 |
Sep 16 |
Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 |
Sep 17 |
"Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
Sep 17 |
Cuba nationalizes US banks |
Sep 18 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
Sep 19 |
Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 |
Sep 20 |
UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations) |
Sep 20 |
WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 22 |
Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France |
Sep 24 |
International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence |
Sep 24 |
USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched |
Sep 25 |
Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 |
Sep 25 |
For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant |
Sep 25 |
NY Yankees clinch AL pennant |
Sep 25 |
Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses |
Sep 26 |
1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago) |
Sep 26 |
Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro) |
Sep 27 |
Europe's 1st "moving pavement" (travelator), opens at Bank station on the London Underground |
Sep 28 |
"Millionaire" last airs on CBS-TV |
Sep 28 |
"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" by Connie Francis hits #1 |
Sep 28 |
"Queen For A Day" moves to ABC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater |
Sep 28 |
Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 (off Jack Fisher) |
Sep 29 |
"Johnny Ringo" TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
"My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Outlaws" TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK |
Sep 29 |
"lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances |
Sep 30 |
Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show) |
Sep 30 |
On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" |
Sep 30 |
West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany |
Oct 1 |
14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal |
Oct 1 |
KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 1 |
Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Oct 2 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament |
Oct 3 |
"Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke |
Oct 3 |
Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil |
Oct 3 |
SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard |
Oct 3 |
Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, & record 193 HRs |
Oct 4 |
Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit |
Oct 5 |
British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament |
Oct 5 |
Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die) |
Oct 5 |
KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 7 |
"Route 66" premieres |
Oct 7 |
2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate |
Oct 8 |
Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer |
Oct 9 |
Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2") |
Oct 10 |
"Laughs & Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 perfs |
Oct 10 |
16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo |
Oct 10 |
Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die |
Oct 10 |
Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards |
Oct 10 |
WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 11 |
Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die) |
Oct 11 |
Radio/TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers |
Oct 12 |
JFK & Richard Nixon's third presidential debate |
Oct 12 |
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session |
Oct 12 |
Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The camera was rolling at that time. |
Oct 13 |
Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY |
Oct 13 |
Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba |
Oct 13 |
Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series |
Oct 14 |
Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen |
Oct 14 |
Peace Corps 1st suggested by JFK |
Oct 15 |
"Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 perfs |
Oct 16 |
NL votes to admit Houston & NY to league |
Oct 17 |
"Tenderloin" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 216 performances |
Oct 17 |
US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases |
Oct 18 |
Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) |
Oct 18 |
In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News |
Oct 19 |
France grants Mauritania independence |
Oct 19 |
KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting |
Oct 19 |
Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in |
Oct 19 |
US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba |
Oct 20 |
1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI |
Oct 20 |
Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager |
Oct 21 |
1st British nuclear sub HMS Dreadnought launched |
Oct 21 |
JFK & Nixon clashed in 4th & final presidential debate (NYC) |
Oct 24 |
Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash |
Oct 25 |
1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC |
Oct 25 |
Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses |
Oct 26 |
AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins & announces franchises in LA & Wash DC for 1961 |
Oct 27 |
AL admits LA & Washington to the league |
Oct 27 |
Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me" |
Oct 29 |
Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16 |
Oct 29 |
Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6 |
Oct 30 |
Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba |
Oct 30 |
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. |
Oct 31 |
Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die |
Nov 1 |
Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 1 |
Benelux treaty goes into effect |
Nov 2 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet premieres in Leningrad |
Nov 2 |
George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of NY Yankees |
Nov 2 |
Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
Nov 2 |
Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222 |
Nov 2 |
Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago. |
Nov 3 |
Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs |
Nov 3 |
Ivory Coast adopts constitution |
Nov 3 |
Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award |
Nov 4 |
"Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe |
Nov 7 |
KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting |
Nov 8 |
JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president |
Nov 11 |
Largest NY Knick 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-18,499 |
Nov 12 |
Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails |
Nov 12 |
Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude |
Nov 13 |
Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude, Spain) |
Nov 14 |
2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech) |
Nov 14 |
Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo |
Nov 14 |
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms |
Nov 14 |
Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1 |
Nov 14 |
Riot due to school integration in New Orleans |
Nov 15 |
Elgin Baylor of NBA LA Lakers scores 71 points vs NY Knicks |
Nov 15 |
USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched |
Nov 16 |
NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP |
Nov 17 |
New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada |
Nov 18 |
Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels |
Nov 18 |
Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration |
Nov 19 |
Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team |
Nov 21 |
Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down |
Nov 22 |
French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons |
Nov 23 |
Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 23 |
Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine St |
Nov 23 |
Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched |
Nov 24 |
Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record) |
Nov 25 |
"Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio |
Nov 25 |
First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland, Wa |
Nov 25 |
CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone & 2nd Mrs Burton) & cancels 4 other series |
Nov 25 |
Three of the four Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, are assassinated. |
Nov 26 |
48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6 |
Nov 26 |
Minneapolis-St Paul baseball club takes the name Twins |
Nov 27 |
CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel" |
Nov 27 |
Dr Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast |
Nov 27 |
Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points |
Nov 27 |
Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo |
Nov 27 |
Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38 |
Nov 28 |
CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes |
Nov 28 |
Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day) |
Nov 29 |
26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB) |
Nov 30 |
French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons |
Nov 30 |
Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC |
Dec 1 |
Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo |
Dec 1 |
Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusation of attempted arson. |
Dec 3 |
"Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances |
Dec 3 |
Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot" premieres in NYC |
Dec 5 |
Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium |
Dec 6 |
AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels |
Dec 7 |
Ivory Coast claims independence from France |
Dec 8 |
Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium |
Dec 9 |
1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV |
Dec 10 |
Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating). |
Dec 11 |
Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die |
Dec 11 |
Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC |
Dec 11 |
Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run |
Dec 13 |
Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals) |
Dec 13 |
Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane |
Dec 14 |
Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie |
Dec 14 |
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms |
Dec 14 |
Washington Senators joins American League |
Dec 16 |
"Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances |
Dec 16 |
TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134 |
Dec 17 |
"La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 perfs |
Dec 17 |
"Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances |
Dec 17 |
Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres |
Dec 18 |
General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid |
Dec 19 |
Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die) |
Dec 19 |
Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding) |
Dec 19 |
Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight |
Dec 20 |
Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR |
Dec 20 |
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed. |
Dec 23 |
De Quay's Dutch government falls |
Dec 23 |
King Saudi of Saudi Arabia takes power |
Dec 24 |
Dutch bishops question papacy values |
Dec 26 |
"Do Re Mi" opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances |
Dec 26 |
Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in NYC |
Dec 26 |
Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game |
Dec 27 |
France performs nuclear test |
Dec 28 |
49th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Sydney (4-1) |
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