Explore 136 historical events and records for United States of America in 1960.
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The Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff complete SIOP-62, plans for the launch of more than 3,000 nuclear weapons, including hundreds of hydrogen bombs, to attack in the first few hours of conflict 1,000 targets in Communist countries
Winner of the best male actor for "Ben Hur"
Advises Kennedy that aid to South Vietnams President Diem should be increased
Advises Kennedy that south east Asia & Vietnam should be treated as neutral
The USA has given $2billion in aid & stationed 685 non combat advisers in South Vietnam
At Geneva refuses to accept the neutrality of South Vietnam
Shaw participated in preservation work involving the historic Audubon Cottages on Dauphine Street in the French Quarter.
Joins the University of California, Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor.
The HSCA reported that John Roselli served as a Mafia participant in CIA-backed efforts to arrange the assassination of Fidel Castro, creating an important organized-crime intelligence connection later examined by investigators.
The HSCA reported that Santos Trafficante participated with Sam Giancana and John Roselli in CIA-backed efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro during the early 1960s.
Directs Cleopatra
Hunt visited the Cuba project's Florida headquarters and worked with officers coordinating propaganda aimed at Cuban and Latin American audiences.
Records from the period place Sturgis among anti-Castro activists associated with organizations operating from the Miami area.
Hunt became chief of political action for the CIA Cuba project and was tasked with organizing an exile political structure to replace Castro's government.
Hunt worked with representatives of several Cuban exile organizations to create a political coalition for the anti-Castro operation.
Warned by de Gaulle that Vietnam is a "bottomless military & political swamp". Agrees to a "neutral & independent" Laos at Geneva
Performs in the Dinkytown folk scene before moving to New York.
In the 1960 presidential election, both main candidates, Richard Nixon of the Republican Party and John F. Kennedy of the Democratic Party, campaigned on the issue of Cuba, both taking a hardline stance on Castro
Manages successfully the presidential election campaign of his brother, JF Kennedy
Unsuccessful Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States
Robert Stack won the Emmy for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series for portraying Eliot Ness in The Untouchables.
Hunt shifted the exile political organization from Mexico to Miami after Mexican scrutiny made continued activity there increasingly difficult.
Stars in "Exodus"
Advises Kennedy to adopt a policy of "flexible response" toward counterinsurgency
Hunt developed plans for a Cuban government-in-exile that could claim political authority if the invasion succeeded and Castro's government collapsed.
Weber begins building resonant bar detectors to search directly for gravitational waves
Publishes the maximal analytic extension of the Schwarzschild geometry, showing that the event horizon is a regular spacetime surface rather than a physical singularity.
Leaves office with Southeast Asia as a major Cold War concern
Arendt's lectures examined judgment, freedom and the political significance of action.
Little Stevie Wonder, as he is called by Berry Gordy at Motown, is discovered singing & playing the harmonica
Little Stevie Wonder, as he is called by Berry Gordy at Motown, is discovered singing & playing the harmonica
By 1960, Sturgis was active among anti-Castro militants and Cuban exile contacts operating from South Florida.
Increases personnel in South Vietnam to over 16,000 & permits them to go into combat
With Dawon Kahng, demonstrates the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor for controlling electron flow.
Advises Kennedy that south east Asia & Vietnam should be treated as neutral
At Geneva refuses to accept the neutrality of South Vietnam
Agrees to a "neutral & independent" Laos at Geneva
Stars in Oceans Eleven
Wins the Olympic Gold medal & turns professional
Joins his father as co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
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