1st » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Also known as "Maharashtra Day".
1st » Cold War: 1960 U-2 incident called U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
3rd » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
6th » More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon known as Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon known as Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
7th » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American Lockheed U-2 named U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
10th » The nuclear submarine USS Triton SSRN-586 6 completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
11th » In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazism named Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
13th » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee called House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free
16th » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
22nd » An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the 1960 Valdivia earthquake e.g Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
24th » Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Puyehue-Cordón Caulle 1960 eruption known as Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
20th » Jay Schellen, American drummer (Hurricane (band) Hurricane, Asia (band) Asia, GPS (band) GPS, Circa (band) Circa, and World Trade (band) World Trade)