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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 1, 1960 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
• January 28, 1960 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
• February 8, 1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• February 16, 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• March 21, 1960 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
• June 20, 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
• 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.
• August 12, 1960 – Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, is launched.
• November 11, 1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
• December 17, 1960 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.

Who Were Born On 1960?

• January 4, 1960 – Jane Halton, Australian public servant
• March 24, 1960 – Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
• April 28, 1960 – Steven Blum, American voice actor and screenwriter
• May 10, 1960 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, humanitarian and activist (U2)
• June 2, 1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver and sportscaster
• September 30, 1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
• October 8, 1960 – Rano Karno, Indonesian actor and politician
• October 14, 1960 – Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer and coach
• October 20, 1960 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player and trainer (d. 2004)
• December 9, 1960 – Terry Moran, American journalist