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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

Historical Events Of 1960

• January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
• February 8, 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name “Mountbatten-Windsor”.
• March 9, 1960 – Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
• 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 19, 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
• July 16, 1960 – USS George Washington a modified sclass- Skipjack successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.
• September 2, 1960 – The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
• September 26, 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the U.S.S.R.
• December 11, 1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.

Who Were Born On 1960?

• January 1, 1960 – Toomas Vitsut, Estonian businessman and politician
• February 6, 1960 – Jeremy Bowen, Welsh journalist
• March 26, 1960 – Jennifer Grey, American actress
• April 22, 1960 – Lloyd Honeyghan, Jamaican-English boxer
• April 25, 1960 – Michael Lohan, American father of Lindsay Lohan
• July 28, 1960 – Jon J. Muth, American author and illustrator
• September 21, 1960 – Sikandar Sanam, Pakistani actor and singer (d. 2012)
• November 29, 1960 – Howard Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• December 5, 1960 – Matthew Taylor, English politician
• December 12, 1960 – Martina Hellmann, German discus thrower