26 events found for 1960
Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first athlete from sub-Saharan…
At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to…
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General…
Japan Socialist Party leader Inejirō Asanuma (pictured) was assassinated during a live television recording by a…
A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in…
At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the…