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

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of March 1960?


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.
  • 05 Mar 1960 Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
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Music charts

Which were the top hits in March 1960?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - The Theme From A Summer Place
  2. - Handy Man
  3. - He'll Have To Go
  4. - Wild One
  5. - Teen Angel

Top #5 songs in the UK

  1. - Running Bear
  2. - My Old Man's A Dustman
  3. - Poor Me
  4. - Do You Mind?
  5. - Why

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?

Books

Which were the most popular books released in March 1960?

Where The Boys Are by Glendon Swarthout

Where The Boys Are

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Glendon Swarthout and a group of English honors students from Michigan State University took off one snowy spring. They motored south from winter's chill to the beaches.

Ourselves To Know by John O'Hara

Ourselves To Know

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"HAVE YOU EVER HAAD AN AFFAIR w/ANOTHER MAN?" ROBERT MILLHOUSER QUESTIONED HIS WIFE. "YES, I HAVE," SHE TOLD ROBERT MILLHOUSER BRUTALLY...

Two Weeks In Another Town by Irwin Shaw

Two Weeks In Another Town

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John Andrus, a struggling actor, gets his last chance to make it big with a memorable Roman holiday. John Andrus was severely injured in World War II. Andrus is marred by a scar on his face and burdened with a …

Mrs. 'Arris Goes To New York by Paul Gallico

Mrs. 'Arris Goes To New York

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This 2007 reprint is of the famed series McCalls published in 1959/1960. Hardcover in small format with dust jacket.

The Uncertain Trumpet by General Maxwell D. Taylor

The Uncertain Trumpet

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203 pages - 8 X 6 inches – "General Taylor Contends" - That the doctrine of massive reprisal has endangered our national security and that our military planning are frozen to