July 1960 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1960 British Somaliland becomes Somalia
• 02 Jul 1960 Once Upon a Mattress closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances
• 03 Jul 1960 Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
• 04 Jul 1960 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
• 05 Jul 1960 Mongolia adopts constitution
• 06 Jul 1960 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207-mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City.
• 07 Jul 1960 Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
• 08 Jul 1960 Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
• 10 Jul 1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo
• 11 Jul 1960 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City
• 12 Jul 1960 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
• 13 Jul 1960 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
• 14 Jul 1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
• 16 Jul 1960 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch-hit home runs with a runner on.
• 18 Jul 1960 1st UN troops reach Congo
• 19 Jul 1960 San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal debuts, with a one hitter against Philadelphia Phillies.
• 20 Jul 1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female Premier of Ceylon
• 21 Jul 1960 Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
• 22 Jul 1960 Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
• 24 Jul 1960 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone Country Club - Akron
• 25 Jul 1960 US Republican Convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
• 26 Jul 1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms
• 27 Jul 1960 VP Nixon nominated for President at Republican Convention in Chicago
• 28 Jul 1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
• 31 Jul 1960 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast

Famous Birthday

• Vincent Peillon

  French politician who was Minister for Education in the French Government.

• Vince Clarke

  English singer-songwriter keyboard player and producer (Depeche Mode Yazoo The Assembly Erasure and VCMG).

• Christine Villemin

  French homicide suspect, the mother of four-year-old Gregory, whose bound body was found in the river Vologne on 10/16/1984.

• Ariel Castro
• Didier Van Cauwelaert

  French writer and radio presenter, a novelist whose work includes "Les Vacances du Fantôme," "Cheyenne," and "Poisson D’amour.

• Jane Lynch

  American actress, comedian and singer.

• Catherine Destivelle

  French rock climber and mountaineer, who in 1992 became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face.

• Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

  Business Executive.

• Richard Linklater

  American director and screenwriter.

• Corynne Charby

  French model, actress and singer.

• Angélique Kidjo

  Beninese singer-songwriter and activist.

• Willie Aames

  American actor director and screenwriter.

• Perrine Pelen

  French alpine skier.

• Yûko Asano
• Atom Egoyan

  Canadian stage director and film director.

• Roland Ratzenberger

  Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31.

• Catherine Vautrin

  French politician, a member of the National Assembly of France.

• Michèle Finck
• Leila Kenzle
• Jo Durie

  British leading tennis player of the late 1980s, one of the four greatest women tennis players in the world by January 1984, when she...

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Famous Deaths

• Alfred Henry Ackley

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Edward Burlingame Hill

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Anna Blaman

  Dutch writer (Life & Death), dies at 55.

• Lawrence Mervil Tibbett

  Baritone, dies after surgery at 63.

• Albrecht von Kesselring

  German Field Marshal (Italy), dies at 74.

• John Phillips Marquand

  Novelist, dies at 66.

• Carl Deis

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Karl Hasse

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Joy Gresham

  American writer (Born 1915).

• John P Marquand

  American novelist (Born 1893).

• Aneurin Bevan

  Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee government from 1945 to 1951.

• Albert Kesselring

  German pilot and military Commander in Chief of German troops in Italy, one of the most prominent German air and field commanders in World...

• Set Persson

  Swedish Communist politician (Born 1897).

• Maud Menten

  Canadian physician and biochemist (d. 1960).

• Cedric Gibbons

  Irish-American art director and production designer (d. 1960).

• Richard Simon

  cofounder of publisher Simon and Shuster, dies.

• Hans Albers

  German actor (Blue Angel), dies at 68.

• Lawrence Tibbett

  American operatic baritone singer, making his debut in 1923 at the Hollywood Bowl followed by the Met.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Connie Francis - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
2. Hollywood Argyles - Alley-Oop
3. Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry
4. The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
5. Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Jimmy Jones - Good Timin'
2. Cliff Richard - Please Don't Tease
3. Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin' All Over
4. Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven
5. The Shadows - Apache