76 events found for 1960
In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA…
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the…
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.
Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan sign the Indus Waters Treaty for the control…
The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
The Flintstones animated sitcom premieres on ABC television.
Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Eastern Airlines flight 375 crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people of the 72…
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome…
An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.