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1960 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2044. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1960 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1960
- January 6, 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
- January 18, 1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
- January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 1, 1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- April 1, 1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- April 4, 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- April 9, 1960 – Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg.
- July 4, 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act).
- August 5, 1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
- October 29, 1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
Who Were Born On 1960?
- March 31, 1960 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
- April 29, 1960 – Caveh Zahedi, American actor and director
- May 16, 1960 – S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician (d. 1998)
- July 6, 1960 – Valerie Brisco-Hooks, American sprinter and coach
- July 22, 1960 – Barbara Cassani, American businesswoman
- September 8, 1960 – Aguri Suzuki, Japanese race car driver
- October 26, 1960 – Patrick Breen, American actor and screenwriter
- November 14, 1960 – Tom Judson, American actor and composer
- November 30, 1960 – Bill Halter, American scholar and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
- December 2, 1960 – Justus von Dohnányi, German actor, director, and screenwriter