March 1960 calendar

Events

• 03 Mar 1960 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5)
• 04 Mar 1960 Lucille Ball files for divorce from Desi Arnaz.
• 05 Mar 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
• 07 Mar 1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
• 08 Mar 1960 Greenwillow opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
• 09 Mar 1960 Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• 10 Mar 1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing.
• 11 Mar 1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus.
• 13 Mar 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
• 14 Mar 1960 Fourteen die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California, USA.
• 15 Mar 1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated.
• 17 Mar 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
• 19 Mar 1960 Redhead closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 455 performances
• 21 Mar 1960 Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• 22 Mar 1960 AL Schawlow and C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
• 23 Mar 1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
• 24 Mar 1960 US appeals court rules D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterly's Lover not obscene.
• 25 Mar 1960 Ford Frick voids Cleveland Indians-Boston Red Sox deal as Sam White retires.
• 26 Mar 1960 Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
• 27 Mar 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open.
• 28 Mar 1960 Pope John raises the first Japanese, first African, and first Filipino cardinals.
• 29 Mar 1960 ''Tom Pillibi'' by Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for France.

Famous Birthday

• Ayrton Senna

  Brazilian Formula One race car driver and three-time world champion.

• Jennifer Grey

  American actress.

• Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

  French author and dramatist.

• Adam Clayton

  Bassist.

• Adam Clayton

  Musician.

• Ivan Lendl

  Czech-born tennis champion on the professional circuit beginning in 1979.

• Nena

  German popular singer who was a huge success for a brief time.

• Annabella Sciorra
• Brenda Strong

  American actress.

• Kelly LeBrock

  Actress.

• Jo Nesbø

  Norwegian singer-songwriter and skier (Di Derre).

• Christophe Gans

  French film director, writer, and producer who specializes in horror, fantasy movies and video game adaptations.

• Aécio Neves

  Aécio Neves da Cunha is a Brazilian economist, politician and president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).

• Debra Marshall

  American professional wrestler and manager.

• Thierry Vigneron

  French athlete (vault).

• Steve Norman

  English rock musician who plays the saxophone and has had several hits with the group "Spandau Ballet.

• Fiorella Pierobon

  Italian TV announcer for Channel 5..

• Attila Kaszás
• David Greenlee
• Benoît Duteurtre

  French novelist, essayist, musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music.

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Famous Deaths

• Sammy White

  Actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65.

• Stanis?aw Taczak

  Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (Born 1874).

• Jack Beattie

  Northern Irish politician (Born 1886).

• Franklin Pierce Adams

  American newspaper columnist (Born 1881).

• Paul Joostens

  Flemish painter, dies at age 70.

• Fritz Klimsch

  German sculptor/painter, dies at age 90.

• Herbert O'Conor

  51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (Born 1896).

• Yosef Zvi HaLevy

  Israeli rabbi and judge (Born 1874).

• Jose Antonio Aguirre

  Basque politician (Born 1904).

• Said Nursi

  Islamic thinker from Turkey (Born 1878).

• Leonard Warren

  American opera singer.

• Ian Keith

  Actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61.

• Ian Whyte

  Welsh basketball player and actor.

• Roy Chapman Andrews

  American explorer and adventurer (Born 1884).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
2. Jimmy Jones - Handy Man
3. Jim Reeves - He'll Have To Go
4. Bobby Rydell - Wild One
5. Mark Dinning - Teen Angel

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Johnny Preston - Running Bear
2. Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's A Dustman
3. Adam Faith - Poor Me
4. Anthony Newley - Do You Mind?
5. Anthony Newley - Why