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USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) steams under Golden Gate Bridge, 16 November 1960. November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected president.
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the ...
November 14, 1960: U.S. Marshals escorting Ruby Bridges to and from school. Four 6-year old Black girls, "first of their race to attend white public schools in New Orleans since the days of the Reconstruction". [61] The other three students enrolled at McDonough Elementary, were enrolled at two elementary schools in the area.
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
The rest of the world would learn about CPR in the July 9, 1960, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. [20] National Airlines Flight 2511 exploded in mid-flight at 18,000 feet (5,500 m) and crashed into a swamp at 2:00 a.m. near Bolivia, North Carolina, killing all 34 on board. The 29 passengers had been put on the Douglas ...
Nevertheless, the spy flights continued, and on May 1, 1960, a U-2 would be downed in Soviet territory. [38] West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer met with Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, the first time a German leader had conferred with a leader of the Jewish state. Two weeks earlier, the ...
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May 1, 1960: USSR shoots down American U-2 spy plane and captures USAF spy pilot Francis Gary Powers alive May 22, 1960: Earthquake strikes Chile, triggers tsunamis and aftershocks that kill over 5,000 people in Chile, U.S., and Japan May 16, 1960: Physicist Theodore Maiman makes successful test of the first laser