February 1960 calendar

February 1960
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 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 February 1960: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of February 1960?

Events

01 Feb 1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
02 Feb 1960 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss.
03 Feb 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the ''a wind of change'' of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
04 Feb 1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
05 Feb 1960 The first CERN particle accelerator becomes operational in Geneva, Switzerland.
07 Feb 1960 Old handwriting found at Qumran, near the Dead Sea.
08 Feb 1960 US Congress opens hearings looking into payola.
09 Feb 1960 AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no-tampering pact.
10 Feb 1960 Unsinkable Molly Brown closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances
11 Feb 1960 Jack Paar walks off his TV show.
12 Feb 1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
13 Feb 1960 Beg, Borrow or Steal opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
14 Feb 1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
16 Feb 1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton sets off on underwater round-world trip.
18 Feb 1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colorado
19 Feb 1960 Protest strike in Poznan, Poland.
21 Feb 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open.
24 Feb 1960 US beats Germany in Olympics hockey finals round, 9-1.
26 Feb 1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia.
27 Feb 1960 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal.
28 Feb 1960 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colorado
29 Feb 1960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthday

Tony Robbins
Self-Help Author.
Richard Ramirez
James Spader
American actor who landed his first role in "Team Mates," 1978 and spent the 1980s being cast endlessly as the quintessential yuppie.
Stéphane Le Foll
French politician for the Socialist Party.
Prince Andrew Duke of York
Greta Scacchi
Italian-British actress, the daughter of an English dancer and an Italian painter.
Khaled (musician)
Joachim Löw
Coach of the German national soccer/football team since 2006, former player.
Meg Tilly
American actress, nominated for an Oscar for her compelling performance in "Agnes of God" (1985).
Dorothy Stratten
Canadian model, Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 1980 and the star of three movies.
Claudio Panatta
Italian tennis champ on the National team, the brother of Adriano Panatta who is also a tennis champ.
Holly Johnson
British pop singer, the outrageous lead singer with "Frankie Goes to Hollywood," the group that had international success with the hit songs...
Holly Johnson
British pop singer, the outrageous lead singer with "Frankie Goes to Hollywood," the group that had international success with the hit songs...
Guy Hascoët
French politician and a member of The Greens-Europe Écologie.
Leslie Ash
English actress.
Laurent Petitguillaume
French radio and television host.
Thomas Schaefer
Crown Prince Naruhito
Lorenzo Saba
Italian karate champion in Europe who went into the healing arts, visiting the U.S.
Steve Bronski
rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy").
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Famous Deaths

Adriano Olivetti
Italian industrialist and member of the Italian Parliament.
Fred Buscaglione
Italian popular singer who founded a personality he called "The Gangster" in the 50s.
Jacques Becker
French film director and screenwriter (Born 1906).
Leonard Woolley
Archaeologist.
Hubert Cuypers
Composer / choir conductor (Missa Populi), dies at 86.
Jean Binet
Composer, dies at 66.
F S Flint
British translator / Poet (imagist movement), dies at 74.
Jonathan Hale
Actor (Blondie), shoots himself at 68.
Delmar G Roos
designer of the jeep, dies at age 79.
Johannes G Geelkerken
Dutch reformed vicar, dies at age 80.
Igor V Kurtshatov
Russian nuclear physicist, dies at age 57.
Everhardus J van Romondt
Dutch Antillean minister, dies at age 51.
Aleksandar Belic
Swedish linguist, dies at age 83.
Jeno Huszka
Composer, dies at 84.
Giles Gilbert Scott
British architect (Born 1880).
Erno Dohnanyi
Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (Born 1877).
Paul-Emile Borduas
Canadian painter (Born 1905).
Jean-Michel Atlan
French painter, of Algerian Jewish descent, moved to Paris in 1930.
Jesse Belvin
American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s, whose success was cut short by his death in a car crash aged 27.
Igor Kurchatov
Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960).
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