October 1960 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1960 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
• 02 Oct 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
• 03 Oct 1960 Janio Quadros elected President of Brazil
• 04 Oct 1960 Courier 1B launched; first active repeater satellite in orbit.
• 05 Oct 1960 British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
• 07 Oct 1960 Route 66 premieres
• 08 Oct 1960 Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer (World Series #57).
• 09 Oct 1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass
• 10 Oct 1960 Laughs & Other Events opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 performances
• 11 Oct 1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan
• 12 Oct 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly session.
• 13 Oct 1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
• 14 Oct 1960 Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
• 15 Oct 1960 Laughs & Other Events closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances
• 16 Oct 1960 NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league
• 17 Oct 1960 Tenderloin opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 216 performances
• 18 Oct 1960 In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
• 19 Oct 1960 KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
• 20 Oct 1960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as New York Yankees manager.
• 21 Oct 1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
• 22 Oct 1960 Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
• 24 Oct 1960 Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
• 25 Oct 1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
• 26 Oct 1960 AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington DC for 1961
• 27 Oct 1960 AL admits LA and Washington to the league
• 29 Oct 1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16.
• 30 Oct 1960 Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Famous Birthday

• Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Belgian-American actor who did stints in European commercials and low-budget French films before moving to Hollywood in 1981.

• Diego Maradona

  Argentine soccer champion who scored winning goal in the final 1986 World Cup Game, when Argentina beat Mexico.

• Rob Marshall

  American director producer and choreographer.

• Lolita Morena
• Hiroyuki Sanada

  Japanese actor.

• François Pérusse

  Canadian singer-songwriter and comedian.

• Viktor Lazlo

  French-Belgian singer of Grenadian and Martiniquan descent.

• Erin Moran

  American actress.

• Reza Pahlavi

  Iranian royalty, the first son of Farah Diba and the Shah of Iran and heir to the throne of the peacock kingdom.

• Denis Olivennes

  French entrepreneur, son of poet Armand Olivennes and nephew of famous psychiatrist Claude Olievenstein.

• Finola Hughes

  English actress dancer and director.

• Yves Leterme
• Daniel Baldwin

  American actor director and producer.

• Marc Thiercelin
• Guy Henry (actor)
• Philippe Briand

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

• Arnaud Desplechin

  French director cinematographer and screenwriter.

• Luc Girerd
• Bruno Rossetti

  French skeet shooter, winner of the bronze medal at Barcelona 1992.

• Richard Jobson

  Scottish singer-songwriter and TV host.

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Famous Deaths

• George Wallace

  American politician who was the Democratic Governor of Alabama, beginning in 1963, for three terms.

• Abram F Joffe

  Russian physicist (crystal).

• Edgar Scauflaire

  Belgian, Painter / decorator, dies at 67.

• Alfred Hill

  Composer, dies at 89.

• H L Davis

  US writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64.

• Clara Kimball Young

  Actress (Return of Chandu), dies of a stroke at 70.

• Jose Padilla

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Maude Eburne

  Actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84.

• Douglas Spencer

  Actor (The Thing), dies at 50.

• Abram Ioffe

  Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960).

• Harry Ferguson

  Irish-English engineer invented the tractor (d. 1960).

• Inejiro Asanuma

  Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old.

• Richard Cromwell

  British politician and noted family, the son of Oliver Cromwell.

• Jaroslav Doubrava

  Composer, dies at 51.

• Henny Porten

  German actress, one of her country's first silent film superstars.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Connie Francis - My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
2. Larry Verne - Mr. Custer
3. The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me
4. Brenda Lee - I Want To Be Wanted (Per Tutta La Vita)
5. Chubby Checker - The Twist

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Ricky Valance - Tell Laura I Love Her
2. Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
3. Shirley Bassey - As Long As He Needs Me
4. Cliff Richard - Nine Times Out Of Ten
5. Adam Faith - How About That