* 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 )

The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident which occurred on 24 October 1960 at Baikonur test range ( of which Baikonur Cosmodrome is a part ), during the development of the Soviet ICBM R-16.

Nedelin Disaster ( 1960 )

During a test of the R-16 ICBM on October 24, 1960, the test missile exploded on the pad, killing the first commander of the SRF, Chief Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin.

The second worst disaster was the Nedelin catastrophe which occurred in the Soviet Union on October 24, 1960, when an R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile exploded on the launch pad, killing around 120 ( best estimate ) military ground support personnel.

Yangel narrowly avoided death during the development of the R-16 in the 1960 Nedelin catastrophe.

From the mid 50's he moved into singularity theory, of which catastrophe theory is just one aspect, and in a series of deep ( and at the time obscure ) papers between 1960 and 1969 developed the theory of stratified sets and stratified maps, proving a basic stratified isotopy theorem describing the local conical structure of Whitney stratified sets, now known as the Thom-Mather isotopy theorem.

An honor guard at the tomb for those killed during the test R-16 October 24, 1960, the city of Baikonur.

* 1960 – a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.

Forty days later, the Soviet Union made its first successful underwater launch of a submarine ballistic missile in the White Sea on 10 September 1960 from the same converted Project 611 ( Zulu Class ) submarine that first launched the R-11FM ( SS-N-1 Scud-A, naval modification of SS-1 Scud ) on 16 September 1955.

Macmillan cancelled the Blue Streak ballistic missile system in April 1960 over concerns about its vulnerability to a pre-emptive attack, but continued with the development of the air launched Blue Steel stand-off bomb, which was about to enter trials.

The British Blue Streak ballistic missile was cancelled in 1960, when it was realised it could not compete with the types of missile that the Americans or Russians were building.

The, the first ballistic missile submarine, was commissioned December 30, 1959, fired its first test missile July 20, 1960, and departed on the Navy's first deterrent patrol on November 15, 1960.

* USS Ethan Allen ( SSBN-608 ) ( 1960 – 1983 ), U. S. Navy ballistic missile submarine ( SSBN-608 )

On the other hand, the new authority of $3,825 million proposed for missile procurement ( excluding research and construction ) in 1961 is $581 million higher than for 1960.

Research, development test and evaluation funds, devoted to missiles in 1960 were 3 to 4 times as large as those devoted to aircraft, and actual missile procurement is expected to exceed aircraft procurement by 1963.

In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president after a campaign that promised American superiority over the Soviet Union in the fields of space exploration and missile defense.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

* ASM-N-8 Corvus, a nuclear armed air-to-surface missile developed by the United States Navy, 1955 – 1960

When Kennedy ran for president in 1960, one of his key election issues was an alleged " missile gap ", with the Soviets leading.

Powers ’ U-2, which departed from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan and may have received support from the US Air Station at Badaber ( Peshawar Airbase ), was shot down by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Surface to Air ) missile on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk.

* 1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.

However, the 1960 shootdown of a CIA U-2 by an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile ( SAM ) while on a clandestine reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union suddenly complicated the introduction of these new aircraft.

Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

U. S. Honest John missile warhead cutaway, showing M134 bomblet | M134 Sarin bomblets ( c. 1960 )

In 1960, Kuybyshev became the missile shield center for the country.

Titan I missile emerges from its silo at Vandenberg Operational System Test Facility in 1960

Designated " OSTF-8 ", the facility was destroyed on 3 December 1960 when the launcher elevator failed while lowering a fully fueled missile back into the silo.