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November. USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) steams under Golden Gate Bridge, 16 November 1960. November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected president.
January 1, 1960 (Friday) [ edit] The Republic of Cameroun became independent at midnight local time (2300 12/31/59 GMT) with the lowering of the French tricolor, and the raising of a new tricolor (red, yellow and green) flag at Yaoundé. The former French Cameroons colony had been under a U.N. Trusteeship during a transition period, and Prime ...
22 June – A fire in a Liverpool department store kills eleven. [20] 24 June – Avro 748 makes its first flight from Woodford. 26 June – British Somaliland gains independence from the United Kingdom. Five days later, it unites with the former Italian Somaliland to create the modern Somali Republic.
February 22, 1960 (Monday) An explosion at the Karl Marx coal mine in Zwickau, East Germany, killed 123 miners. On February 24, a Czechoslovakian mine rescue teams arrived in Zwickau to assist East German teams in the effort to find survivors. By February 27, further rescue attempts were halted and section 1 of the Karl-Marx-Werk mine was ...
American Journalism: A History of Newspapers in the United States, 1690–1960 (3rd ed. 1962). major reference source and interpretive history. Nord, David Paul. Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. (2001) Pride, Armistead S. and Clint C. Wilson. A History of the Black Press. (1997) Schudson, Michael ...
1960 by topic. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1960. 1960 ( MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
November 9, 1960 (Wednesday) The day after the American presidential election, Vice President Nixon conceded defeat to Senator Kennedy at 12:47 p.m. EST, 17 minutes after the news came that Kennedy had won Minnesota 's 11 electoral votes. With 270 needed to win, victory in Minnesota took Kennedy to at least 272.
The following events occurred in October 1960: October 1 , 1960 (Saturday) [ edit ] Nigeria , formerly a British African colony, became an independent nation of 35,000,000 people, with the new flag hoisted in Lagos at 12:01 a.m. [1] Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa became the first Prime Minister, and Nnamdi Azikiwe the Governor General , of the ...
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