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  2. May 1960 - Wikipedia

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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

  3. May 16 - Wikipedia

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    1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. 1961 – Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea. 1966 – The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

  4. 1960 U-2 incident - Wikipedia

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    The summit itself did not last long, with talks only beginning on 15 May and ending on 16 May. Both Eisenhower and Khrushchev gave statements on the 16th. Khrushchev blasted the United States on the U-2 incident. He pointed out that the policy of secret spying was one of mistrust and that the incident had doomed the summit before it even began.

  5. 1960 - Wikipedia

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    1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and ... May 16. Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician;

  6. 1960 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    May 16 Theodore Maiman operates the first laser . Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union , thus ending the 1960 Paris summit .

  7. Ruby laser - Wikipedia

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    The first working laser was a ruby laser made by Theodore H. "Ted" Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories on May 16, 1960. [1] [2] Ruby lasers produce pulses of coherent visible light at a wavelength of 694.3 nm, which is a deep red color. Typical ruby laser pulse lengths are on the order of a millisecond.

  8. Theodore Maiman - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] The laser was successfully fired on May 16, 1960. In a July 7, 1960, press conference in Manhattan, [10] Maiman and his employer, Hughes Aircraft Company, announced the laser to the world. [11] Maiman was granted a patent for his invention, [12] and he received many awards and honors for his work.

  9. United States v. Alabama - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Alabama, 325 U.S.. 602 (1960), was a Supreme Court case in which the court held that, after the Civil Rights Act of 1960 was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 6, 1960, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama now had jurisdiction to hear a challenge against Alabama for violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.