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1960 |
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Yo-Yo becomes national craze Ray Kroc opens 200 McDonalds in Southern California Ernest Hemingway dies of self-inflicted gunshot Dow Jones high of 734 low of 610 Kennedy creates the Peace Corps. X-15 rocket plane reached a record altitude of 31.25 miles Forty more "Dead Sea " scrolls are found in Palestine Author Ernest Hemingway commits suicide with shotgun Thousands flee East Germany as Berlin Wall goes up |
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Adolf Eichman Hanged in Jerusalem Author William Faulkner dies. Mariner II is first interplanetary probe, goes around Venus My Fair Lady, longest running musical, closes after 2,717 performances Diet Rite and Tab make their first appearance. Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points In one game Conservatives hold rally for Goldwater Cuba sentences Bay of Pigs invaders, asks for ransom Kennedy gets steel companies to roll back prices |
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January Jan. 14th- Alabama Governor George Wallace vows "segregation now, segregation forever" in his inaugural speech Jan. 17th- President John F. Kennedy sends his projected budget to the U.S. Congress: $98,800,000,000 with a projected deficit of $11,900,000,000 Jan. 28th- School desegregation in South Carolina finally achieved when African-American student Harvey B. Gantt enrolls at Clemson. (Gantt later became mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina) Lerner & Lowe's Camelot closes on Broadway after 873 performances at the Majestic Theatre February Feb. 11th- Poet Sylvia Plath takes her own life in London 1st flight of a Boeing 727 jet Feb. 21st- Medicare is submitted to Congress by President Kennedy (it would be passed after his death under President Johnson)
March March 7th- Manhattan's Pan Am Building is dedicated Alcatraz prison, off San Francisco CA, closes its doors MI6 turncoat Kim Philby defects to USSR Profumo sex scandal rocks Britain First large scale exhibition of Pop Art held at NYC's Guggenheim Museum. Artists include Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns & Roy Lichtenstein March 17th- Elizabeth Ann Seton beatified by Pope John XXIII. She was the first native born American to be so honored April 114 day old newspaper strike ends in New York City April 2nd- Grand jury indicts U.S. Steel and 6 other manufacturers in price-fixing investigation April 9th- Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony April 10th- U.S. nuclear sub Thresher, with crew of 129, lost in Atlantic April 12th- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama during a desegregation drive May Birmingham, Alabama police turn dogs & fire hoses on Civil Rights protesters Harvard Professor Timothy Leary loses post after providing students with LSD May 15th/16th- Astronaut Gordon Cooper completes 22.5 orbits of the earth aboard Faith-7, the last mission of NASA's Project Mercury June U.S. President John F. Kennedy says that segregation is "morally wrong" and it is "time to act..." June 11th- Alabama Governor George Wallace blocks entrance of state university to African-American students. He later backs down in the face of National Guard troops called in by President Kennedy Pope John XXIII dies at the Vatican and Paul VI succeeds him June 11th- 66 year old monk Thich Quang Due shocks the world by immolating himself on the streets of Saigon, in protest of South Vietnamese President Diem's oppression of Buddhists in that country June 12th- Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated in Mississippi Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space aboard Vostok 6 June 26th- JFK, on 10-day European tour, gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at Berlin Wall
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July U.S. "Zone Improvement Plan" or ZIP codes initiated July 25th- A limited nuclear test ban treaty prohibiting testing in the atmosphere, in space and under water is initialed in Moscow by the USA, UK and USSR. (it is signed by JFK Oct. 7th) August Great Train Robbery in Britain nets thieves over £2 million James Meredith becomes the first African-American graduate of the University of Mississippi In South Vietnam, President Ngo Dinh Diem responds to the protests of Buddhist monks against his government by jailing their leaders Aug. 28th- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before a crowd of over 200,000 gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Aug. 30th- Washington-to-Moscow "hotline" goes into effect, with an eye toward cooling Cold War tensions September Sept. 15th- Racist bombing in Birmingham, Alabama kills 4 little girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church CBS & NBC expand their nightly network news broadcasts on television from 15 to 30 minutes October The New York Mirror ceases publication, a victim of the recently ended newspaper strike. Hurricane Flora devastates Cuba, Haiti & the Dominican Republic, killing 7,200 Oct. 28th- Demolition begins on the 53 year old marble & granite Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The senseless loss of the beautiful structure spurs interest in architectural preservation in the city Oct. 31st- Gas explosion at Indiana State Fairgrounds kills 68, wounds 340 November Nov. 1st- South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother assassinated in Saigon. Nov. 22nd- U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas...Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson succeeds him. Nov. 24th- JFK's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, murdered by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, in a killing seen by millions on television Nov. 25th- JFK, the 35th U.S. President, laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery following a mass at St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral. The leaders of 92 nations attend the funeral, among them Charles de Gaulle of France and Prince Phillip of Great Britain Nov. 29th- President Johnson establishes the Warren Commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the death of JFK December Kenya (formerly British East Africa) gains independence Dec. 8th- Frank Sinatra, Jr. (age 19) kidnapped in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He is released 3 days later unhurt in LA after his father pays $240,000 ransom. Most of money recovered when FBI arrests 3 suspects U.S. Congress authorizes JFK half-dollar coin Although full scale involvement in the Southeast Asian conflict was still two years away, by the end of 1963 over 100 U.S. personnel had died in Vietnam...
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