What is 1960?
{{Year nav|1960}} {{Year in various calendars|1960}} '''1960''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMLX]]) was a [[leap year starting on Friday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1960th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, the 960th year of the [[2nd millennium]], {{Year article header/year number|1960}}. == Events == * January – [[State of emergency]] is lifted in [[Kenya]] – [[Mau Mau]] Rebellion is officially over * [[January 1]] – Independence of [[Cameroon]] * [[January 9]] – [[Aswan High Dam]] construction begins in [[Egypt]] * [[January 14]] – [[Ralph Chubb]], the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. * January 14 – Reserve bank and Commonwealth Bank created (a) * [[January 23]] – [[Jacques Piccard]] and [[Don Walsh]] in the [[bathyscaphe]] ''[[USS Trieste]]'' break a depth record when they descend to the bottom of [[Challenger Deep]] 35,820 [[Foot (unit of length)|feet]] (10,750 [[metre|meters]]) below [[sea level]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]] * [[January 24]] – A major insurrection in [[Algiers]] against French colonial policy * [[January 25]] – The [[National Association of Broadcasters]] reacts to the [[Payola]] scandal by threatening fines for any [[disk jockey]]s who accepted money for playing particular records * [[February 1]] – ([[Greensboro, North Carolina|Greensboro, N.C.]]) [[Greensboro Four|Four black students]] from [[North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College]] begin a sit-in at a [[segregated]] [[Woolworth's]] [[lunch counter]]. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent [[protests]] throughout the South. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. * [[February 9]] – [[Joanne Woodward]] receives the first star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] * [[February 9]] – [[Adolph Coors III]], chairman of the board of the [[Coors Brewing Company]], is kidnapped and captors demand $500.000. Coors is later found killed and [[