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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 20, 1960 – Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
• January 21, 1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
• January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
• April 4, 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
• May 6, 1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
• May 24, 1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
• June 26, 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France.
• July 14, 1960 – Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
• September 8, 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• October 4, 1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.

Who Were Born On 1960?

• January 14, 1960 – Meeli Kõiva, Estonian artist
• January 20, 1960 – Apa Sherpa, Nepalese-American mountaineer
• January 23, 1960 – Leilani Kai, American wrestler and trainer
• February 2, 1960 – Jari Porttila, Finnish journalist
• March 3, 1960 – Benedict Carey, American journalist
• March 21, 1960 – Benito T. de Leon, Filipino general
• April 2, 1960 – Brad Jones, Australian race car driver
• September 30, 1960 – Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer (The Fall)
• October 14, 1960 – Steve Cram, English runner and coach
• December 12, 1960 – Martina Hellmann, German discus thrower