The Thread of Random Internetz

March 3 - Elvis Presley returns home from Germany, after being away on duty for 2 years.

March 6 - Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.

March 6 - The Canton of Geneva in Switzerland gives women the right to vote

March 17 - Northwest Orient Airlines flight 710 crashes near Tell City, Indiana killing all 63 on board.

March 21 - The Sharpeville massacre in South Africa kills more than 69 people, wounds 300.

March 22 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

March 23 - Nikita Khrushchev meets Charles De Gaulle in Paris.

March 25 - Tom Pillibi by Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for France.

April 1 - Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Sultan of Selangor.

April 1 - The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.