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lol, I nearly have 300 in this thread.
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January - The state of emergency is lifted in Kenya — the Mau Mau Uprising is officially over.
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January 1 - Cameroon gains its independence.
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I just realized my little past 7 am estimations are going to be off.
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7:45 am should be alright.
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January 3 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President.
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January 9-January 11 - Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt.
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January 10 - British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for the first time (see February 3).
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January 14 - Reserve Bank and Commonwealth Bank are created in Australia.
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January 19 - The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in Washington, DC.
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January 21 - A mine collapses at Coalbrook, South Africa, killing 437.
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January 22 - In France, President Charles de Gaulle fires Jacques Massun, commander-in-chief for the French troops in Algeria.
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January 23 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descend into the Marianas Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste, reaching the depth of 10,916 meters.
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January 24 - A major insurrection occurs in Algiers against French colonial policy.
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January 25 - In Washington, DC, the National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
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February 1 - In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and 6 months later the original 4 protesters are served lunch at the same counter.
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* February 3 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast - now Ghana - on January 10 the same year).
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February 5 - The CERN particle accelerator is inaugurated in Geneva, Switzerland.
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February 9 - Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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# February 9 - Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500,000. Coors is later found dead and Joseph Corbett, Jr. is indicted.
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February 10 - A conference about the independence of the Belgian Congo begins in Brussels.
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150 away or about 7:37 eta
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my 7:45 first predicton was pretty spot on
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February 11 - The airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in Massachusetts.
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# February 11 - Twelve Indian soldiers die in clashes with Chinese troops at their common border.
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February 13 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara.
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February 18 - The 1960 Winter Olympics open in Squaw Valley, California.
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February 29 - An earthquake totally destroys Agadir, Morocco.
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March 3 - Elvis Presley returns home from Germany, after being away on duty for 2 years.
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March 6 - Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.
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March 6 - The Canton of Geneva in Switzerland gives women the right to vote
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March 17 - Northwest Orient Airlines flight 710 crashes near Tell City, Indiana killing all 63 on board.
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March 21 - The Sharpeville massacre in South Africa kills more than 69 people, wounds 300.
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March 22 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
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March 23 - Nikita Khrushchev meets Charles De Gaulle in Paris.
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March 25 - Tom Pillibi by Jacqueline Boyer (music by André Popp, text by Pierre Cour) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 for France.
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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.
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April 1 - The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
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The first 3 female priests are ordained in Sweden.
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April 12 - Eric Peugeot, youngest son of the founder of Peugeot, is kidnapped in Paris. Kidnappers release him April 15 in exchange for $300,000 ransom.
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April 13 - The United States launches navigation satellite Transit I-b.
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April 13 - The Blue Streak missile is cancelled.
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April 16 - Gunman David Pratt attacks South African Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.
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post 333 for me in this thread.
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April 19 - In the April Revolution, South Korean students hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually leading him to resign.
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April 21 - In Brazil, the country's capital (Federal District) is shifted from Rio de Janeiro to BrasĂ*lia. The Guanabara State is founded to succeed Rio de Janeiro as the Brazilian Federal District.
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April 27 - Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
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May 1 - A Soviet missile shoots down an American Lockheed U2 spy plane; the pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured.
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# May 1 - In India, May 1st is declared as 'Maharashtra Divas', i.e., Maharashtra Day (the same day is also celebrated as 'Kaamgaar Divas', i.e., Workers Day).
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May 4 - West German refugee minister Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his Nazi past.
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May 6 - President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
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May 9 - The U.S. FDA announces that it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making it the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
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May 11 - In Buenos Aires, 4 Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was using the alias "Ricardo Klement".
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May 13 - A Swiss/Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.
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May 14 - The Kenyan African National Congress Party is founded in Kenya, when 3 political parties join forces.
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May 15 - Sputnik 4 is launched into Earth orbit.
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May 16 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
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May 16 - Theodore Maiman operates the first laser.
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May 20 - In Japan, police carry away Socialist members of the Diet; Parliament then approves a security treaty with the United States.
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May 22 - Great Chilean Earthquake: Chile's subduction fault ruptures from Talcahuano to Taitao Peninsula, causing a tsunami and one of the greatest earthquakes on record. Seismographs in Valdivia crash.
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May 23 - Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured.
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May 27 - In Turkey, a bloodless military coup d'état removes President Celal Bayar and installs General Cemal Gürsel as head of state.
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# June 1 - New Zealand's first television transmission occurs when a switch is flicked in Shortland Street, Auckland
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June 4 - The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.
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June 6 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy wins the California Democratic primary.
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June 9 - Typhoon Mary kills 1,000,000 in the Fukien province of China.
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June 15 - Violent demonstrations at Tokyo University result in 182 arrests, 589 injuries.
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June 15 - BC Ferries, the second largest ferry operator in the world, starts service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay.
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June 19 - The Associated Broadcasting Company is founded in the Philippines.
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June 20 - The Mali Federation between Senegal and Sudanese Republic (now Mali) gains independence from France.
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June 23 - Japanese prime minister Nobusuke Kishi announces his resignation.
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June 24 - Joseph Kasavubu is elected the first president of independent Congo.
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June 24 - Avro 748 makes its first flight at Woodford, UK.
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June 26 - British Somaliland gains independence from the United Kingdom; 5 days later it unites with the former Italian Somaliland to create the modern Somali Republic.
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June 28 - The University of Novi Sad is founded.
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June 29 - The Kanlaon Broadcasting System (KBS), the fourth TV station in the Philippines, is launched.
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June 30 - Belgian Congo gains independence from Belgium; civil war follows.
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June 30 - Public demonstrations by democratic and left forces, against Italian government support of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement, are heavily suppressed by police.
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July 1 - Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the Head of state.
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July 1 - A Soviet MiG fighter north of Murmansk in the Barents Sea shoots down a 6-man RB-47. Two United States Air Force officers survive and are imprisoned in Moscow's dreaded Lubyanka prison.
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# July 1 - Italian Somailand Gains it's Independence from Italy, 5 days after the British Somailand
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July 4 - Following the admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state the previous year, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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July 10 - The Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia 2-1 to win the first European Football Championship.
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July 11 - Moise Tshombe declares the Congolese province of Katanga independent; he receives Belgian help.
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July 11 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, California.
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July 12 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
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July 14 - The United Nations decides to send troops to Katanga to oversee Belgian troops withdrawal.
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July 20 - Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
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July 21 - Francis Chichester, English navigator and yachtsman, arrives in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II — he has made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days.
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July 25 - The Woolworth's counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the subject of a sit-in which sparked sit-ins and pickets across the southern United States in February 1960, serves its first black customer.
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July 25-July 28 - In Chicago, the Republican National Convention nominates U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon for President and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. for Vice President.
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July 27 - The OECD is founded in Paris.
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