1st » While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
3rd » The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swam
4th » At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes Eastern chimpanzee called chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
8th » John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the United States presidential election, 1960 e.g closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.
9th » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
11th » A military coup against President of Vietnam named President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt known as is crushed.
25th » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassination known as assassinated.