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In 1960, three years later, began the 36-year Guatemalan Civil War ( 1960 – 96 ), featuring brutal counterinsurgency operations and massacres that conflated historical ethnic conflict between ladino ( mestizo ) Guatemalans and ethnic Maya Guatemalans, who were accused of being either communists or “ fellow travellers ”, passive communist sympathizers.
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Of the major expansions in 1960, three were financed under the R. I. Industrial Building Authority's 100% guaranteed mortgage plan: Collyer Wire, Leesona Corporation, and American Tube & Controls.
This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane, fought less than three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days ( December 9-11, 1960 ).
Total farm output for this year is officially forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 average, three points higher than the July 1 estimate and exactly equal to the final figure for 1960.
But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.
* 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
Among the country ’ s five presidents since independence in 1960, three have been former army chiefs-of-staff, who have taken power through coups d ’ état.
Nonetheless, in 1960, the Browns dropped three games by a total of 10 points, finished with an 8-3-1 record and out of the playoffs for the second consecutive season.
The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.
The two teams met in the first regular season game the Cowboys ever played in 1960 ( a 35 – 28 loss to the Steelers ), the first-ever regular season victory for the expansion Cowboys in 1961, and would later meet in three Super Bowls, all of them closely contested events.
In 1960 DKW developed a V6 engine by combining two three cylinder two-stroke engines giving a single V6 engine with a capacity of 1, 000 cc.
* 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
* LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of New York's three major currently operating airports, bears his name ; the airport was voted the " greatest airport in the world " by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.
On August 17, 1960, Powers was convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union and was sentenced to a total of 10 years, three years in imprisonment followed by seven years of hard labor.
For three decades from 1960, Japan experienced rapid economic growth, which was referred to as the Japanese post-war economic miracle.
Bruce was a works driver for the British Formula One team Cooper with whom he had won three Grands Prix and come second in the 1960 world championship.
The Federation of Nigeria was granted full independence on the 1st October 1960 under a constitution that provided for a parliamentary government and a substantial measure of self-government for the country's three regions.
In fact, the 1960 numbers are somewhat deceptive ; of those nine hits, none were for extra bases, and three never left the infield.
In 2009, in honor of their 50th anniversary as one of the eight original AFL teams, the Chargers wore their 1960 throwback uniforms for three games.
1957 witnessed the arrival of three Bahrain princes as prisoners of Britain, who remained until released by a writ of habeas corpus in 1960.
They had three children-Laura, Seán and Síle-but divorced in 1960.
Turner has been married and divorced three times: to Judy Nye ( 1960 – 64 ), Jane Shirley Smith ( 1965 – 88 ), and actress Jane Fonda ( 1991 – 2001 ).
In 1960, after Eisenhower had made three such appointments, the Senate passed a " sense of the Senate " resolution that recess appointments to the Court should only be made in " unusual circumstances.
In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games.
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The international economy of 1960 is markedly different from that of the early postwar years.
During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 139 military and civilian students who came to the Institute for varying periods of special instruction.
During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 795,586 visitors to the Museum.
In the last few years, the application of chromatographic and other modern techniques to the problem of isolating TSH has led to further purification ( Bates and Condliffe, 1960 ; ;
Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.
* 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while The Apartment ( 1960 ), Alfie ( 1966 ) and The Graduate ( 1967 ) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.
The census in Malaysia is carried out every 10 years, like many nations, since 1960 ( with the exception of the fourth census, which was carried out in 1991 ).
The census of the Philippines is enumerated every 5 years ( beginning on 1960, except in 2005 where it was moved to 2007 due to budgetary constraints ) and the results are used to allocate Congressional seats ( congressional apportionment ) and government program funding.
) The Dallas Cowboys called the Cotton Bowl home for 11 years, from the team's formation in 1960 until 1971, when the Cowboys moved to Texas Stadium.
Day was ranked the biggest box office star for four years ( 1960 ; 1962 – 1964 ) and ranked in the top 10 for 10 years ( 1951 – 1952 ; 1959 – 1966 ).
Fannie Mae Clackum was the first service member to successfully appeal such a discharge, winning eight years of back pay from the US Court of Claims in 1960.
Previous to the 1960 change, the ' Improved Lunar Ephemeris ' had already been made available in terms of ephemeris time for the years 1952-1959 ( computed by W J Eckert from Brown's theory with modifications recommended by Clemence ( 1948 )).
During the years between 1960 and 1965, the annual rate of growth of the gross domestic product per capita was 4. 4 % in the West Pakistan versus 2. 6 % in the East Pakistan.
Futurama was an exhibit / ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes that tried to show the world 20 years into the future ( 1959 – 1960 ).
* Wilmerding, Jr., Lucius, James Monroe: Public Claimant ( 1960 ) A study regarding Monroe's attempts to get reimbursement for personal expenses and losses from his years in public service after his Presidency ended.
* 1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
A member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ), Kaifu ran successfully for the Diet in 1960 and served for sixteen terms totaling 49 years.
In 1935, Jesse Owens set a long jump world record that was not broken for 25 years, until 1960 by Ralph Boston.
In 1960, Brando married Movita Castaneda, a Mexican-American actress seven years his senior ; they were divorced in 1962.
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