* J. L. Austin ( 1911 – 1960 ), British philosopher

Albert Camus (; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 ) was an algerian born author, journalist, and philosopher.

* 1895 – Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist

* 1960 – Warren Haynes, American guitarist and songwriter ( The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, and The Dead )

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1960 – Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1925 – Johnny Horton, American singer and musician ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – Kerry Healey, American politician

* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology

* 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

* 1960 – Dale Ellis, American basketball player

* 1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.

* 1960 – Koji Kondo, Japanese composer

* 1960 – Phil Taylor, English darts player

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* 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer ( d. 1960 )

* 1960 – Linda Fratianne, American figure skater

* 1960 – Neal Morse, American singer and keyboardist ( Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Yellow Matter Custard, and Flying Colors )

* 1960 – David Yow, American singer-songwriter ( Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, and Qui )

* 1960 – Dahomey ( later renamed Benin ) declares independence from France.

* 1960 – Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.

* 1960 – Chuck D, American rapper, producer, and author ( Public Enemy )

* 1960 – Suzi Gardner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist and songwriter ( L7 )

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

NASA launched an Echo satellite in 1960 ; the aluminized PET film balloon served as a passive reflector for radio communications.

Recognition of the Sierra Club's role in the Echo Park dam victory boosted membership from 10, 000 in 1956 to 15, 000 in 1960.

" On 28 September 1960 German newspapers Hamburger Echo and Der Spiegel published excerpts of Merten's deposition to the German authorities where Merten claimed that Karamanlis, the then Minister for the Interior Takos Makris and his wife Doxoula ( whom he described as Karamanlis's niece ) along with then Deputy Minister of Defense George Themelis were informers during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

Horne was married from 1960 to 1979 ( separated 1974 ) to the conductor Henry Lewis, with whom she maintained a home in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles for many years, and with whom she had a daughter, Angela.

Scale prototype of the Echo satellite undergoing a Skin Stress Test on May 1, 1960.

Following the failure of the Delta rocket carrying Echo 1 on May 13, 1960, Echo 1A ( commonly referred to as just Echo 1 ) was put successfully into a 944 to 1, 048 mi orbit by another Thor-Delta and a microwave transmission from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California was received at Bell Laboratories in Homdel, New Jersey on August 12, 1960.

The U. S. Post office issued a postage stamp commemorating Project Echo on December 15, 1960.

Named after the 1960 short story " The Day the Icicle Works Closed " by science fiction author Frederik Pohl, The Icicle Works joined Liverpool's early 1980s ' neo-psychedelia ' wave, which also propelled Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes to stardom.

This was accomplished effective July 1, 1960, when 4, 670 civilian employees, about $ 100 million worth of buildings and equipment, and of land transferred from RSA / ABMA's Development Operations Division to NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ).

This was accomplished effective July 1, 1960, when 4, 670 civilian employees, about $ 100 million worth of buildings and equipment, and of land transferred from AOMC / ABMA to NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center.

By a presidential executive order on 15 March 1960, ABMA became NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ).

The test took place at NASA's Wallops Island, Virginia, test facility on May 9, 1960.

Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs, often referred to as " the Brookings Report ", was commissioned by NASA and created by the Brookings Institution in collaboration with NASA's Committee on Long Range Studies in 1960.

February's volume was 1 per cent above January's for the first pickup since last October, although it's still 1.5 per cent off from February 1960.

The first report in this continuing series appeared in the September 1960 issue of the Journal.

Under this Agreement the first annual review of rice availabilities will be made in August 1960.

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.

The first test mailing ( to 14 companies ) was made in June, 1960.

The first section of this publication appeared in 1948 and the last supplement in 1960.

Tonight at 8 o'clock the Cardinals, who gave the Pirates as much trouble as anyone did in 1960, breaking even with them, will get their first 1961 shot at baseball's world champions.

In the first two months of 1961, earnings of the Illinois highway available for interest payments were up 55 per cent from early 1960.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

* 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.

The concept and theory of Kolmogorov Complexity is based on a crucial theorem first discovered by Ray Solomonoff, who published it in 1960, describing it in " A Preliminary Report on a General Theory of Inductive Inference " as part of his invention of algorithmic probability.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

Ajax achieved their first Eredivisie championship in 1957 and again in 1960.

Their first honour outside of Italy was recorded in 1960 – 61 when Roma won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by beating Birmingham City 4 – 2 in the finals.

In 1960, it produced the first transistor television in the world.

* 1960 – The U. S. Navy submarine completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide ( Librium ), was discovered accidentally by Leo Sternbach in 1955, and made available in 1960 by Hoffmann – La Roche, which has also marketed diazepam ( Valium ) since 1963.

Russian demographer Boris Urlanis estimated in Voini I Narodo-Nacelenie Europi ( 1960 ) that in the first and second Balkan wars there were 122, 000 killed in action, 20, 000 dead of wounds, and 82, 000 dead of disease.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

The working of the Cypriot state was fraught with difficulty from the very early days after independence in 1960, and intercommunal tension and occasionally violence was, regrettably, a feature of the first decade of Cypriot independence.