April 1960 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes
• 02 Apr 1960 Cuba buys oil from USSR
• 04 Apr 1960 32nd Academy Awards - Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston, and Simone Signoret win.
• 08 Apr 1960 Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties.
• 09 Apr 1960 South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle.
• 10 Apr 1960 US Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill.
• 11 Apr 1960 First weather satellite launched (Tiros 1).
• 12 Apr 1960 Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for Glass
• 13 Apr 1960 Transit 1B, first navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit.
• 14 Apr 1960 Bye Bye Birdie opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
• 15 Apr 1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw University.
• 16 Apr 1960 The gunman David Pratt shoots South African Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.
• 17 Apr 1960 American Samoa sets up a constitutional government.
• 19 Apr 1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54.
• 20 Apr 1960 From A to Z opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
• 21 Apr 1960 Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i Faith in Washington, D.C.
• 24 Apr 1960 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker and Fiorello! win.
• 25 Apr 1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed
• 26 Apr 1960 Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
• 27 Apr 1960 Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm
• 28 Apr 1960 Christine opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 12 performances

Famous Birthday

• Vikram (actor)
• Marie-Ange Nardi

  French TV host on the private channel TF1, she began as a national announcer.

• Prince Philippe Duke of Brabant
• Valerie Bertinelli

  TV Actress.

• John Schneider

  American actor.

• Jeremy Clarkson

  British journalist.

• Hugo Weaving

  Nigerian-born English-Australian actor.

• Brad Garrett

  American actor, became popular on his role as Ray Romano's brother in "Everybody Loves Raymond.

• Alexandre Debanne

  French TV host.

• Rudi Völler

  German soccer/football coach and former player.

• Rafael Benítez

  Spanish footballer and manager.

• Walter Zenga

  Italian soccer-football player with the Italian national team.

• Yvan Colonna

  French murderer, a Corsican nationalist convicted of assassinating the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac on 6 February 1998 at 9:05 pm in...

• David Miscavige

  American religious leader.

• Nicoletta Braschi

  Italian actress, the star of "La Vita E Bella," (Life is Beautiful), directed by her husband, Roberto Benigni and nominated as Best Foreign...

• Tex (humorist)
• Elena Kagan

  American lawyer and jurist.

• Frieda Hughes

  British-Australian poet whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and London Magazine.

• Laura Marconi

  Italian model who won many beauty contests and did a small amount of professional modeling.

• Craig Sheffer

  Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Eddie Cochran

  American musician, a guitarist and vocalist with good looks to boot.

• Emory Johnson

  Director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66.

• Amanullah

  Emir / King of Afhanistan (1919-28), dies at 67.

• Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn

  Composer, dies at 92.

• Hope Emerson

  Actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62.

• Piet[er O] Bakker

  Dutch journalist/writer (Ciske), dies at age 62.

• Anton Pannekoek

  Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at age 87.

• Cornelis Jan Bakkerr

  Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies.

• Alma Kruger

  Actor (Made For Each Other), dies at 88.

• Wander J de Haas

  Dutch physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at age 82.

• Anton Pancake

  astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at age 87.

• Henri Guisan

  General of the Swiss Army during World War II (Born 1874).

• Toyohiko Kagawa

  Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at age 71.

• Arthur Benjamin

  Australian composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at age 66.

• Max von Laue

  German physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960).

• John P "John" Musch

  actor/founder (JM), dies at age 84.

• Archibald McIndoe

  Plastic surgeon.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
2. Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
3. Bobby Rydell - Wild One
4. Paul Anka - Puppy Love
5. The Brothers Four - Greenfields

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's A Dustman
2. The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
3. Anthony Newley - Do You Mind?
4. Adam Faith - Someone Else's Baby
5. Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Fall In Love With You