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Clara Kimball Young was an American film actress who was popular in the early silent film era.
Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (born 1890)
Hjalmar Karl Emil Dahl was a Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist, translator and author.
Hjalmar Dahl, Finnish journalist, translator and writer (born 1891)
George Stephenson "Onkus" Wallace, was an Australian comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio personality. During the early to mid-20th century, he was one of the most famous and su…
George Wallace, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1895)
Henry George Ferguson was a British mechanic and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor and its three-point linkage system, for be…
Harry Ferguson, Irish-English engineer, founded the Ferguson Company (born 1884)
Toshizō Nishio was a Japanese general, considered to be one of the Imperial Japanese Army's most successful and ablest strategists during the Second Sino-Japanese War, who command…
Toshizō Nishio, Japanese general (born 1881)
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres…
The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 pe
Yevgeny Ilyich Ostashev was a combat engineer, test pilot of rocket and space technology, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, head of the 1st control…
Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin…
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil and the Federal District. Located in the Brazilian Highlands in the country's Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubi…
Brasília, a planned city primarily designed by architect and urban planner Lúcio Costa, was officially inaugurated, repl
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and is designated as the navy of the United States in the Constitution. With 290 comba…
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The General Assembly Committee on Schools, commonly known as the Sibley Commission, was a committee created by the state government of Georgia in 1960 in order to study possible ap…
The Sibley Commission issued their final report, urging the government of the U
The Netherlands Carillon is a 127-foot (39-m)-tall campanile housing a 53-bell carillon located in Arlington County, Virginia, United States.
The Netherlands Carillon was inaugurated in Arlington, Virginia, on the 15th anniversary of Dutch Liberation Day
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc …
Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy pl
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. It is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The Belgian Congo gained independence from colonial rule, beginning a period of instability that would lead to the dicta
Albert Kalonji was a Congolese politician and businessman from the Luba ya Kasai nobility. He was elected king/emperor (mulopwe) of the Baluba ya Kasai (Bambo) and for most of 1961…
Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting p…
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Theodore Harold Maiman was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman's laser led to the subsequent development of many other…
American physicist Theodore Maiman operated the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami or the Great Chilean earthquake occurred on 22 May 1960. Most studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale, making it th…
The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, registering approximately 9
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch. The film sta…
Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Rob
The Mali Federation was a federation in West Africa that linked the French colonies of Senegal and the Sudanese Republic for two months in 1960. It was founded on 4 April 1959 as a…
The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later
Cryptography, or cryptology, is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More generally, cryptography is about constru…
Two cryptographers working for the U
Kwame Kofi Nkrumah, baptised Francis, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it …
Ghana became a republic, with Kwame Nkrumah as its first president.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by American author Harper Lee. It became instantly successful after its release; in the United States, it is widely read in hi…
To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee featuring themes of racial injustice and the loss of innocence in the…
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1–11 was a Northwest Orient Airlines flight from New York City to Manila, with stopovers in Seattle, Anchorage, Tokyo, and Okinawa. On July 14, 196…
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 ditched off Polillo Island in the Philippines, killing one person and injuring…
Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman, politician and public official who thrice served as Prime Minister of Sri …
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (pictured) was sworn in as prime minister of Ceylon, becoming the world's first democratically…