The Russian gymnasts beat the tar out of the American gymnasts in the 1960 Olympics for one reason -- they were better.

Rome hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics.

* 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

Artificial ices entered the long track competitions with the 1960 Winter Olympics, and the competitions in 1956 on Lake Misurina were the last Olympic competitions on natural ice.

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.

Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay, who later became Muhammad Ali, Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.

The powerful sprinter emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as " The Tornado ," the fastest woman on earth.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she won three Olympic titles: the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 x 100 m relay.

Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed The World, Simon & Schuster, ( 2008 ) – ISBN 1-4165-3408-3

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1960 Summer Olympics

* 1960 Summer Olympics August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy

* 1960 Winter Olympics February 18 to 28, 1960, in Squaw Valley Ski Resort, California, United States

Bobsleigh was not included in the 1960 Winter Olympics, but has been in every Winter Olympics since.

Omaha is the birthplace of numerous important historical and modern sports figures, including 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist and NBA star Bob Boozer ; Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson ; 1989 American League Rookie of the Year Gregg Olson ; NFL running back Ahman Green ; Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers and Eric Crouch ; Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers ; and champion tennis player Andy Roddick.

For the 1960 Summer Olympics, it served as part of the men's marathon course that was won by Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia.

He didn't compete in the 1960 Summer Olympics at which Abebe Bikila became the first Ethiopian to win a gold medal.

However, athlete Said Moussa Osman, who represented Ethiopia in the 800 m at the 1960 Olympics, stated that Wolde lost at the trials and didn't make it on the team.

With the national team he won the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 European Championship.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1960 Summer Olympics

He made a short comeback before the 1960 Olympics but failed to qualify for the US Olympic team.

Category: Athletes ( track and field ) at the 1960 Summer Olympics

On successive Sundays during October, 1960, Paul Ferris ( a non-Catholic ) wrote articles in the Observer depicting clergymen of the Church of England, the Church of Rome and the Nonconformist Church.

* 1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali ( then Cassius Clay ) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

** The 1960 Summer Olympic Games begin in Rome.

Until 1960, another feast day which appeared in the General Roman Calendar is that of " St John Before the Latin Gate " on May 6, celebrating a tradition recounted by Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

Until 1960, another feast day which appeared in the General Roman Calendar is that of " St John Before the Latin Gate " on May 6, celebrating a tradition recounted by Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

* Famous Cities of the World: Rome ( 1960 )

Arranged for the first time in 1960 in Rome, Italy.

* Rome 1960 ( disambiguation )

England was chosen as host of the 1966 World Cup in Rome, Italy on 22 August 1960, over opposition from West Germany and Spain.

* The Official Films Of The Olympic Games: Rome 1960 ( Volume 3 ) = the movie La grande olimpiade

Italy also hosted the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960.

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy.

* Martha Hudson — Former Olympic athlete that won the gold medal in the 4x100 metre relay at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy.

* Dave Sime ( born 1936 ), sprinter who won a silver medal in the 100m dash at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

* Don Bragg ( born 1935 ), Gold medal winner in the pole vault at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy.

And Houston police have the final say in the matter since she died there on September 20, 1960, `` Diane Harris Graham, 30, D.O.A., circumstances -- unusual ''.

By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

On 18 June 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom she had her only child, a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier ( born 11 January 1960 ).

In 1960, she appeared as Clara in the episode " Who Killed Cock Robin?

* 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name " Mountbatten-Windsor ".

Thompson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered, and died in 1960.

Russ graduated from Cornell University, where she studied with Vladimir Nabokov in 1957, and received her MFA from the Yale Drama School in 1960.

Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, during the summer and later the University of Texas at Austin, though she did not complete her studies.

Pickford was registered with the Republican Party and in October 1960 she appeared with Ginger Rogers, Cesar Romero, Laraine Day, Dick Powell and John Payne in a Nixon-Lodge bumper sticker drive in Los Angeles.

In 1960, she guest starred in two episodes, " The O ' Mara's Ladies " and " All The O ' Mara's Horses ", of the William Bendix-Doug McClure NBC western series, Overland Trail.

In 1960, John and Mary Tress of Baltimore MD had what the nurse called twins, she was wrong.

Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, and she worked sporadically in film and theatre until her death from tuberculosis in 1967.

In 1960, she and Olivier divorced ; and Olivier married actress Joan Plowright.

Finally, on September 11, 1960, she combined with Tennessee State teammates Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams and Barbara Jones to win the 400-meter relay in 44. 5 seconds, setting a world record.

She spoke of her ambition to study psychiatry, and also stated her intention to compete in the " Miss Washington " pageant in 1960, but before she could follow either course of action, Paul Tate was transferred to Italy, taking his family with him.

In 1960, as she began to work continuously, she took her mother's maiden name ( Deneuve ) to use as her own professionally in order to differentiate herself from her elder sister, Françoise Dorléac, who was using their father's name.

Upon her death there was found in her apartment photographs of John F. Kennedy, whom she voted for in the 1960 presidential election.

After Pete Kelly's Blues, she appeared in sporadic movie cameos, in St. Louis Blues ( 1958 ), and Let No Man Write My Epitaph ( 1960 ).

Her true professional career began at that 1959 Newport Folk Festival ; following that appearance, she recorded her first album for Vanguard, Joan Baez ( 1960 ), produced by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers, who produced many albums by folk artists.

In August 2001, Vanguard began re-releasing Baez's first 13 albums, which she recorded for the label between 1960 and 1971.

For example, in her classic 1960 recording of " How High the Moon " live in Berlin, she quotes over a dozen songs, including " The Peanut Vendor ", " Heat Wave ", " A-Tisket, A-Tasket ", and " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ".

With this film, she became the second French actress to win an Oscar, following Simone Signoret's win for Room at the Top in 1960.