1960 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1957 1958 1959 – 1960 – 1961 1962 1963

1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the 1960s.

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Events

January – State of emergency is lifted in Kenya – Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over
January 1 – Independence of Cameroon
January 9 – Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt
January 14 – Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire.
January 14 – Reserve bank and Commonwealth Bank created (a)
January 23 – Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in the bathyscaphe USS Trieste break a depth record when they descend to the bottom of Challenger Deep 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) below sea level in the Pacific Ocean
January 24 – A major insurrection in Algiers against French colonial policy
January 25 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disk jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records
February 1 – (Greensboro, N.C.) Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter.
February 9 – Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
February 9 – Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500.000. Coors is later found killed and Joseph Corbett Jr is indicted
February 11 – The airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in Massachusetts
February 13 – Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb
February 29 – Earthquake totally destroys Agadir, Morocco.
March 21 – The Sharpeville Massacre occurs in South Africa.
April 4 – Senegal becomes independent.
April 27 – Togo becomes independent.
May 1 – A Lockheed U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union, making an international incident.
May 11 – Nazi politician Adolf Eichmann is captured in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Mossad.
May 22 – The Great Chilean Earthquake occurs.
June 26 – The British protectorate Somaliland becomes independent.
June 26 – Madagascar becomes independent.
June 30 – The present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
July 1 – Somalia becomes independent.
July 1 – Ghana becomes a Republic.
August 1 – Benin becomes independent.
August 3 – Niger becomes independent.
August 5 – Upper Volta becomes independent. It is later renamed Burkina Faso.
August 11 – Chad becomes independent.
August 13 – The Central African Republic becomes independent.
August 15 – The Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
August 17 – Gabon becomes independent.
October 1 – Nigeria becomes independent.
October 24 – Zambia becomes independent.
November 8 – John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States.
November 28 – Mauritania becomes independent.