October 1960 calendar

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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in October 1960.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Pope John XXIII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on October 1960: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of October 1960?

Events

01 Oct 1960 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
02 Oct 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
03 Oct 1960 Janio Quadros elected President of Brazil
04 Oct 1960 Courier 1B launched; first active repeater satellite in orbit.
05 Oct 1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
07 Oct 1960 Route 66 premieres
08 Oct 1960 Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer (World Series #57).
09 Oct 1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass
10 Oct 1960 Laughs & Other Events opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 performances
11 Oct 1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan
12 Oct 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly session.
13 Oct 1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
14 Oct 1960 Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
15 Oct 1960 Laughs & Other Events closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances
16 Oct 1960 NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league
17 Oct 1960 Tenderloin opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 216 performances
18 Oct 1960 In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
19 Oct 1960 KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
20 Oct 1960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as New York Yankees manager.
21 Oct 1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
22 Oct 1960 Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
24 Oct 1960 Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
25 Oct 1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
26 Oct 1960 AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington DC for 1961
27 Oct 1960 AL admits LA and Washington to the league
29 Oct 1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16.
30 Oct 1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
01 Oct 1960 Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.