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What Happened In May 1960 In History

Historical Events for May, 1960

  • 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
  • 15th » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
  • 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.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1960

  • 1st » Steve Cauthen, American jockey
  • 2nd » Stephen Daldry, English director and producer
  • 3rd » Geraint Davies (Labour politician) e.g Geraint Davies, English politician
  • 3rd » Kathy Smallwood-Cook, English sprinter
  • 3rd » Amy Steel (actress) or Amy Steel, American actress
  • 4th » Paul Bhattacharjee, English actor (d. 2013)
  • 4th » Andrew Denton, Australian television host and producer
  • 4th » Werner Faymann, Austrian politician, 28th Chancellor of Austria
  • 4th » Martyn Moxon, English cricketer
  • 6th » Lyudmila Andonova, Bulgarian high jumper
  • 6th » Keith Dowding, British political scientist
  • 6th » Roma Downey, Irish-American actress, singer, and producer
  • 6th » John Flansburgh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (They Might Be Giants and Mono Puff)
  • 6th » Aleksei Lotman, Estonian biologist and politician
  • 6th » Anne Parillaud, French actress
  • 6th » Phyllis Treigle, American soprano
  • 7th » Adam Bernstein, American director and screenwriter
  • 7th » Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Iraqi-English surgeon and academic
  • 7th » Almudena Grandes, Spanish author
  • 8th » Franco Baresi, Italian footballer and coach
  • 8th » Eric Brittingham, American bass player (Cinderella (band) known as Cinderella and Naked Beggars)
  • 9th » Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
  • 9th » Jillian Lane, Welsh psychic (d. 2013)
  • 10th » Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, actor, and activist (U2)
  • 10th » Dean Heller, American politician
  • 10th » Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-Slovenian runner
  • 11th » Gildor Roy, Canadian actor
  • 11th » Jürgen Schult, German discus thrower
  • 12th » Paul Arcand, Canadian journalist and producer
  • 12th » Lisa Martin, Australian runner
  • 14th » Anne Clark, English singer-songwriter and poet
  • 14th » Alec Dankworth, English bassist and composer
  • 14th » Ronan Tynan, Irish tenor (The Irish Tenors)
  • 14th » "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American football player and wrestler (d. 2009)
  • 15th » Rob Bowman (director) e.g Rob Bowman, American director and producer
  • 15th » Rhonda Burchmore, Australian actress, singer, and dancer
  • 15th » R. Kuhaneswaran, Sri Lankan politician
  • 15th » Rimas Kurtinaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
  • 15th » Greg Wise, English actor and producer
  • 16th » Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician
  • 16th » S. Shanmuganathan (Sri Lankan politician) named S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1998)
  • 17th » Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter, actor, and producer
  • 17th » Simon Fuller, Cypriot-English talent manager and producer, created the 'Idols (TV series) or Idols series'
  • 18th » Brent Ashton, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 18th » Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager
  • 18th » Yannick Noah, French tennis player and singer
  • 18th » Mal Pope, Welsh musician and composer
  • 19th » Yazz, English singer
  • 20th » John Billingsley, American actor
  • 20th » Tony Goldwyn, American actor and director
  • 20th » Jay Schellen, American drummer (Hurricane (band) Hurricane, Asia (band) Asia, GPS (band) GPS, Circa (band) Circa, and World Trade (band) World Trade)
  • 21st » Mohanlal, Indian actor and producer
  • 21st » Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
  • 21st » Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
  • 21st » Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer
  • 21st » Jeffrey Toobin, American lawyer and author
  • 22nd » Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
  • 23rd » Linden Ashby, American actor and martial artist
  • 24th » Guy Fletcher, English keyboard player, guitarist, and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies)
  • 24th » Doug Jones (actor) called Doug Jones, American actor
  • 24th » Paul McCreesh, English conductor
  • 24th » Kristin Scott Thomas, English-French actress
  • 25th » Amy Klobuchar, American lawyer and politician
  • 25th » Anthea Turner, English journalist and television host
  • 26th » Doug Hutchison, American actor
  • 26th » Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese race car driver
  • 26th » Rob Murphy, American baseball player
  • 26th » Romas Ubartas, Lithuanian discus thrower
  • 27th » Gaston Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
  • 28th » Mark Sanford, American captain and politician, 115th Governor of South Carolina
  • 28th » Mary Portas, English journalist and author
  • 29th » Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic
  • 29th » Neil Crone, Canadian actor
  • 29th » Mike Freer, English politician
  • 29th » Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist
  • 31st » Greg Adams (ice hockey b. 1960) named Greg Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 31st » Chris Elliott, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 31st » Peter Winterbottom, English rugby player

Famous Deaths for May 1960

  • 1st » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
  • 2nd » Caryl Chessman, American criminal (b. 1921)
  • 8th » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
  • 10th » Yury Olesha, Russian author (b. 1899)
  • 11th » John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
  • 14th » Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano (b. 1887)
  • 17th » Jules Supervielle, Uruguayan-French poet and author (b. 1884)
  • 23rd » Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870)
  • 24th » Avraham Arnon, Belarusian-Israeli educator (b. 1887)
  • 27th » James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
  • 30th » Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and author, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
  • 31st » Willem Elsschot, Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)
  • 31st » Walther Funk, German economist, journalist, and politician (b. 1890)

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