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November. 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.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1960. 1960 (MCMLX) 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 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
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, and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western countries.
November 9, 1960 (Wednesday) The day after the American presidential election, Vice President Nixon conceded defeat to Senator Kennedy at 12:47 p.m. EST, 17 minutes after the news came that Kennedy had won Minnesota 's 11 electoral votes. With 270 needed to win, victory in Minnesota took Kennedy to at least 272.
It’s a good time to ask what else happened in York County in the 1960s other than racial turmoil. Indeed, that decade was a time of great change all around York County. ... To see the events, ...
14 March – Jodrell Bank Observatory makes contact with the American Pioneer 5 over a record-breaking distance of 407,000 miles. [ 7 ] 20 March – Lonnie Donegan 's single " My Old Man's a Dustman " reaches No. 1 in the UK charts. [ 8 ] 26 March – The Grand National is televised for the first time.
Ian Keith, 61, American film actor. March 27, 1960 (Sunday) Four students at St. Mary's University, Texas —Orion Knox, Jr., Al Brandt, Preston Knodell and Jo Cantu—discovered the Natural Bridge Caverns in Comal County, Texas. As the largest known cave system in that state, the caverns are now a tourist attraction.
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