May 1960 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1960 Russia shoots down American pilot Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.
• 02 May 1960 Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
• 03 May 1960 The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
• 04 May 1960 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
• 06 May 1960 English Prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones
• 07 May 1960 Christine closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 12 performances
• 08 May 1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open.
• 09 May 1960 US send U-2 over USSR
• 10 May 1960 John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
• 11 May 1960 French liner France launched
• 12 May 1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
• 13 May 1960 WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
• 14 May 1960 At the Drop of a Hat closes at John Golden NYC after 216 performances
• 15 May 1960 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 16 May 1960 Big four summit in Paris, France collapses as USSR levels spy charges against USA.
• 17 May 1960 First atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park, California, USA.
• 18 May 1960 Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn
• 19 May 1960 DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
• 20 May 1960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
• 21 May 1960 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6.
• 22 May 1960 Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
• 23 May 1960 Got A Girl by The Four Preps hits #24
• 24 May 1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
• 27 May 1960 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Baltimore Oriole Clint Courtney)
• 28 May 1960 Greenwillow closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
• 30 May 1960 Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (its 24th government, composed mostly of so-called quottechnocratsquot)

Famous Birthday

• Bono (U2)
• Yannick Noah

  French tennis player, a pro from 1977 to1990, winning Roland Garros in 1984, and then pop singer.

• Jeffrey Dahmer

  American serial killer.

• Mohanlal

  Indian actor and producer.

• Kristin Scott Thomas

  English actress.

• Anne Parillaud

  French actress, who has appeared in 30 films since 1977.

• Roma Downey

  Northern Irish actress.

• Tony Goldwyn

  TV Actor.

• Merlene Ottey

  Jamaican / Italian running star (Olympics).

• Hervé Gaymard
• Imhotep (hip-hop)
• Kiev (Ukraine)
• Franco Baresi

  Italian soccer player, he was on AC Milan and made his international debut in 1982.

• Jean-Guy Talamoni

  French lawyer and politician claiming Corsican nationality.

• Anthea Turner

  British entertainer, admired for her fresh and infectious sunny nature that hides a steely determination and an obsession with perfection.

• Thierry Frémaux
• Jorge Quiroga Ramirez
• Charles Schneider
• Doug Jones

  American actor.

• Raoul Meyer

  Italian race car driver and a husband of Brigitte Nielsen.

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Famous Deaths

• Caryl Chessman

  American homicide; called the "Red Light Bandit" as he would flash a red light on his car to stop people, pretending to be a cop, rape the...

• Edward Brophy

  Actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy), dies at 65.

• Hugo Alfven

  Swedish Composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88.

• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs

  Composer, dies at 70.

• Willem Elsschot [Alfons de Ridder]

  Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78.

• Juri Olescha

  Writer, dies at 61.

• George Zucco

  Actor (Fog Island, Black Raven, Desire Me), dies at 74.

• J H C Whitehead

  British mathematician (Born 1904).

• Sulho Ranta

  Composer, dies at 58.

• James Montgomery Flagg

  American illustrator (Born 1877).

• John D Rockefeller Jr

  philanthropist, dies at age 86.

• Avraham Arnon

  Israeli educator and a recipient of the Israel Prize (Born 1887).

• Yury Olesha

  Russian author and playwright (d. 1960).

• Walther Funk

  German economist and politician Reich Minister of Economics (d. 1960).

• Georges Claude

  French chemist and engineer invented Neon lighting (d. 1960).

• Boris Pasternak

  Russian writer, a novelist and poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 and rejected the award because of pressure from his...

• John D Rockefeller

  Jr.

• Paul Abraham

  Hungarian Composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
2. The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
3. The Brothers Four - Greenfields
4. Johnny Horton - Sink The Bismarck
5. Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown
2. Adam Faith - Someone Else's Baby
3. Jimmy Jones - Handy Man
4. Anthony Newley - Do You Mind?
5. Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothin's