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

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

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

In 1960, David Berlo expanded on Shannon and Weaver's ( 1949 ) linear model of communication and created the SMCR Model of Communication.

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

File: David Eisenhower in Camp David. jpg | David Eisenhower ( age 12 ), grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, poses with sign at presidential retreat named in his honor, 1960

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

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.

* 1960 – David Baerwald American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( David & David )

* 1960 – David Marciano, American actor

* 1960 – David James Elliott, Canadian actor

* 1960 – David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven )

* 1960 – David Steele, English bass player and songwriter ( The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals )

* In the 1960 Cold War novel Village of Stars by David Beaty ( writing as Paul Stanton ), an RAF V-bomber of the fictional Venger type is sent to drop a nuclear bomb on a rebel force in the Middle East.

He was a frequent interviewer with Bob Clark on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 but was revamped and renamed in 1981 as This Week with David Brinkley.

UPI reporters and photographers have won ten Pulitzer Prizes: Russell Jones ( International Reporting, 1957 ), Andrew Lopez ( News Photography, 1960 ), Yasushi Nagao ( News Photography, 1961 ), Merriman Smith ( National Reporting, 1964 ), Kyoichi Sawada ( News Photography, 1966 ), Toshio Sakai ( Feature Photography, 1968 ), Lucinda Franks and Thomas Powers ( National Reporting, 1971 ), and David Hume Kennerly ( Feature Photography, 1972 ).

( The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring Orson Welles was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of the Biblical story ).

On February 1, 1960, four students Ezell A. Blair, Jr. ( now known as Jibreel Khazan ), David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College, an all-black college, sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans.

The chess game between " Kronsteen " and " McAdams " in the early part of the James Bond movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and David Bronstein in 1960 in which Spassky (" Kronsteen ") was victorious.

* 1960 – Greg Thomas, England cricketer

* Dylan Thomas: Quite early one morning and other memories ( Caedmon TC 1132 – 1960 )

Straddle-jumper Charles Dumas was the first to clear 2. 13 m ( or 7 feet ) in 1956, and American John Thomas pushed the world mark to in 1960.

* 1960 – Thomas Haden Church, American actor

* 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

Motown Records had its first million-selling single in 1960 with The Miracles ' " Shop Around ", and in 1961, Stax Records had its first hit with Carla Thomas ' " Gee Whiz!

" Jakobson's theory of communicative functions was first published in " Closing Statements: Linguistics and Poetics " ( in Thomas A. Sebeok, Style In Language, Cambridge Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1960, pp. 350 – 377 ).

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The 20th-century agnostic playwright Robert Bolt portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Seasons.

It was during that break that he and his son Thomas produced his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, which was published in 1960.

He appeared on Broadway to great acclaim in Becket, as King Henry II to Laurence Olivier's Thomas Becket in 1960.

) ( 1960 ): " Letters of Thomas Wood, Puritan, 1566 – 1577 " Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research Special Supplement No. 5 November 1960

The Defense Communications Agency ( DCA ) was established May 12, 1960 by then-Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates.

Through his career, Ammann was the recipient of several awards including the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize ( 1919 ), the Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year ( 1958 ), the Ernest E. Howard Award ( 1960 ) and the National Medal of Science ( 1964 ).

In 1960, Howard was cast as Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show, a spin-off of The Danny Thomas Show.

* 1960 — Thomas Matthews determines the radio position of the 3C source 3C 48 to within 5 ",

Highlights of his career in modern theatre include the roles of Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 ), Charles Dyer in Dyer's play Staircase, staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, the definitive Laurie in John Osborne's A Hotel in Amsterdam ( 1968 ), and Antonio Salieri in the original stage production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus ( 1979 ).

The original Broadway production premiered on 5 October 1960 at the St. James Theatre in a production by David Merrick, directed by Peter Glenville and starring Laurence Olivier as Thomas Becket and Anthony Quinn as King Henry II.

In 1960, Priestley published Literature and Western Man, a 500-page survey of Western literature in all its genres, including Russia and the United States but excluding Asia, from the second half of the 15th century to the present ( the last author discussed is Thomas Wolfe ).

Climatron | The Climatron greenhouse at Missouri Botanical Gardens, built in 1960 and designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc., inspired the domes in the science fiction movie Silent Running.

* A Man for All Seasons ( 1960 )-as mentioned above, involves Sir Thomas More's conflict with Henry VIII over his break with the Catholic Church.

* His Greatest Hits ( 1960 )-First album to feature multi-instrumentalist Morgan Thomas.