December 1960 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
• 03 Dec 1960 Camelot opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
• 04 Dec 1960 The admission of Mauritania to the United Nations vetoed by the Soviet Union for inscrutable reasons.
• 05 Dec 1960 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium.
• 06 Dec 1960 AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
• 07 Dec 1960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
• 08 Dec 1960 Expansion Los Angeles Angels sign a four-year lease to use Dodger Stadium.
• 09 Dec 1960 1st broadcast of Coronation Street on British ITV
• 11 Dec 1960 Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die.
• 12 Dec 1960 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds a lower Federal Court ruling that the State of Louisiana's laws on racial segregation laws are unconstitutional, and overturns them.
• 13 Dec 1960 Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane.
• 14 Dec 1960 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms.
• 15 Dec 1960 Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
• 16 Dec 1960 Wildcat opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
• 17 Dec 1960 La Plume de Ma Tante closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 performances
• 18 Dec 1960 General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid.
• 19 Dec 1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction in Brooklyn, New York (50 die).
• 20 Dec 1960 National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
• 23 Dec 1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power.
• 24 Dec 1960 Dutch bishops question papacy values.
• 26 Dec 1960 Do Re Mi opens at St. James Theater NYC for 400 performances
• 27 Dec 1960 France sets off its third A-bomb test at its nuclear weapons testing range near Reggane, Algeria.
• 31 Dec 1960 The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.

Famous Birthday

• Julianne Moore

  American actress with flowing auburn hair and a Pre-Raphaelite face, highly acclaimed for her ability to inhabit her character, the kind of...

• Jean-Michel Basquiat

  American painter and graffiti artist (Born 1960).

• Daryl Hannah

  American actress with a lanky 5'10.

• Kenneth Branagh

  British actor and director who is often compared with Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier as a towering talent.

• Chad McQueen

  American noted family, the son of actor Steve McQueen and dancer Neile Adams.

• Carol Alt

  American model and actress.

• Stéphane Peyron

  French windsurfer, producer, and documentary maker.

• Maryam d'Abo

  English actress and producer.

• Mother Meera
• Carol Vorderman

  British television presenter.

• Kim Farnell

  British-American astrologer who earned her diploma at the Astrological Faculty of London in 1990, taking over the class that she had...

• Abdellatif Kechiche
• John Allen Muhammad

  American convicted spree killer (Born 1960).

• Katoucha Niane
• Victoria Paige Meyerink

  American actress and producer.

• Zane William Smith
• Rick Savage

  Bassist.

• James Comey

  Public Servant.

• Justus von Dohnányi

  German actor director and screenwriter.

• Steve Nallon
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Famous Deaths

• Gregory Ratoff

  Actor (Skyscraper Souls), dies of Leukemia at 63.

• Hermann Stephani

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Anna Luther

  Silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), dies at 63.

• Germaine Loosveldt

  Flemish actress (Trees die Upright), dies at 69.

• Eden Phillpotts

  British writer (Born 1862).

• Ion Vasilescu

  Composer, dies at 57.

• Ninian Comper

  Sir John Ninian Comper was a Scottish-born architect.

• Tetsuro Watsuji

  Japanese historian and philosopher (d. 1960).

• Dora Marsden

  English author and activist (d. 1960).

• Philippe Panneton

  Canadian physician academic and diplomat (d. 1960).

• Eduard Ludwig

  German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at age 54.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome To-Night?
2. Floyd Cramer - Last Date
3. Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Wonderland By Night
4. Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay
5. Johnny Tillotson - Poetry In Motion

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never
2. Johnny Tillotson - Poetry In Motion
3. Emile Ford & The Checkmates - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?
4. The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
5. Adam Faith - What Do You Want?