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A. A.R.G.S.T. Barnabas; Brynjar Aa; Jaak Aab; John Aalberg (skier) Simo Aalto; Jarle Aambø; Willie Aames; Bonnie Aarons; Johan Aas; Rigmor Aasrud; Najat Aatabou ...
June 3, 1960: Sega Corporation established The Japanese electronics company Sega was established as Nihon Goraku Bussan by American businessmen Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart. Originally a maker coin-operated machines, the company would become famous for releasing the first Sonic the Hedgehog game in 1991.
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 ...
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These records would stand unbeaten for over 60 years. August 17 – The trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Moscow . August 18 – United States president Dwight Eisenhower is briefed on the Congo crisis at a meeting with the U.S. National Security Council , and asks whether the U.S. "can't get rid of this guy" ( Patrice Lumumba ).
J. H. C. Whitehead, mathematician (born 1904 in Madras) (heart attack at Princeton, NJ) 7 June – Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, English Liberal politician and cricketer (born 1880) 27 June Lottie Dod, English sportswoman (born 1871) [44] Harry Pollitt, English communist (born 1890) 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Labour politician (born 1897)
June 2 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another planet. June 5 – Gemini 9: Gene Cernan completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes). June 6 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot while trying to march across Mississippi; he ...