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February 26, 1960 (Friday) The crash of Alitalia Airlines Flight 618 killed 23 of the 40 passengers on board, and all but one of the 12-member crew. The New York-bound Douglas DC-7 lost power shortly after takeoff from Shannon, Ireland , and crashed into a cemetery at Shannon's Clonloghan Church.
February 9. Adolph Coors III, the chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped in the United States, and his captors demand a ransom of $500,000. Coors is later found murdered, and Joseph Corbett Jr. is indicted for the crime. Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1] While the achievements of humans being launched into space , orbiting Earth , and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the " countercultural decade ...
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
67 Guardian, 29 Jan. 1960; Star, 3 Feb. 1960. ANC leaders Duma Nokwe and Alfred Nzo issued a circular instructing supporters to organize ten-strong groups of women protesters bearing placards at events where Macmillan was likely to appear.
- Saul Dubow
- 2011
24 January – A major insurrection occurs in Algiers against French colonial policy. 13 February – France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara. 23 March – Nikita Khrushchev meets Charles De Gaulle in Paris. 12 April – Eric Peugeot, youngest son of the founder of Peugeot, is kidnapped in Paris.
Doom is a first-person shooter video game and a reboot of the Doom franchise released on May 13, 2016. Players take the role of an unnamed space marine who battles demonic forces within an energy-mining facility on Mars and in Hell. The game also has an online multiplayer mode and a level editor. Developer id Software and co-developers took ...
