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January   February   March   April   May   June   July   August   September   October   November   December     General 1960 Miss World 1960 Norma Cappagli ( Miss Argentina ) Miss Universe 1960 Linda Bement (U.S.A.) 1960 Rome Olympics British Olympic Gold Medal Winners Don Thompson   50km walk Anita Lonsborough  200 metres breaststroke 1960 Academy Awards - The 'Oscars' Best Actor: Burt Lancaster ( Elmer Gantry )   Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor ( Butterfield 8 ) Best Film: The Apartment                              1960 Eurovision Song Contest 1960 Winner: France Jacqueline Boyer  'Tom Pillibi' 1960 - General The Average Wage: £14.10s.8d Sony market the first all-transistor television set France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara desert Adolf Eichmann is found living under false name in Argentina The inertia seat belt is invented and marketed by Britax Berry Gordy forms the Tamla and Motown record labels Vaccines are introduced for measles and rubella Unemployment quoted at 355,000 Mao Tse-Tung issues his 'little red book' Cliff Richard makes his first U.S. tour Teflon is patented Actor Tommy Sands marries Nancy Sinatra Pentel invent the fibre tipped pen 'Cathy's Clown' by the Everly Brothers is WB1 - Warner Brothers first U.K. release Bobby Darin marries Alexandra Zuck, better known as Sandra Dee Elvis gets his first U.K. gold disc for 'Its Now Or Never' - his 35th in total Automatic pin-spotters for bowling alleys are introduced into the U.K. January 1960 1st Cameroon gains independence 10th Nasser lays the foundation stone of the Aswan High Dam 12th Author Nevil Shute dies aged 60 12th The only feature film made in 'Smell-O-Vision', Scent of Mystery, opens in Chicago 20th The government announces curbs on the sale of 'pep-pills' February 1960 Joe Meek launches the 'Triumph' record label 9th The Hollywood 'Walk Of Fame' is dedicated 17th Elvis Presley achieves his first 'Gold' album 18th The 1960 Winter Olympics open in Squaw Valley, Idaho U.S.A. 19th Prince Andrew is born 21st Fidel Castro nationalises all American owned businesses in Cuba 22nd The government announces plans to build a supersonic airliner 26th Princess Margaret's engagement to Anthony Armstrong-Jones is announced March 1960 2nd Elvis Presley visits the U.K. for the only time while his plane is refuelled in Scotland 5th Elvis gets his discharge papers from the U.S. Army 10th Record Retailer / Music Week publishes the first U.K. L.P. chart listing 10th Record Retailer / Music Week publishes the first U.K. top 50 singles chart 14th The government announces plans for a Thames Barrier to prevent floods 17th A new style £1 note goes into circulation 21st The Sharpeville massacre in Witwatersrand, South Africa results in over 200 deaths and injuries April 1960 The Everly Brothers visit Britain for the first time 1st Tiros 1 the first meteorological satellite is launched, built by RCA 13th Stirling Moss receives a 1 year ban for dangerous driving 13th British Government announces plans to scrap the 'Blue Streak' project 17th Eddie Cochran is killed in car crash near Chippenham. Gene Vincent and Sharon Sheeley are also hurt 21st Pirate radio ship 'Veronica' begins broadcasting 21st Brasilia succeeds Rio de Janeiro as capital of Brazil May 1960 American film star Tommy Sands starts his national service in the U.S.A.F. The Cavern Club books its first rock / pop acts: Cass and the Casanovas and Rory Storme and The Hurricanes 1st Gary Powers is shot down in a U2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk 6th 29 year old Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones 5th The Beetals (Beatles) fail an audition to become Billy Fury's backing band 17th The Queen Mother opens the Kariba Dam on the Zambesi river 18th Real Madrid win football's European Cup for the 5th time in a row 30th Nobel Prize winning author Boris Pasternak dies aged 70 June 1960 B.B.C.s Desert Island Discs celebrates its 500th edition 7th The first N.H.S. hearing aids are issued 9th Armstrong-Siddeley cars announces that it is to cease production 19th Jaguar takes over the Daimler Motor Company 19th Two British drivers, Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey are killed in the Belgian Grand Prix. Other Grand Prix standard drivers killed in 1960 were Harry Blanchard and Harry Schell 20th Floyd Patterson defeats Ingemar Johansson to become World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 23rd The Royalty theatre opens in London 29th The B.B.C. television centre in West London opens July 1960 The laser is first demonstrated by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories 6th Politician Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan dies aged 62 12th Kruschev vows to back Cuba in expulsion of U.S. from its Guantanamo naval base 18th Donald Campbell makes the first test run in the new £1 million Bluebird car 21st Francis Chichester sets a new cross-Atlantic sailing record of 40 days in Gypsy Moth II August 1960 16th Cyprus gains independence. Archbishop Makarios is elected the first President 22nd Belka and Strelka, launched on the 19th, are the first dogs to return alive from a space shot. 18th 'The Pill' goes on sale in the U.S.A. after the American Food and Drug Administration approves use of Enovid-10. The U.K. has to wait another 12 months 19th Penguin books are prosecuted for obscenity over plans to publish 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' 23rd Oscar Hammerstein II dies 25th The 1960 Olympic Games open in Rome 31st East Germany closes its border with West Berlin September 1960 12th The M.O.T. test for vehicles over 10 years old is introduced 19th Traffic wardens and parking tickets are seen for the first time in London. 344 tickets are issued 26th The first televised presidential debate between Kennedy and Nixon is broadcast 27th The first 'travelator' opens at Bank underground station 30th Nigeria gains independence October 1960 The Hawker-Siddeley VTOL P1127 'Harrier' makes its first flight Sammy Davis Jr marries Mai Britt despite death threats from the Ku Klux Klan 2nd Anthony Wedgwood-Benn resigns from Labour's National Executive Committee 3rd Brigitte Bardot leaves hospital following a suicide attempt 9th Southern England is hit by the worst flooding since 1953 21st Britain's first nuclear submarine H.M.S. Dreadnought is launched 22nd Cassius Clay has his first professional fight in Louisville, Kentucky 28th Britain's first urban motorway, the M62, opens in Manchester November 1960 OPEC is set up to control world oil prices 2nd The courts decide that 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' can be published 5th Comedian Mack Sennett dies 5th Actor Ward Bond of 'Wagon Train' dies 5th 33 year old singer Johnny Horton is killed in a car crash 9th John F.Kennedy is elected 35th President of the United States 10th The Royal Shakespeare Company is formed under director Peter Hall 10th Penguin's initial print run of 200,000 of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' sells out on the first day 16th Actor Clark Gable dies aged 59 31st The official end of National Service is declared as the last 2,049 men are inducted December 1960 2nd Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier become divorced 5th Leyland Motors announces that it is to take over Standard-Triumph International 9th The first episode of Coronation Street is shown on television 14th The Australia vs West Indies test match ends in the first ever 'tied' game 20th Richard Baer, the last Kommandant of Auswitz, is arrested in West Germany