Date: April 9, 1960
Eastern Airlines flight 375 crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people of the 72 aboard. Date: October 4, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 4 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Coronation Street First Episode Broadcast in…
Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police. Date: January 24, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today)…
Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France. Date: August 5, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 5 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960South Kasai Secedes from Congo, August 9, 1960UNESCO Convention Against Discrimination in Education Adopted…
Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted. Date: December 14, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 14 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Rome Hosts Games of the XVII Olympiad August 25, 1960France Grants Independence to Mali Federation, April…
With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. Date: February 13, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 13 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Fidel Castro Arrives in New York…
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…