Date: May 6, 1960
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 crashes in Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana, killing 63. Date: March 17, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960TIROS-1 Transmits First Television Picture from Space, April 1, 1960Iraq Associations…
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 1960Greensboro Sit-Ins Begin: Black Students Protest…
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…
Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal. Date: September 5, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 5 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1960Little Joe 1B Mercury Launch with Miss Sam January 21, 1960NSA Cryptographers Defect to…
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Date: March 17, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 17 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More…
Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. Date: March 9, 1960 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 9 📅 Events on this day in 1960 📅 On This Day (Today) More…