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In 1960 UNESCO launched a massive effort to do as much archaeological work as possible before the flooding occurred.
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In the same year he produced a musique concrète piece, Concret PH, for the Philips Pavilion, and in 1960 Xenakis was well-known enough to receive a commission from UNESCO, for a soundtrack for a documentary film by Enrico Fulchignoni.
It owes its current status on France's Tentative List for future nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage site to the enthusiasm of writer, resistance fighter and politician André Malraux, who, as Minister of Culture ( 1960 – 1969 ), restored the town and many other sites of historic significance throughout France.
Benelli was then appointed to the following posts: auditor of nunciature to Brazil ( 1960 – 1962 ), counsellor of nunciature to Spain ( 1962 – 1965 ), and permanent observer of Holy See before UNESCO in Paris ( 1965 – 1966 ).
Works of note include a Poem for 22 Strings ( 1950 ), premiered at Darmstadt, a Gogol opera, The Diary of a Madman ( 1958, awarded the first prize at UNESCO ’ s International Rostrum of Composers in 1960 ), and five symphonies ( the first of which was commercially recorded by Sir Adrian Boult ).
* Muzyka na smyczki, trąbki i perkusję ( Music for Strings, Trumpets, and Percussion ) ( 1958 )-3rd Prize, Tribune Internationale ( UNESCO ), Paris 1960
* 1960: III deposit at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris for Music for strings, trumpet and percussion
IFIP was established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, originally under the name International Federation of Information Processing Societies ( IFIPS ).
In 1960 UNESCO started a project to try to save the buildings on the island from the destructive effect of the ever increasing waters of the Nile.
After receiving a UNESCO award in 1960, he studied for 2 years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
With Mali's independence in 1960, Bâ founded the Institute of Human Sciences in Bamako, and represented his country at the UNESCO general conferences.
After Macnair died in 1959, Livesay worked for UNESCO in Paris, and then in Northern Rhodesia ( now Zambia ) as a field worker from 1960 to 1963.
In 1960 he immigrated to Paris where he worked as a journalist in France Presse and then as cultural advisor and ambassador to UNESCO.
In 1960, due to the construction of the Great Dam of Aswan and the consequent threat posed to several monuments and archeological sites, UNESCO made an international call to save this rich historical legacy.
1960 and launched
* Pioneer 5 ( Pioneer P-2, Thor-Able 4, Pioneer V ) – interplanetary space between Earth and Venus, launched March 11, 1960
Prior to a manned spaceflight, the Soviets launched several precursor unmanned missions between May 1960 and March 1961, to test and develop the Vostok rocket and Vostok spacecraft technology.
NASA launched an Echo satellite in 1960 ; the aluminized PET film balloon served as a passive reflector for radio communications.
Courier 1B, built by Philco, also launched in 1960, was the world ’ s first active repeater satellite.
The Mars program was a series of unmanned spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973.
Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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.
On 11 November 1960, Colonels Vương Văn Đông and Nguyễn Chánh Thi launched a coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm, but after surrounding the palace, they stopped attacking and decided to negotiate a power-sharing agreement.
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.
Sun City was launched January 1, 1960, with five home models, a shopping center, a recreation center, and a golf course.
A second satellite, Transit 1B, was successfully launched April 13, 1960, by a Thor-Ablestar rocket.
It was launched by NASA and partners at 6: 40 AM EST on April 1, 1960 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the United States.
The last liner that the company launched was the MV Arlanza for Royal Mail Line in 1960, whilst the last liner completed was the SS Canberra for P & O in 1961.
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