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What Happened In January 1960 In History

Historical Events for January, 1960

  • 1st » Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
  • 6th » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami called Miami, Florida.
  • 6th » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
  • 7th » The UGM-27 Polaris called Polaris missile is test launched.
  • 9th » President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
  • 19th » Japan and the United States sign the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan named US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
  • 20th » Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
  • 21st » Little Joe 1B, a Project Mercury Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Monkeys in space Miss Sam, a female Rhesus Macaque rhesus monkey on board.
  • 23rd » The bathyscaphe Bathyscaphe Trieste USS 'Trieste' breaks a depth record by descending to Convert 10911 m ft in the Pacific Ocean.
  • 24th » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
  • 25th » The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
  • 26th » Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
  • 28th » The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas Cowboys known as Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minnesota Vikings called Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
  • 30th » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1960

  • 1st » Rayo de Jalisco, Jr., Mexican wrestler
  • 1st » Michael Seibert (figure skater) or Michael Seibert, American ice dancer
  • 1st » Toomas Vitsut, Estonian businessman and politician
  • 1st » Danny Wilson (footballer, born 1960) or Danny Wilson, English footballer and manager
  • 2nd » Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
  • 2nd » Naoki Urasawa, Japanese illustrator
  • 3rd » Russell Spence, English race car driver
  • 4th » Art Paul Schlosser, American singer-songwriter
  • 4th » Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter and producer (R.E.M. and Automatic Baby)
  • 4th » April Winchell, American actress
  • 5th » Steve Jones (aviator) e.g Steve Jones, English pilot
  • 5th » Otar Korghalidze, Georgian footballer and manager
  • 5th » Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer
  • 5th » Phil Thornalley, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Cure and Johnny Hates Jazz)
  • 6th » Paul Azinger, American golfer
  • 6th » Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
  • 6th » Nigella Lawson, English chef and author
  • 6th » Howie Long, American football player and actor
  • 6th » Andrea Thompson, American actress
  • 7th » David Marciano, American actor
  • 7th » Loretta Sanchez, American politician
  • 8th » Dave Weckl, American drummer
  • 10th » Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director
  • 10th » Brian Cowen, Irish politician, 12th Taoiseach
  • 10th » John Mann (British politician) called John Mann, English politician
  • 10th » Benoît Pelletier, Canadian lawyer and politician
  • 10th » Samira Said, Moroccan singer-songwriter
  • 12th » Theologis Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
  • 12th » Oliver Platt, American actor
  • 12th » Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player
  • 13th » Little Oral Annie, American porn actress
  • 13th » Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
  • 13th » Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach
  • 14th » Nick Smith (British politician) e.g Nick Smith, Welsh politician
  • 15th » Kelly Asbury, American actor and director
  • 15th » Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer
  • 17th » John Crawford (musician) e.g John Crawford, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Berlin (band) or Berlin)
  • 17th » Chili Davis, Jamaican-American baseball player
  • 17th » Tracey Moore, Canadian voice actress and singer
  • 17th » Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor
  • 20th » Apa Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer
  • 20th » Scott Thunes, American bass player (Fear (band) called Fear)
  • 20th » Will Wright (game designer) called Will Wright, American video game designer, co-founded Maxis
  • 21st » Toxey Haas, American businessman, founded Haas Outdoors, Inc.
  • 22nd » Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (INXS and Max Q (Australian band) called Max Q) (d. 1997)
  • 23rd » Patrick de Gayardon, French sky diver (d. 1998)
  • 23rd » Leilani Kai, American wrestler
  • 23rd » Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 24th » Rick Leventhal, American journalist
  • 24th » Mária Bajzek Lukács, Hungarian author and educator
  • 26th » Road Warrior Animal, American wrestler
  • 26th » Charlie Gillingham, American pianist and accordion player (Counting Crows)
  • 27th » Bernd Stieler, German footballer
  • 28th » Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist, politician and environmentalist
  • 28th » Robert von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American historian and academic
  • 29th » Matthew Ashford, American actor
  • 29th » Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
  • 29th » Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
  • 29th » Greg Louganis, American diver and author
  • 29th » Steve Sax, American baseball player
  • 29th » J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-English singer-songwriter and producer (Wiseblood (band) Wiseblood, The Immaculate Consumptive, Coil (band) Coil, and Foetus (band) Foetus)
  • 30th » Gerald Finley, Canadian opera singer
  • 30th » Alex Titomirov, Russian-American businessman, co-founded InforMax Inc
  • 31st » Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist
  • 31st » Grant Morrison, Scottish author and screenwriter
  • 31st » Željko Šturanović, Montenegrian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (d. 2014)

Famous Deaths for January 1960

  • 1st » Margaret Sullavan, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • 2nd » Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
  • 2nd » Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
  • 4th » Albert Camus, Algerian-French philosopher, Nobel Prize in Literature known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
  • 7th » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (b. 1878)
  • 9th » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author (b. 1880)
  • 10th » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
  • 12th » Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (b. 1899)
  • 16th » Arthur Darby, English rugby player (b. 1876)
  • 17th » Andrew Kennaway Henderson, New Zealand illustrator (b. 1879)
  • 24th » Arthur Murray Chisholm, American author (b. 1872)
  • 24th » Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
  • 25th » Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
  • 28th » Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)

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