Here We Go!
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Here We Go!
1960
Richard Nixon is Vice President of the United States
Miss America is Lynda Mead of Natchez, MS
Etch-a-Sketch debuts
First retirement city, Sun City, opens outside of Phoenix
Milton Bradley introduces the game of LIFE
First weather satellite, Tiros I, is launched
The first laser is invented by Gourdon Gould
Month-by-Month...
January - Elvis Presley promoted to sergeant in US Army
February - Students engage in a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Winston-Salem NC
March - President Eisenhower requests congress to double the number of immigrants alloowed into the country
April - Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd Masters with a 282
May - FDA approves the Pill
June - RhinoDawg is born!
July - Kennedy wins democratic nomination; Nixon wins Republican nod
August - Wilma Rudolph wins 3 Olympic gold medals
September - Emily Post dies
October - A grand jury finds the TV game show Twenty-One is rigged
November - Kennedy wins presidency by less than 200,000 popular votes (49.72% to Nixon's 49.55%)
December - Washington Senators join the American League
And in other news...
Construction begins on the Berlin Wall
Soviet misslies shooot down a U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers - side note; Powers received his primary jet fighter training several years earlier at Greenville Air Foce Base in Greenville, MS
Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco
France becomes the 4th nation to acquire the nuclear bomb
First televised presidential debates are broadcast
Harper Lee publishes "To Kill A Mockingbird"
The 50 star American flag makes its debut in Philadelphia on the 4th of July
Eisenhower warns against the "military-industrial complex" in his farewell address
Ethiopian Abebe Bilila wins the Olympic marathon runnning barefoot
Bye-Bye Birdie, The Fantasticks and Camelot premiere on Broadway
The Beatles give their first public performance in Hamburg, Germany
"Stay" by Maurice William and the Zodiacs, "It's Now or Never" by Elvis, "Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles, "Only the Lonely" by Roy Orbison and "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" by Brian Hyland debut
Movies West Side Strory, Psycho, Elmer Gantry, The Magnificent Seven and Spartacus hit the big screen
The Apartment wins the Oscar for best picture, the last black and white movie to do so until Schindler's List in 1993
HOW MUCH???
New house - $12,675
New Car - $2,610
Harvard Tuition - $1,250/year
Gasoline - $0.25/gallon
Postage Stamp - $0.04
Average Income - $5,199/year
The Wide World of Sports...
Stanley Cup Champion - Montreal Canadiens
Kentucky Derby Winner - Venetian Way
World Series Champs - Pittsburgh Pirates
Indy 500 Winner - Jim Rathmann (138.767 mph)
Pro Football Champs - Philadelphia Eagles and Houston Oilers
NCAA Basketball Champs - Ohio State
Heisman Trophy Winner - Joe Bellino of Navy
College Football Champs - Minnesota and Mississippi
CBS is the first network to broadcast the Olympics (Winter Games - Squaw Valley, CA; Summer Games - Rome, Italy), Jim McKay moderates both broadcasts
The Flintstones and The Andy Griffith Show premiere on TV
The Howdy Doody show is cancelled
And last, but certainly not leastest, did I mention...
RhinoDawg is Born!
So nothing much happened in 1960
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