May 1960.
Since May 1960 passed approximately Six Hundred and Eigthy-Nine months (688.9). This May started with Sunday (17. week) and ended with Tuesday (22. week). This May had 31 days and 5 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for May 1960.
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Events occurred in May 1960
We found 83 events occured in May month in 1960.
• 1960. May 1 (Category: Births), Steve Cauthen, American jockey
• 1960. May 1 (Category: Deaths), Charles Holden, British architect (b. 1875)
• 1960. May 1 (Category: Events), Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
• 1960. May 1 (Category: Events), Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
• 1960. May 2 (Category: Births), Stephen Daldry, English director
• 1960. May 2 (Category: Deaths), Caryl Chessman, American convicted robber and rapist (b. 1921)
• 1960. May 3 (Category: Births), Amy Steel, American actress
• 1960. May 3 (Category: Events), The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 1960. May 3 (Category: Events), The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
• 1960. May 4 (Category: Births), Andrew Denton, Australian television producer and comedian
• 1960. May 4 (Category: Births), Werner Faymann, Austrian politician, Chancellor of Austria
• 1960. May 5 (Category: Births), Jeremy Wade, English biologist
• 1960. May 6 (Category: Births), Anne Parillaud, French actress
• 1960. May 6 (Category: Births), John Flansburgh, American musician and songwriter (They Might Be Giants and Mono Puff)
• 1960. May 6 (Category: Births), Phyllis Treigle, American soprano
• 1960. May 6 (Category: Births), Roma Downey, Irish actress
• 1960. May 6 (Category: Events), More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
• 1960. May 7 (Category: Births), Adam Bernstein, American director
• 1960. May 7 (Category: Births), Almudena Grandes, Spanish novelist
• 1960. May 7 (Category: Events), Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 1960. May 8 (Category: Births), Eric Brittingham, American bassist (Cinderella and Naked Beggars)
• 1960. May 8 (Category: Births), Franco Baresi, Italian footballer
• 1960. May 8 (Category: Deaths), J. H. C. Whitehead, English mathematician (b. 1904)
• 1960. May 9 (Category: Births), Tony Gwynn, American baseball player
• 1960. May 9 (Category: Events), FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
• 1960. May 9 (Category: Events), The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
• 1960. May 10 (Category: Births), Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, philanthropist, and activist (U2)
• 1960. May 10 (Category: Births), Dean Heller, American politician
• 1960. May 10 (Category: Births), Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-Slovenian track athlete
• 1960. May 10 (Category: Deaths), Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
• 1960. May 10 (Category: Events), The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1960. May 11 (Category: Births), Gildor Roy, French-Canadian actor and singer
• 1960. May 11 (Category: Deaths), John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1960. May 11 (Category: Events), In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
• 1960. May 12 (Category: Births), Ian Khan, English race car driver
• 1960. May 12 (Category: Births), Paul Arcand, Canadian journalist and director
• 1960. May 13 (Category: Events), Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
• 1960. May 14 (Category: Births), Anne Clark, English singer-songwriter and poet
• 1960. May 14 (Category: Births), Dr. Death Steve Williams, American wrestler (d. 2009)
• 1960. May 14 (Category: Births), Ronan Tynan, Irish tenor (The Irish Tenors)
• 1960. May 15 (Category: Births), Rhonda Burchmore, Australian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1960. May 15 (Category: Births), Rob Bowman, American director
• 1960. May 15 (Category: Events), The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
• 1960. May 16 (Category: Births), Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician
• 1960. May 16 (Category: Events), Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
• 1960. May 17 (Category: Births), Lou DiBella, American boxing promoter
• 1960. May 18 (Category: Births), Brent Ashton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960. May 18 (Category: Births), Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1960. May 18 (Category: Births), Yannick Noah, French tennis player
• 1960. May 19 (Category: Births), Yazz, English singer and model
• 1960. May 20 (Category: Births), John Billingsley, American actor
• 1960. May 20 (Category: Births), Tony Goldwyn, American actor
• 1960. May 21 (Category: Births), Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1960. May 21 (Category: Births), Jeffrey Toobin, American writer and analyst
• 1960. May 21 (Category: Births), Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
• 1960. May 21 (Category: Births), Mohanlal, Indian actor
• 1960. May 21 (Category: Births), Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer
• 1960. May 22 (Category: Births), Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
• 1960. May 22 (Category: Events), An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
• 1960. May 23 (Category: Births), Linden Ashby, American actor
• 1960. May 23 (Category: Deaths), Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870)
• 1960. May 24 (Category: Births), Doug Jones, American actor
• 1960. May 24 (Category: Births), Guy Fletcher, English musician and producer (Dire Straits and The Notting Hillbillies)
• 1960. May 24 (Category: Births), Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
• 1960. May 24 (Category: Deaths), Avraham Arnon, Israeli educator, recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1887)
• 1960. May 24 (Category: Events), Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
• 1960. May 25 (Category: Births), Amy Klobuchar, American politician
• 1960. May 25 (Category: Births), Anthea Turner, English journalist and television host
• 1960. May 26 (Category: Births), Doug Hutchison, American actor
• 1960. May 26 (Category: Births), Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese race car driver
• 1960. May 26 (Category: Births), Rob Murphy, American baseball player
• 1960. May 27 (Category: Births), Gaston Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1960. May 27 (Category: Deaths), James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1960. May 27 (Category: Events), In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
• 1960. May 28 (Category: Births), Mark Sanford, American politician, 115th Governor of South Carolina
• 1960. May 29 (Category: Births), Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist and television host
• 1960. May 29 (Category: Births), Neil Crone, Canadian actor
• 1960. May 30 (Category: Deaths), Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1960. May 31 (Category: Births), Chris Elliott, American actor, comedian, and writer
• 1960. May 31 (Category: Births), Greg Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960. May 31 (Category: Births), Peter Winterbottom, English Rugby player
• 1960. May 31 (Category: Deaths), Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
• 1960. May 31 (Category: Deaths), Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882)
Calendar May 1960.
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