3rd » Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper or J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a The Day the Music Died called plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
6th » Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
6th » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
9th » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, Soviet Union or USSR.
11th » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
16th » Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
17th » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
19th » The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
20th » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic fighter aircraft or jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the John George Diefenbaker e.g Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
3rd » Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese DJ, producer, and songwriter (Pizzicato Five)
3rd » Ferzan Özpetek, Turkish-Italian director and screenwriter
3rd » Lol Tolhurst, English drummer (The Cure, Presence (band) named Presence, Easy Cure, and Levinhurst)
3rd » Óscar Iván Zuluaga, Colombian economist and politician, 67th Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (Colombia) called Colombian Minister of Finance