The Year 1960
History and Politics
US protests against Cuban expropriations.
Khrushchev in India, Burma, and Indonesia.
Brezhnev becomes President of the USSR.
US admits to aerial reconnaissance flights over USSR when a U-2 airplane
is shot down and it's pilot, Frances Gary Powers, confesses.
Khrushchev, Mcmillan, and Eisenhower, and De Gaulle meet in Paris but the summit talks fail.
Former Gestopo chief Adolf Eichmann arrested.
Belgian Congo granted full independence.
Cyprus becomes independent republic with Archbishop Makarios as president.
Historic TV debates between John F. Kennedy (Democrat) and
Richard M. Nixon (Republican), presidential candidates.
John F. Kennedy elected President of the US.
King Baudouin of Belgium marries Dona Fabiola of Spain.
Adenauer visits the US.
W.E.B. DuBois, American civil rights leader dies.
Students protest segregation by nonviolent sit-ins at whites-only lunch counters in Greensboro, N. C.
Science, Technology, Growth
US launches a radio-reflector satellite.
Nobel Prize for Physics: D A Glaser (US) for his invention of the
bubble-chamber for the study of subatomic particles.
Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology: F M Burnet (Au) and P B Medawar (Brit.)
for their discovery of acquired immunity against foriegn tissue.
Opitcal microwave laser constructed.
R L Mossbauer (US) makes important gamma ray discoveries.
Strell and Woodward independently synthesize chlorophyll.
K H Hofmann (ger.) synthesizes pituitary hormone.
G N Robinson (Brit.) discovers methicillin.
"Triton" US nuclear submarine, completes first circumnavigation of the globe under water.
US scientists develope laser device (light amplification by simulated emission of radiation)
Lt. Don Walsh (US Navy) accompanies Jacques Piccard, Fr. bathynaut, on dive of
the bathyscaphe "Treste" to record 35,800 feet in the Pacific near Guam.
American Heart Assc. issues a report attributing higher death
rates among middle-aged men to heavy smoking of cigarettes.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: W F Libby for his work in archaeological dating techniques using radioactive carbon 14.
US experimental rocket-powered airplane travels at almost 2200 mph.
First weather satellite, Titos I, launched by US to transmit TV images of cloud cover around the world.
Daily Life
Caryl Chessman, convicted rapist, executed in San Quentin gas chamber after 12 yrs of futile appeals.
Washington defeats Wisconsin in Rose Bowl, 44-8.
Paul Pender wins middleweight boxing championship from "Sugar" Ray Robinson.
Bobby Fischer, 16, defends US chess title successfully.
Neo-Nazi political groups banned in Germany.
Brasilia (designed by Lucio Costa) replaces Rio de Janeiro as capitol of Brazil.
Prince Andrew born to Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip (first birth to a reigning monarch since 1857)
Pittsburgh (NL) defeats New York (AL), 4-3 to win World Series.
Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones.
At Olypmic Games in Rome, Herb Elliott, (AU) runs 1500 m. in 3 minutes 35.6 seconds.
Floyd Patterson regains world heavyweight boxing title from Johansson.
T.V.Sets: US, 85 million; Britian, 10.5 million; W. Germany,
2 million; France, 1.5 million.
Dr A. Cordeiro lands a 296 lb. yellowfin tuna off Mexico.
Montreal Canadians win Stanley Cup hockey championship for fifth consecutive year.
US Lawn Tennis Singles won by Neale fraser (Au), women's won by
Darlene Hard (US), Neale Frase wins Wimbledon.
Emily Post dies.
US population at 179,323,000; Gross National Product $502.6 billion.
Arnold Palmer wins US Open; D R Beman wins Amateur.
Charles Van Doren is among 13 contestants on TV show "21" arrested for perjury
in testifying that anwsers to questions were not given them in advance.
Australia defeats Italy to win Davis Cup (tennis)
R C Webster lands a 410 lb. blue shark off Rockport, Mass.
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