1960: On This Year

• 1960 was the year known as the year of Africa.
• Seventeen countries gained their independence from their colonial masters, through armed struggle. A charismatic John F. Kennedy presented to the American people an ambitious domestic agenda, where he sought to oust inequality and injustice. In this year, Elvis Presley released his tenth studio album named Elvis Is Back!
• By 1960, the United States of America was at the height of civil rights freedom marches. Coincidentally the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first artificially produced birth control pill in the world. The pill took six years undergoing clinical tests and approved on May 9.
• Twelve days later on May 21, the first tremor of an earthquake hit the Valdivia city in Chile. The series of earthquakes started with a 7.6 magnitude and followed by an 8.5 magnitude quake. The cause of the earthquakes was the Nazca oceanic plate plunged 50 feet below the South American plate. The effects were massive landslides down the nearby mountains. At twenty minutes past four, a 26-foot wave hit the coast taking with it buildings and other structures as it receded. A few moments later, a 35-foot wave rolled into the shore, and it killed more people than a thousand people. An estimated 5000 died and 2 million people left homeless.
• In a rather bizarre incident, two planes collided over New York City on the snowy morning of December 16. The incident left 134 people dead, both in the airplanes as well as on the ground. When the debris landed, it took 72 hours to put out the multiple fires.
• Unbeknownst to many people, the establishment of the American Football League (AFL) was in 1960 and meant to rival the National Football League (NFL). Finally, the American toy inventor, Randi Altschul was born in 1960.

According to the Chinese Zodiac and Astrology 1960 was the Year of the Rat.

Discover Zodiac Sign Characteristics and Personality Traits of people born under the Rat sign.

The 3 most popular baby names in 1960 were David, Michael and James for boys and Mary, Susan and Linda for girls according to the US Census Bureau historical records.

1960: What were the Top #10 male names given to baby boys that year?

The Top # 10 male names given to baby boys in 1960 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

• David
• Michael
• James
• John
• Robert
• Mark
• William
• Richard
• Thomas
• Steven

1960: What were the Top #10 female names given to baby girls that year?

The Top # 10 female names given to baby girls in 1960 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

• Mary
• Susan
• Linda
• Karen
• Donna
• Lisa
• Patricia
• Debra
• Cynthia
• Deborah

1960: What was the number 1 song in the USA that year?

The number 1 song in the USA in 1960, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was The Theme From A Summer Place by Percy Faith

1960: What was the music chart in the USA that year?

The Music Chart in the USA in 1960 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

1. The Theme From A Summer Place by Percy Faith
2. He'll Have To Go by Jim Reeves
3. The Twist by Chubby Checker
4. I'm Sorry by Brenda Lee
5. It's Now Or Never by Elvis Presley
6. Teen Angel by Mark Dinning
7. Running Bear by Johnny Preston
8. Stuck On You by Elvis Presley
9. My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own by Connie Francis
10. Handy Man by Jimmy Jones

1960: What was the number 1 song in the UK that year?

The number 1 song in the UK in 1960, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was Please Don't Tease by Cliff Richard

1960: What was the music chart in the UK that year?

The Music Chart in the UK in 1960 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

1. Please Don't Tease by Cliff Richard
2. Poor Me by Adam Faith
3. Handy Man by Jimmy Jones
4. Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valance
5. Why by Anthony Newley
6. Do You Mind? by Anthony Newley
7. Mess Of Blues by Elvis Presley
8. Apache by The Shadows
9. Only The Lonely by Roy Orbison
10. As Long As He Needs Me by Shirley Bassey

The world population in 1960 was 3,034,949,748 people according to data by United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. This figure includes both urban and rural populations. The urban population at that time accounted for 34.0% of the total population, which is roughly 1.0 billion individuals.The annual population change in 1960 was an increase of +55.4 million people, representing a percentage increase of +1.86% over the previous year.The average population density in 1960 was 12 persons per square mile (or 20 persons per square kilometer).

Here's what happened in 1960:

• Jan 1, 1960: US census at 179,245,000
• Jan 2, 1960: John F Kennedy announces run for US Presidency
• Jan 4, 1960: European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Jan 5, 1960: Continental League, a proposed third major baseball league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating.
• Jan 6, 1960: National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
• Jan 7, 1960: The Polaris missile is test launched.
• Jan 9, 1960: Building of Aswan dam in Egypt begins.
• Jan 10, 1960: Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz.
• Jan 11, 1960: Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts.
• Jan 12, 1960: Sobers and Worrell complete 399 stand for fourth wicket versus England.
• Jan 14, 1960: US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant
• Jan 17, 1960: NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21.
• Jan 18, 1960: US and Japan sign joint defense treaty
• Jan 19, 1960: Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact
• Jan 20, 1960: Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
• Jan 21, 1960: Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
• Jan 22, 1960: Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
• Jan 23, 1960: Bathosphere Trieste reach bottom of Pacific
• Jan 24, 1960: Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the ''barricades week'', during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
• Jan 25, 1960: In Washington, D.C., the National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
• Jan 26, 1960: High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
• Jan 28, 1960: NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) and Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises.
• Jan 30, 1960: CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft
• Jan 31, 1960: Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress / singer Phyllis Newman in New York City
• Feb 1, 1960: 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
• Feb 2, 1960: Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss.
• Feb 3, 1960: British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the ''a wind of change'' of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
• Feb 4, 1960: BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
• Feb 5, 1960: The first CERN particle accelerator becomes operational in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Feb 7, 1960: Old handwriting found at Qumran, near the Dead Sea.
• Feb 8, 1960: US Congress opens hearings looking into payola.
• Feb 9, 1960: AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no-tampering pact.
• Feb 10, 1960: Unsinkable Molly Brown closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances
• Feb 11, 1960: Jack Paar walks off his TV show.
• Feb 12, 1960: Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
• Feb 13, 1960: Beg, Borrow or Steal opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 5 performances
• Feb 14, 1960: Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
• Feb 16, 1960: US nuclear submarine USS Triton sets off on underwater round-world trip.
• Feb 18, 1960: 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colorado
• Feb 19, 1960: Protest strike in Poznan, Poland.
• Feb 21, 1960: Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open.
• Feb 24, 1960: US beats Germany in Olympics hockey finals round, 9-1.
• Feb 26, 1960: Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia.
• Feb 27, 1960: US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal.
• Feb 28, 1960: 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colorado
• Feb 29, 1960: KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Mar 3, 1960: 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5)
• Mar 4, 1960: Lucille Ball files for divorce from Desi Arnaz.
• Mar 5, 1960: Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
• Mar 7, 1960: Dutch Builders strike for CLA
• Mar 8, 1960: Greenwillow opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
• Mar 9, 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.
• Mar 10, 1960: USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing.
• Mar 11, 1960: Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus.
• Mar 13, 1960: Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship.
• Mar 14, 1960: Fourteen die in a train crash in Bakersfield, California, USA.
• Mar 15, 1960: National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated.
• Mar 17, 1960: Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
• Mar 19, 1960: Redhead closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 455 performances
• Mar 21, 1960: Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• Mar 22, 1960: AL Schawlow and C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
• Mar 23, 1960: Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
• Mar 24, 1960: US appeals court rules D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterly's Lover not obscene.
• Mar 25, 1960: Ford Frick voids Cleveland Indians-Boston Red Sox deal as Sam White retires.
• Mar 26, 1960: Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
• Mar 27, 1960: Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open.
• Mar 28, 1960: Pope John raises the first Japanese, first African, and first Filipino cardinals.
• Mar 29, 1960: ''Tom Pillibi'' by Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for France.
• Apr 1, 1960: 2nd French atom bomb explodes
• Apr 2, 1960: Cuba buys oil from USSR
• Apr 4, 1960: 32nd Academy Awards - Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston, and Simone Signoret win.
• Apr 8, 1960: Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties.
• Apr 9, 1960: South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle.
• Apr 10, 1960: US Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill.
• Apr 11, 1960: First weather satellite launched (Tiros 1).
• Apr 12, 1960: Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for Glass
• Apr 13, 1960: Transit 1B, first navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit.
• Apr 14, 1960: Bye Bye Birdie opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
• Apr 15, 1960: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw University.
• Apr 16, 1960: The gunman David Pratt shoots South African Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.
• Apr 17, 1960: American Samoa sets up a constitutional government.
• Apr 19, 1960: 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54.
• Apr 20, 1960: From A to Z opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
• Apr 21, 1960: Founding of the Orthodox Baha'i Faith in Washington, D.C.
• Apr 24, 1960: 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker and Fiorello! win.
• Apr 25, 1960: 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed
• Apr 26, 1960: Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
• Apr 27, 1960: Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French adm
• Apr 28, 1960: Christine opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 12 performances
• May 1, 1960: Russia shoots down American pilot Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.
• May 2, 1960: Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
• May 3, 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.
• May 4, 1960: 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
• May 6, 1960: English Prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones
• May 7, 1960: Christine closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 12 performances
• May 8, 1960: Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open.
• May 9, 1960: US send U-2 over USSR
• May 10, 1960: John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia
• May 11, 1960: French liner France launched
• May 12, 1960: Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
• May 13, 1960: WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
• May 14, 1960: At the Drop of a Hat closes at John Golden NYC after 216 performances
• May 15, 1960: KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
• May 16, 1960: Big four summit in Paris, France collapses as USSR levels spy charges against USA.
• May 17, 1960: First atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park, California, USA.
• May 18, 1960: Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn
• May 19, 1960: DJ Alan Freed is accused of bribery in radio payola scandal
• May 20, 1960: Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
• May 21, 1960: 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6.
• May 22, 1960: Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM
• May 23, 1960: Got A Girl by The Four Preps hits #24
• May 24, 1960: 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
• May 27, 1960: 1st use of oversized catching mitt (Baltimore Oriole Clint Courtney)
• May 28, 1960: Greenwillow closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 95 performances
• May 30, 1960: Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (its 24th government, composed mostly of so-called quottechnocratsquot)
• Jun 1, 1960: WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Jun 2, 1960: Broadway theaters close
• Jun 5, 1960: George Gobel Show, last airs on CBS-TV
• Jun 6, 1960: Steve Allen Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 7, 1960: U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary.
• Jun 8, 1960: Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
• Jun 9, 1960: ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract
• Jun 11, 1960: 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2
• Jun 12, 1960: KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins
• Jun 13, 1960: Alley-Oop by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59
• Jun 15, 1960: Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
• Jun 16, 1960: Psycho, opens in New York
• Jun 17, 1960: Fire consumes the El Rancho Vegas casino resort, on the Las Vegas Strip.
• Jun 18, 1960: Destry Rides Again closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 472 performances
• Jun 19, 1960: Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
• Jun 20, 1960: 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt
• Jun 21, 1960: Armin Hary runs world record 100m
• Jun 23, 1960: Pat Boone Show, last airs on ABC-TV
• Jun 24, 1960: Joseph Kasavubu is elected as the first President of the independent Congo.
• Jun 25, 1960: Earthquake in NE Belgium
• Jun 26, 1960: Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
• Jun 27, 1960: British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
• Jun 28, 1960: 10.40 (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky
• Jun 29, 1960: Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open
• Jun 30, 1960: US stops sugar import from Cuba
• Jul 1, 1960: British Somaliland becomes Somalia
• Jul 2, 1960: Once Upon a Mattress closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances
• Jul 3, 1960: Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot
• Jul 4, 1960: 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
• Jul 5, 1960: Mongolia adopts constitution
• Jul 6, 1960: Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207-mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City.
• Jul 7, 1960: Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
• Jul 8, 1960: Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
• Jul 10, 1960: Belgium sends troops to Congo
• Jul 11, 1960: 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City
• Jul 12, 1960: Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
• Jul 13, 1960: 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
• Jul 14, 1960: Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
• Jul 16, 1960: George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch-hit home runs with a runner on.
• Jul 18, 1960: 1st UN troops reach Congo
• Jul 19, 1960: San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal debuts, with a one hitter against Philadelphia Phillies.
• Jul 20, 1960: Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female Premier of Ceylon
• Jul 21, 1960: Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
• Jul 22, 1960: Cuba nationalizes all US owned sugar factories
• Jul 24, 1960: 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone Country Club - Akron
• Jul 25, 1960: US Republican Convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
• Jul 26, 1960: Italian government of Fanfani forms
• Jul 27, 1960: VP Nixon nominated for President at Republican Convention in Chicago
• Jul 28, 1960: Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
• Jul 31, 1960: KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast
• Aug 1, 1960: Aretha Franklins 1st recording session
• Aug 3, 1960: Niger gains independence from France.
• Aug 4, 1960: Rocket propelled US Air Force research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH.
• Aug 5, 1960: Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
• Aug 6, 1960: Pitt Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto
• Aug 7, 1960: Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
• Aug 8, 1960: Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini hits #1
• Aug 9, 1960: Race riot in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
• Aug 10, 1960: Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned first object from space.
• Aug 11, 1960: French colony of Chad became independent
• Aug 12, 1960: 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7
• Aug 13, 1960: Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France
• Aug 15, 1960: Congo (formerly Congo / Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
• Aug 16, 1960: Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Republic of Congo) forms
• Aug 17, 1960: Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
• Aug 18, 1960: 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois
• Aug 19, 1960: Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR
• Aug 20, 1960: USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
• Aug 22, 1960: Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open
• Aug 24, 1960: 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil.
• Aug 25, 1960: 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
• Aug 27, 1960: Anita Lonsbrough swims world / olympic record 200m
• Aug 29, 1960: Jordan Premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
• Aug 30, 1960: Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
• Aug 31, 1960: Agricultural Hall of Fame established.
• Sep 1, 1960: Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
• Sep 2, 1960: Tamara and Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
• Sep 5, 1960: President Kasavubu fires Premier Lumumba of Congo
• Sep 6, 1960: William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two American cryptologists, announce their defection to the Soviet Union at a press conference in Moscow.
• Sep 7, 1960: Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m
• Sep 8, 1960: German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners
• Sep 9, 1960: 4th American Football League plays first game (Denver 13, Boston 10).
• Sep 10, 1960: Abebe Bikila runs Olympic / World record marathon
• Sep 11, 1960: 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
• Sep 13, 1960: Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
• Sep 14, 1960: Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC
• Sep 15, 1960: France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments
• Sep 16, 1960: Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at age 98.
• Sep 17, 1960: Cuba nationalizes American-owned banks.
• Sep 18, 1960: Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
• Sep 20, 1960: WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Sep 22, 1960: Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
• Sep 24, 1960: USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
• Sep 25, 1960: 1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
• Sep 26, 1960: 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon and Kennedy took place (Chicago)
• Sep 28, 1960: Millionaire, last airs on CBS-TV
• Sep 29, 1960: Johnny Ringo, TV Western Drama
• Sep 30, 1960: West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany
• Oct 1, 1960: 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
• Oct 2, 1960: Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
• Oct 3, 1960: Janio Quadros elected President of Brazil
• Oct 4, 1960: Courier 1B launched; first active repeater satellite in orbit.
• Oct 5, 1960: British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament
• Oct 7, 1960: Route 66 premieres
• Oct 8, 1960: Bobby Richarson hits a world series grand slammer (World Series #57).
• Oct 9, 1960: Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass
• Oct 10, 1960: Laughs & Other Events opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 8 performances
• Oct 11, 1960: Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan
• Oct 12, 1960: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly session.
• Oct 13, 1960: Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
• Oct 14, 1960: Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen
• Oct 15, 1960: Laughs & Other Events closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 performances
• Oct 16, 1960: NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league
• Oct 17, 1960: Tenderloin opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 216 performances
• Oct 18, 1960: In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
• Oct 19, 1960: KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
• Oct 20, 1960: Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as New York Yankees manager.
• Oct 21, 1960: 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
• Oct 22, 1960: Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
• Oct 24, 1960: Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
• Oct 25, 1960: Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses
• Oct 26, 1960: AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington DC for 1961
• Oct 27, 1960: AL admits LA and Washington to the league
• Oct 29, 1960: Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16.
• Oct 30, 1960: Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• Nov 1, 1960: Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
• Nov 2, 1960: George Weiss, at 66, resigns as GM of New York Yankees
• Nov 3, 1960: Unsinkable Molly Brown opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 performances
• Nov 4, 1960: Misfits premieres, final movie for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe
• Nov 7, 1960: KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
• Nov 8, 1960: JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for 35th US President
• Nov 11, 1960: Largest New York Knicks' 49th Steet Madison Square Gardens crowd-18,499.
• Nov 12, 1960: Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails
• Nov 13, 1960: Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude, Spain).
• Nov 14, 1960: OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms
• Nov 15, 1960: USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
• Nov 16, 1960: NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
• Nov 17, 1960: New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
• Nov 18, 1960: Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
• Nov 19, 1960: Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
• Nov 21, 1960: Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
• Nov 22, 1960: French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
• Nov 23, 1960: Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 24, 1960: Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record).
• Nov 25, 1960: CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone and 2nd Mrs Burton) and cancels 4 other series
• Nov 26, 1960: 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6
• Nov 27, 1960: CBS radio cancels Have Gun Will Travel
• Nov 28, 1960: CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes
• Nov 29, 1960: 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy
• Nov 30, 1960: French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
• Dec 1, 1960: Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
• Dec 3, 1960: Camelot opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
• Dec 4, 1960: The admission of Mauritania to the United Nations vetoed by the Soviet Union for inscrutable reasons.
• Dec 5, 1960: Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium.
• Dec 6, 1960: AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
• Dec 7, 1960: Ivory Coast claims independence from France
• Dec 8, 1960: Expansion Los Angeles Angels sign a four-year lease to use Dodger Stadium.
• Dec 9, 1960: 1st broadcast of Coronation Street on British ITV
• Dec 11, 1960: Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die.
• Dec 12, 1960: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds a lower Federal Court ruling that the State of Louisiana's laws on racial segregation laws are unconstitutional, and overturns them.
• Dec 13, 1960: Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane.
• Dec 14, 1960: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms.
• Dec 15, 1960: Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
• Dec 16, 1960: Wildcat opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
• Dec 17, 1960: La Plume de Ma Tante closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 performances
• Dec 18, 1960: General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid.
• Dec 19, 1960: Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction in Brooklyn, New York (50 die).
• Dec 20, 1960: National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
• Dec 23, 1960: King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power.
• Dec 24, 1960: Dutch bishops question papacy values.
• Dec 26, 1960: Do Re Mi opens at St. James Theater NYC for 400 performances
• Dec 27, 1960: France sets off its third A-bomb test at its nuclear weapons testing range near Reggane, Algeria.
• Dec 31, 1960: The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
• Jan 1, 1960: Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.

The year 1960 refers to a specific year in the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly used internationally. It is the 61st year of the 20th century and the 0th year of the 1960s decade. In the Gregorian calendar, it follows 1959 and precedes 1961.