June 1960

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The following events occurred in June 1960:

June 20, 1960: Mali Federation independent
June 13, 1960: Japanese 2-man sub I-18 raised from Pearl Harbor after 18 years
June 26, 1960: Malagasy Republic independent
June 26, 1960: Somali Republic independent
June 30, 1960: Congo (Leopoldville) independent from Belgium

June 1, 1960 (Wednesday)

June 2, 1960 (Thursday)

June 3, 1960 (Friday)

June 4, 1960 (Saturday)

June 5, 1960 (Sunday)

June 6, 1960 (Monday)

  • Barbra Streisand, an 18-year-old Brooklynite, began a professional singing career by winning $50 in a talent contest at "The Lion", a nightclub in Greenwich Village.[13]
  • The first fixed-rate heart pacemaker, with five year mercuric-oxide battery and designed by a team headed by William Chardack, was implanted in a patient.[14]
  • The American Heart Association announced a "statistical association" between heavy cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease, with heavy smokers having 50 to 150 percent greater death rate from heart disease than non-smokers.[15]
  • The 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons went into effect, protecting the rights of any "person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law".[16]
  • Lightweight boxer Tommy Pacheco was fatally injured in a bout with Benny Gordon at St. Nicholas Arena in New York. Pacheco died three days later from a cerebral hemorrhage.[17]
  • At the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, won by Jack Brabham, a spectator was killed. Dan Gurney's car skidded off the track, fatally injuring 18-year old Piet Aalders of Haarlem.[18]
  • Three teenagers were brutally murdered in Finland while on a camping trip. The fourth member of the group, who had been seriously wounded, would be arrested nearly 44 years later,[19] but would be acquitted.[20]
  • Born: Steve Vai, American guitarist, in Carle Place, New York
  • Died: Ernest L. Blumenschein, 86, American painter

June 7, 1960 (Tuesday)

June 8, 1960 (Wednesday)

Dr. Neto
  • Dr. Agostinho Neto, leader of the MPLA in Portuguese West Africa (now Angola), was arrested by colonial authorities at his clinic at Catete, and charged with subversion by colonial authorities. Dr. Neto would later be released, and, in 1975, would become the first President of Angola.[23]
  • In the Saskatchewan election, Tommy Douglas's Co-operative Commonwealth Federation won a fifth consecutive majority. The election was significant as the first in which the province's Indians had voted.[24]
  • Born: Mick Hucknall, English rock singer and songwriter (Simply Red), in Denton

June 9, 1960 (Thursday)

June 10, 1960 (Friday)

  • Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashed into the ocean off of Mackay, Queensland, while making its approach from Brisbane, killing all 29 people.[27] The crash of the Fokker F-27 remains the worst loss of life in a civilian air crash in Australia; a 1943 crash of a B-17 bomber killed 40 people.
  • Earlier in the day, all 31 persons aboard Aeroflot Flight 207 were killed in the Soviet Union on an Ilyushin 14P that had departed Rostov in the Russian SFSR with four scheduled stops and a final destination of Tbilisi in the Georgian SSR. After takeoff from Sochi (in Russia) on a short flight to Kutaisi (in Georgia) and impacted at Mount Rech in the Caucasus Mountains.[28]
  • In Tokyo, President Eisenhower's Press Secretary, James C. Hagerty, appointments secretary Thomas E. Stephens, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II had their car surrounded by an angry mob, and were trapped inside for an hour and a half before a U.S. Marine helicopter rescued them. Eisenhower set off on his tour of the Far East the next day and refused to postpone his trip to Japan.[29]
  • June 10, 1960, had been the scheduled date for President Eisenhower to arrive in Moscow to begin a tour of the Soviet Union, but the plans were cancelled in May 1960 following the U-2 Incident.

June 11, 1960 (Saturday)

June 12, 1960 (Sunday)

  • Elections began in Lebanon, and for the first time, the secret ballot was made available to voters, a reform implemented after the 1957 elections were tainted with fraud.[32] Voting for the 99 member parliament, which reserved 55 seats for Christians and 44 for Moslems, was conducted over four Sundays. Saeb Salam, leader of the Phalangists (Kataeb Party), became Prime Minister in August.
  • Born: Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer, in Paris

June 13, 1960 (Monday)

  • A Japanese midget submarine that had been sunk by depth charges near Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was discovered after more than 18 years. The two-man I-18 was raised by the USS Current on July 6 and then returned to Japan.[33]

June 14, 1960 (Tuesday)

  • Pacific Northern Airlines Flight 201 flew into the side of Mount Gilbert (Alaska), killing all 14 people on board.[34]
  • Died: Ana Pauker, 67, former Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1947 to 1952) and the first woman to serve as a foreign minister of any nation

June 15, 1960 (Wednesday)

  • The eight-month-long strike by the Writers Guild of America ended with a settlement that the writers would later regret, with the right to residuals on old films being given up in return for health and pension benefits.[35]
  • Thousands of protesters in Japan, angry over Japan's ratification of the security treaty with the United States, stormed into the parliament building and clashed with police. One female student, Michiko Kamba, was killed, and more than 600 students were injured. Nationwide, and estimated 5.8 million people participated in demonstrations.[36] U.S. President Eisenhower cancelled a planned (June 19) visit to Tokyo at the request of Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi.[7]
  • BC Ferries, the second largest ferry operator in the world, started service with two ships, the M.V. Tsawwassen and the M.V. Sidney, operating between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay.[37]
  • A heat burst occurred near the resort of Lake Whitney, Texas, shortly after midnight, followed by a windstorm. Despite later claims that, from 80 degrees, "the temperature rose to nearly 140 °F",[38] contemporary accounts at the time reported a peak of 95°.[39]

June 16, 1960 (Thursday)

  • Portuguese colonial troops killed more than 600 Mozambican people as they fired into a crowd of black Africans who were protesting for the independence of Portuguese East Africa. In 1975, Portugal would finally allow the nation to become independent as Mozambique.[40]
  • The proposed 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution was approved by the U.S. Senate, two days after it had passed the House, and submitted to the states for ratification. Sponsored by Congressman Emanuel Cellar of New York, the amendment granted the District of Columbia three electoral votes, allowing D.C. residents to vote in presidential elections, and was ratified by March 29, 1961.[41]
  • Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins as the killer at the Bates Motel, had its premiere, at two cinemas in New York City, the DeMille and the Baronet.[42]
  • Born: Peter Sterling ("Sterlo"), Australian rugby league star, in Toowoomba, Queensland

June 17, 1960 (Friday)

June 18, 1960 (Saturday)

  • The Middleton Railway, at Leeds in England, became the first standard gauge line to be operated by volunteers.[47]
  • "Freedomland", a theme park designed in the shape of the United States and billed (until a lawsuit) as "Disneyland of the East", was dedicated in the Bronx, and opened the next day.[48]
  • The first commencement of the University of Waterloo was held.[49]

June 19, 1960 (Sunday)

  • In Moscow, KGB Chairman Aleksandr Shelepin secretly delivered a report to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, warning that, according to KGB sources in the U.S., "the chiefs at the Pentagon are hoping to launch a preventive war against the Soviet Union". Relying on the misinformed report, Khrushchev publicly stated ten days later that the Soviets would use their own missiles if the U.S. attempted to invade Cuba.[50]
  • Peñarol, the champion of Uruguay's soccer football league, won the first Copa de Campeones of South America, playing a 1 to 1 draw against Paraguayan champion Club Olimpia in Asunción, a week after a 1 to 0 win over Olimpia in Montevideo. With the award of the cup (now referred to as the Copa Libertadores based upon the aggregate score, Peñarol had an overall 2 to 1 win in the competition among the 1959 champions of ten South American nations.
  • The Charlotte Motor Speedway opened in Concord, North Carolina, and hosted the first World 600 NASCAR race. Joe Lee Johnson won the first running of the 600.[51]
  • On his tour of the Far East, U.S. President Eisenhower encountered his first hostile reception, while visiting the island of Okinawa. A crowd of 1,500 protesters demonstrated in favor of the island's return from U.S. administration to Japan.[7]
  • Died:

June 20, 1960 (Monday)

  • At New York's Polo Grounds, a crowd of 31,892 watched Floyd Patterson became the first person to regain the world heavyweight boxing championship. In the fifth round, Patterson knocked out champion Ingemar Johansson with a powerful left hook that left the Swedish boxer unconscious for ten minutes. Johansson then walked out under his own power.[56]
  • The Mali Federation, created in 1959 by a merger of the French Sudan and Senegal, was granted independence by France. Modibo Keïta was head of the Federation, and Léopold Sédar Senghor was Speaker of the National Assembly.[57] The Federation existed for two months, until Senegal (led by Senghor), seceded on August 20. The former French Sudan then became the Republic of Mali, with Keita as its President.
  • Nan Winton became the first national female newsreader on BBC television.
  • Died:

June 21, 1960 (Tuesday)

June 22, 1960 (Wednesday)

Lesage

June 23, 1960 (Thursday)

Kishi
Ikeda
  • On the day that the unpopular U.S.-Japan Security Treaty went into effect, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi announced his resignation. Kishi was replaced by Ikeda Hayato.[63]
  • Rival Congolese leaders Joseph Kasavubu and Patrice Lumumba agreed to share power, with Kasavubu to become the former Belgian colony's first President, and Lumumba to become the nation's first Prime Minister.[64]
  • Enovid, the first FDA approved contraceptive drug, became available in pill form at pharmacies throughout the United States.[65]

June 24, 1960 (Friday)

  • Romulo Betancourt, the President of Venezuela, was injured in an assassination attempt that was later traced back to Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. As the presidential limousine drove through Caracas on Avenida de los Proceres, a bomb concealed inside a parked 1954 Oldsmobile was detonated. A bystander, and Betancourt's aide, Ramon Armas Perez, were fatally injured.[66]
  • The Romance of Helen Trent, which had been a daytime soap opera on the CBS Radio Network since its debut on October 30, 1933, was broadcast for the 7,222nd and last time, ending a run of almost 27 years.[67]
  • All 54 people on board a Brazilian airliner, operated by REAL Transportes Aéreos were killed when the Convair CV-340 plane plunged into the sea while making its approach to Rio de Janeiro after a flight from Belo Horizonte.[68]
  • Born:

June 25, 1960 (Saturday)

  • The first talks between the government of France and the leadership of the Algerian rebel group, the FLN, took place in the Parisian suburb of Melun.[69]
  • William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two cryptologists with the National Security Agency, departed the United States for a vacation in Mexico, then flew the next day to Cuba and defected to the Soviet Union.[70]
  • Died: Sudhindranath Dutta, 59, Bengali Indian poet

June 26, 1960 (Sunday)

June 27, 1960 (Monday)

June 28, 1960 (Tuesday)

June 29, 1960 (Wednesday)

  • Cuba nationalized the Texaco oil refinery in Santiago de Cuba, after the corporation refused to process Soviet petroleum. The seizure of Esso of Cuba and Shell Oil refineries followed two days later.[7][79]
  • The first weather satellite, TIROS, was shut down by NASA after 78 days, 1,302 orbits, and almost 23,000 weather photos.[80]
  • The BBC Television Centre was opened in London.[81]

June 30, 1960 (Thursday)

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