4th » The French freighter 'La Coubre explosion called La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
5th » Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his Guerrillero Heroico iconic photograph of Marxism Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
9th » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt (medical) e.g shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
17th » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the United States National Security Council known as National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
21st » Apartheid in South Africa: Sharpeville massacre e.g Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
22nd » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
Famous Birthdays on March in 1960
1st » Benedict Allen, English television host and author