May 1960.
Since May 1960 passed approximately Seven Hundred and Eight months (707.8). 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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