Chad Declares Independence from France, August 11, 1960

The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season. Date: January 28, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 28 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Scandinavian…

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. Date: September 14, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 14 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Chile Earthquake Tsunami Kills 61 in Hilo, Hawaii, May 23, 1960French Freighter La Coubre Explodes in…

Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey, on board. Date: January 21, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 21 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Cold War U-2 Spyplane…

Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years. Date: January 18, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 18 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More…

Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. Date: August 19, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 19 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…

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 → 📅 Other events on April 15 📅 Events on this…