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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.
This article lists the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as approved on 25 July 1960 by Pope John XXIII 's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum and promulgated by the Sacred Congregation of Rites the following day, 26 July 1960, by the decree Novum rubricarum. [1][2] This 1960 calendar was incorporated into the 1962 edition of the Roman ...
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.
August 20, 1960 (Saturday) Senegal seceded from the Mali Federation, following a dispute, between Defense Minister Mamadou Dia and Federation Premier Modibo Keita, over whether the Federation's first president would be a figurehead or a strongman. Keita fired Dia, and Dia had Keita arrested. Keita and non-Senegalese members of his cabinet were ...
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. The winner is Merryman II.
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.
0–9. 1960 events by month (19 C) 1961 events by month (19 C) 1962 events by month (19 C) 1963 events by month (19 C) 1964 events by month (19 C) 1965 events by month (19 C) 1966 events by month (19 C) 1967 events by month (19 C)
July 1960 events in the United States (1 C, 6 P) August 1960 events in the United States (1 C, 1 P) September 1960 events in the United States (1 C, 3 P)