Cuban Revolution: Cuba Nationalizes Foreign Property, August 6, 1960
Date: August 6, 1960
Date: August 6, 1960
Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy. Date: December 15, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on December 15 π Events on this day in 1960 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1960US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty Signed January 19, 1960BrasΓlia Officially Inaugurated as Brazil’s…
In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). Date: September 8, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 8 π Events on this day in 1960 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Nasser…
The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Date: May 22, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on May 22 π Events on this day in 1960 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1960National Airlines Flight 2511…
At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Date: April 15, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on April 15 π Events on this…
The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland. Date: June 26, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on June 26 π Events on this day in 1960 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Eisenhower Signs Anti-Cuban Covert Action Directive, March 17, 1960Iraq Associations Law Allows Political…
The Games of the XVII Olympiad commence in Rome, Italy. Date: August 25, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 25 π Events on this day in 1960 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1960NSA Cryptographers Defect to Soviet Union from Mexico, June 25, 1960Cold War U-2 Crisis: Khrushchev…