Love Me Do [A 1960s and Beyond ATL]

January 19-21, 1960
Tuesday, January 19, 1960
  • The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan was signed at the White House by U.S. President Eisenhower and Japan's Prime Minister Kishi. Whether or not Japan's National Diet would ratify the unpopular treaty is another matter.
Wednesday, January 20, 1960
  • Miss Sam, a rhesus monkey, was launched on board the rocket Little Joe 1B from Wallops Island, Virginia, reaching an altitude of about 50,000 feet before crashing in the nearby Chesapeake Bay nine minutes after launch. Miss Sam did not survive the impact.
Thursday, January 21, 1960
  • The Soviet Union successfully test-fires the first ICBM, which explodes on impact on the waters of the North Pacific Ocean at about 2:00 A.M. Moscow time.
 
January 22-24, 1960
Friday, January 22, 1960
  • French President de Gaulle fires Major General Massu from his post, following the latter criticizing the former in a German newspaper interview. European Algerians are outraged.
  • Sugar Ray Robinson maintains his world middleweight boxing title after defeating Paul Bender by fifteen points.
Saturday, January 23, 1960
  • Undersea explorer Jacques Piccard, along with US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, descend into the Mariana Trench only to be never heard from again.
  • As many as 10,000 European residents in Algeria, including members of the French home guard, barricade portions of the city of Algiers and withdrew behind them. This begins a siege that may last for who knows how long...
Sunday, January 24, 1960
  • Japanese author Ashihei Hino commits suicide.
  • Local Algerian police clashes with the demonstrators who are currently besieging the Algerian capital, killing around 12 people and injuring around 70 more.
 
January 25-27, 1960
Monday, January 25, 1960
  • Belgium agreed to grant its colony, the Belgian Congo, independence, setting the date to be July 30, and letting elections be held in June.
Tuesday, January 26, 1960
  • After 22 ballots to select the new National Football League Commissioner, Marshall Leahy had the ten out of twelve votes that he needed to be elected.
Wednesday, January 27, 1960
  • Following Japan's signing of the new security treaty with the United States, the Soviet Union announced that it was cancelling plans to return the island of Hamobai to the Japanese.
 
January 28-30, 1960
Thursday, January 28, 1960
  • China and Burma sign an agreement specifying the borders between their nations.
Friday, January 29, 1960
  • Facing a challenge from the rebelling European settlers in Algeria, France's President Charles de Gaulle made a televised address to the people of France, stating that he would not give in to the settlers and directed the Army to end the rebellion. About two-thirds of the French Army heeded his call to do so, with the final third either reluctant or sympathetic with the Algerian settlers.
Saturday, January 30, 1960
  • J.C. Kumarappa, the "father of Ghandian economics", dies.
 
January 31-February 2, 1960
Sunday, January 31, 1960
  • At Port Tawfiq, a skirmish between soldiers from both Israel and Syria (currently part of the United Arab Republic) leaves 14 Syrians and 9 Israelis dead. Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of the UAR, sends Egyptian troops back into the Sinai in response.
Monday, February 1, 1960
  • In Greensboro, North Carolina, three black students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University began a sit-in at a Woolworth's department store lunch counter. They politely placed orders for coffee, and when they were refused, they stayed until closing time.
  • William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, is appointed 14th Governor-General of Australia by the recommendation of Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
Tuesday, February 2, 1960
  • The Hindu Teacher Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja dies.
 
01-30-1960 (MAP)
THE WORLD, AS OF JANUARY 30, 1960:
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February 3-5, 1960
Wednesday, February 3, 1960
  • Before a session of the South African Parliament, British Prime Minister Macmillan makes the "Winds of Change" speech, telling the all-white assembly that "The winds of change are blowing through this continent, and whether any of us like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact."
  • The French Senate votes 206-59 to allow President Charles de Gaulle to rule by decree in order to dismantle the power of French settlers in Algeria. The National Assembly had approved the measure the day before, with a vote of 423-93. "We almost saw a collapse of the Republic this week," Prime Minister Michel Debre told the senators in an attempt to get them to pass it.
  • U.S. President Eisenhower announced at a news conference that the United States of America should make nuclear weapons available to its allies. He urged the amending of the Atomic Energy Act in order to permit the U.S. to do this.
  • Italian comedian Fred Buscaglione is tragically shot and killed while riding in his car by a man working for the Sicilian mafia. His whimsical portrayal of mobsters in film would be later attributed as to why he was murdered.
Thursday, February 4, 1960
  • After a brief interview, French President de Gaulle fires Jacques Soustelle from his position as Deputy Prime Minister for Algeria. He was the first of the French Algerians to be dismissed as part of de Gaulle's rule by decree.
  • Communist leader of Cuba, Fidel Castro, welcomes Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan as the beginning of a state visit to Cuba.
Friday, February 5, 1960
  • The CERN particle accelerator is inaugurated in Geneva, Switzerland.
 
February 6-8, 1960
Saturday, February 6, 1960
  • In the first elections in Burma since the military coup two years prior, former Prime Minister U Nu's party captures 140 of the 250 contested seats. He is set to take office on April 11.
  • Jesse Belvin, African-American singer/songwriter, is almost killed in an auto accident four hours after preforming in a concert with Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson. He recovers nearly unscathed.
Sunday, February 7, 1960
  • About twenty people are killed and forty more injured in a railroad derailment near Sewell, Chile.
  • Igor Kurchatov, nuclear physicist and father of the Soviet atomic bomb project, dies of a cardiac embolism.
Monday, February 8, 1960
  • The Hollywood Walk of Fame begins.
  • Amon Ndoffu II, King of Sanwi, declares an independent kingdom six months before the French colony of Côte d'Ivoire was scheduled to become an independent nation. He is murdered later that day when Ivorian troops attempt to arrest him along with his Prime Minister.
 
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