| January 1 | Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20 cents |
| January 1 | French Cameroon gains independence from France |
| January 1 | Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars |
| January 1 | Montserrat adopts constitution |
| January 1 | U.S. census at 179,245,000 |
| January 2 | 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) |
| January 2 | John F. Kennedy announces run for U.S. Presidency |
| January 2 | John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years |
| January 2 | Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres |
| January 2 | Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president |
| January 4 | European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm |
| January 5 | Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating |
| January 9 | Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins |
| January 10 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz |
| January 11 | Chad declares independence from France |
| January 11 | Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts |
| January 12 | Sobers and Worrell complete 399 stand for 4th wkt vs. England |
| January 12 | Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points |
| January 14 | Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded |
| January 14 | U.S. Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant |
| January 17 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| January 17 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21 |
| January 18 | U.S. and Japan sign joint defense treaty |
| January 19 | Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact |
| January 20 | Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo |
| January 21 | Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km |
| January 21 | Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning |
| January 22 | 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia |
| January 22 | Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die |
| January 22 | French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu |
| January 22 | Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title |
| January 23 | Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m) |
| January 24 | Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle |
| January 26 | Danny Heater scores 135 pts in basketball game (Boys' HS) |
| January 26 | High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points |
| January 26 | Oakland enters AFL |
| January 26 | Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on 23rd ballot |
| January 28 | Goon Show's final episode on BBC |
| January 28 | NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) and Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises |
| January 30 | CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft |
| January 30 | Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands |
| January 30 | Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI vs. England |
| January 30 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
| January 30 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
| January 31 | Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress and singer Phyllis Newman in New York City |
| February 1 | 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62) |
| February 1 | 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth |
| February 1 | 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86) |
| February 1 | Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender |
| February 2 | Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss |
| February 4 | BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member |
| February 4 | Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park |
| February 4 | Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres |
| February 7 | Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea |
| February 8 | Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51) |
| February 9 | AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact |
| February 10 | Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres |
| February 10 | "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 532 performances |
| February 11 | Jack Paar walks off his TV show |
| February 12 | Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers |
| February 13 | "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| February 13 | France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
| February 13 | "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances |
| February 14 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| February 14 | Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
| February 16 | U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip |
| February 18 | 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California |
| February 18 | Walter O'Malley, Los Angeles Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000 |
| February 19 | Protest strike in Poznan Poland |
| February 21 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
| February 23 | Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913) |
| February 24 | Italian government of Segni falls |
| February 24 | U.S. beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1 |
| February 25 | John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres |
| February 25 | Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in New York City |
| February 26 | Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia |
| February 26 | USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating |
| February 26 | Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| February 27 | Oil pipeline from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens |
| February 27 | U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats U.S.S.R. 3-2 en route to gold medal |
| February 28 | 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, California |
| February 28 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| February 28 | U.S. wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4 |
| February 29 | 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago |
| February 29 | Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts |
| February 29 | Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec |
| February 29 | John F. Kennedy makes missile gap the presidential campaign issue |
| February 29 | KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 3 | 9th largest snowfall in New York City history, 14.5" |
| March 4 | French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 |
| March 4 | Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz |
| March 5 | Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army |
| March 5 | Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB) |
| March 5 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) |
| March 5 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA) |
| March 5 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA) |
| March 6 | President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament |
| March 7 | Dutch Builders strike for CLA |
| March 8 | "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 95 performances |
| March 10 | U.S.S.R. agrees to stop nuclear testing |
| March 11 | Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus |
| March 13 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 13 | NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis |
| March 13 | White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number |
| March 14 | 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield California |
| March 14 | Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points |
| March 15 | Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park |
| March 15 | National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated |
| March 17 | Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA |
| March 17 | WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 19 | 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio State beats California 75-55 |
| March 19 | "Redhead" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 455 performances |
| March 21 | Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa and outlaws ANC |
| March 22 | 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes |
| March 23 | Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit |
| March 24 | U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene |
| March 25 | 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut) |
| March 25 | DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (New York City) |
| March 25 | Ford Frick voids Indians - Red Sox deal as Sam White retires |
| March 25 | Italian government Tambroni forms |
| March 26 | Iraq executes 30 after attack on President Kassem |
| March 26 | Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami |
| March 26 | USC captures NCAA swimming title |
| March 27 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open |
| March 28 | Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African and 1st Filipino cardinal |
| March 28 | Scotch factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow Scotland) |
| March 29 | Darius Milhaud's 9th Symphony, premieres |
| March 31 | Gore Vidal's "Best Man," premieres in New York City |
| April 1 | 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria |
| April 1 | Mabry Harper catches a 25 lb Walleye in Tennessee |
| April 1 | RCA TIROS (TV and Infra-Red Observation 'weather' Satellite) I launched |
| April 1 | U Nu elected premier of Burma |
| April 2 | Cuba buys oil from U.S.S.R. |
| April 2 | KPEC TV channel 56 in Lakewood Center-Tacoma, WA (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| April 3 | Earthquake at Havre, Belgium |
| April 4 | 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win |
| April 4 | Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra |
| April 4 | Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center |
| April 4 | Senegal declares independence from France |
| April 8 | Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties |
| April 9 | 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 |
| April 9 | South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle |
| April 10 | 24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282 |
| April 10 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| April 10 | Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
| April 11 | 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1) |
| April 12 | Bert Haanstra wins Oscar for "Glass" |
| April 12 | Bill Veeck and Chicago Comiskey Park debuts "Exploding Scoreboard" |
| April 13 | France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara |
| April 13 | Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit |
| April 14 | 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile |
| April 14 | "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 607 performances |
| April 14 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games |
| April 15 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U |
| April 17 | American Samoa sets up a constitutional government |
| April 17 | Cleveland Indians trade Rocky Colavito to Tigers for Harvey Kuenn |
| April 19 | 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54 |
| April 19 | Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs |
| April 19 | Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating |
| April 20 | "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| April 21 | Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil |
| April 23 | 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite" |
| April 24 | 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker and Fiorello! win |
| April 24 | Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed |
| April 24 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
| April 24 | Record 4 grand slams hit today |
| April 25 | 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by Triton |
| April 27 | 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee |
| April 27 | South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns |
| April 27 | Togo (formerly French Togo) declares independence from French Admiral |
| April 28 | "Christine" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| April 28 | WIPM TV channel 3 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 1 | India's Bombay state split into Gujarat and Maharashtra states |
| May 1 | Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis |
| May 1 | Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane |
| May 2 | Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance |
| May 2 | House investigating committee, looking into payola questions |
| May 2 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent) |
| May 3 | Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premieres in New York City |
| May 4 | 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland |
| May 6 | English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) |
| May 6 | President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 |
| May 6 | Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta |
| May 6 | Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico |
| May 7 | 86th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Venetian Way wins in 2:02.4 |
| May 7 | "Christine" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| May 7 | Dodgers Larry and Norm Sherry are baseball's 10th brother battery |
| May 7 | "Flower Drum Song" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 602 performances |
| May 7 | "From A to Z" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| May 7 | Leonid Brezhnev replaces Kliment Voroshilov as President of U.S.S.R. |
| May 7 | Los Angeles Dodger Norm Sherry's 11th home run wins the game for brother Larry |
| May 7 | Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12 -8 for world chess championship |
| May 7 | U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy |
| May 8 | U.S.S.R. and Cuba resume diplomatic relations |
| May 8 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| May 9 | Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth |
| May 9 | U.S. is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally |
| May 9 | U.S. send U-2 over U.S.S.R. |
| May 10 | John F. Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia |
| May 10 | USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water |
| May 11 | French liner "France" launched |
| May 11 | Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires |
| May 12 | Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special |
| May 13 | 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed |
| May 13 | Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game |
| May 13 | WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR |
| May 14 | "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden New York City after 216 performances |
| May 14 | U.S.S.R. launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule |
| May 14 | Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Potsdam, New York |
| May 15 | Chicago Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0 |
| May 15 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad |
| May 15 | KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 15 | Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed |
| May 16 | Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US |
| May 17 | 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park, California |
| May 18 | Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs) |
| May 18 | Jean Genets "Le Balcon," premieres in Paris |
| May 19 | Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola |
| May 19 | Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed |
| May 19 | USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m |
| May 20 | Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog |
| May 21 | 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6 |
| May 22 | Virtually all coastal towns between 37th and 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM |
| May 23 | "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| May 23 | "Got A Girl" by The Four Preps hits #24 |
| May 23 | Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina |
| May 23 | WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 23 | WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, Puerto Rico 1st broadcast |
| May 23 | WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (New York City) |
| May 24 | 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed |
| May 25 | George Crowe's record 11th pinch-hit home run |
| May 27 | Baltimore manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt |
| May 27 | Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey |
| May 28 | "Greenwillow" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 95 performances |
| May 29 | Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1 |
| June 1 | "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| June 1 | WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, WV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 2 | Broadway theaters close, labor dispute between owners and Actors Equity |
| June 5 | "George Gobel Show," last airs on CBS-TV |
| June 5 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| June 6 | Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely" |
| June 6 | South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill |
| June 6 | Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 8 | 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House" |
| June 8 | Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann |
| June 9 | ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract |
| June 9 | Typhoon Mary in China killed at least 1,600 |
| June 11 | 92nd Belmont: Bill Hartack aboard Celtic Ash wins in 2:29.2 |
| June 11 | House packed with wedding celebrants collapses killing 30 (Pakistan) |
| June 12 | KORN (now KDLT) TV channel 5 in Mitchell-Sioux Falls, SD (ABC) begins |
| June 12 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| June 13 | "Alley-Oop" by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59 |
| June 13 | Prince Norodom Sihanoek becomes head of Cambodia |
| June 15 | Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races |
| June 15 | Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann |
| June 16 | "Psycho," opens in New York |
| June 17 | Ted Williams hit his 500th home runs |
| June 18 | 60th U.S. Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots 280 at Cherry Hills in Denver |
| June 18 | "Destry Rides Again" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 472 performances |
| June 18 | Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66) |
| June 18 | Real Madrid wins 5th Europe Cup 1 |
| June 19 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| June 19 | Juan Marichal debuts as San Francisco Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter |
| June 19 | Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl" |
| June 20 | 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt |
| June 20 | Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France |
| June 20 | Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavywgt boxing title |
| June 20 | Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (New York City) |
| June 21 | Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0) |
| June 23 | Japan signs security treaty with the U.S. |
| June 23 | "Pat Boone Show," last airs on ABC-TV |
| June 24 | Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa vs. England Lord's |
| June 25 | Earthquake in NE Belgium |
| June 25 | Madagascar gains independence of France |
| June 26 | British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain |
| June 26 | Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually |
| June 26 | Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration |
| June 26 | Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France |
| June 27 | British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia |
| June 27 | Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass |
| June 27 | Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens |
| June 28 | 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record) |
| June 29 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| June 29 | KYA-AM in San Francisco changes call letters to KDBQ (for 2 weeks) |
| June 30 | U.S. stops sugar import from Cuba |
| June 30 | Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium |
| July 1 | Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense," premieres in Basel |
| July 1 | British Somaliland becomes Somalia |
| July 1 | Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba |
| July 1 | Ghana becomes a republic |
| July 1 | Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic |
| July 1 | No passports needed inside Benelux |
| July 1 | U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane |
| July 2 | "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 460 performances |
| July 3 | Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot |
| July 4 | 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| July 4 | America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled |
| July 4 | Mickey Mantle is 18th to hit 300 home runs |
| July 5 | Mongolia adopts constitution |
| July 6 | Dr. Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from Los Angeles to New York City |
| July 7 | Netherlands - U.S. cemetery Margraten official opens |
| July 7 | U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea |
| July 8 | Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey |
| July 10 | Belgium sends troops to Congo |
| July 10 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open) |
| July 11 | 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC |
| July 11 | Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution |
| July 11 | Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence |
| July 11 | Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independence |
| July 12 | Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence |
| July 12 | Echo I, 1st passive satellite launched |
| July 12 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament |
| July 12 | U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs |
| July 12 | XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| July 13 | 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York |
| July 13 | KDBQ-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KYA |
| July 13 | U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate |
| July 14 | Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| July 14 | Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300 |
| July 15 | Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle |
| July 16 | 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer |
| July 16 | George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit home runs with a runner on |
| July 18 | 1st United Nations troops reach Congo |
| July 18 | Baseball's NL votes to add Houston and New York franchises |
| July 18 | Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns |
| July 19 | Italian Government Tambroni, resigns |
| July 19 | San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies |
| July 20 | 1st submerged submarine, George Washington, to fire Polaris missile ( |
| July 20 | Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon |
| July 20 | U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space |
| July 21 | Country of Katanga forms in Africa |
| July 21 | Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing |
| July 21 | In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM |
| July 22 | Cuba nationalizes all U.S. owned sugar factories |
| July 23 | 15th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| July 24 | 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron |
| July 25 | Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels |
| July 25 | U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate |
| July 26 | Italian government of Fanfani forms |
| July 27 | Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago |
| July 28 | Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate |
| July 30 | 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7) |
| July 31 | Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state |
| July 31 | KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| July 31 | Patty Berg wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
| August 1 | Aretha Franklins 1st recording session |
| August 1 | Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France |
| August 1 | Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" |
| August 3 | Niger gains independence from France |
| August 4 | Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH |
| August 5 | Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France |
| August 5 | Detroit trades manager Jimmy Dykes for Cleveland's manager Joe Gordon |
| August 6 | Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 43-16 in Toronto |
| August 7 | Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoore, gains independence from France |
| August 7 | Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches |
| August 7 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| August 8 | "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1 |
| August 9 | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
| August 10 | Discoverer 13 launched into orbit; returned 1st object from space |
| August 10 | Nicolaas Jouwe forms PANA in New-Guinea |
| August 11 | Chad declares Independence from France |
| August 12 | 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000) |
| August 12 | Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched |
| August 12 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 11" |
| August 12 | USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m |
| August 13 | Central African Republic and Chad proclaim independence from France |
| August 13 | U.S.S.R. draws adviseors out of China |
| August 15 | CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium |
| August 15 | Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo) |
| August 15 | Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France |
| August 15 | Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0 |
| August 16 | Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus |
| August 16 | Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700') |
| August 16 | Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms |
| August 17 | Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow |
| August 17 | Gabon gains independence from France, National Day |
| August 17 | Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands |
| August 18 | 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois |
| August 18 | 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| August 18 | Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg) |
| August 18 | Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies |
| August 19 | Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by U.S.S.R. (U-2 incident) |
| August 19 | Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive) |
| August 20 | Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence |
| August 20 | U.S.S.R. recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space |
| August 22 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Asheville Golf Open |
| August 22 | Gil Hodges set NL righty home run record with #352 |
| August 23 | World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea) |
| August 24 | -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
| August 24 | 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil |
| August 25 | 17th summer olympics opens in Rome |
| August 25 | AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies |
| August 25 | Demonstrations against premier Lumumba |
| August 27 | Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5) |
| August 27 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open |
| August 28 | White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run home run is disallowed as ump called time |
| August 29 | Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack |
| August 30 | Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7 |
| August 30 | East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin |
| August 31 | Agricultural Hall of Fame forms |
| September 1 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| September 1 | Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London |
| September 2 | Tamara and Irina Press (U.S.S.R.) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold |
| September 2 | William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
| September 4 | Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean and US |
| September 5 | Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal |
| September 5 | President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo |
| September 5 | Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal |
| September 7 | Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3) |
| September 8 | East Germany limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners |
| September 9 | 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) |
| September 10 | Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) |
| September 10 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' home run over right field roof in Detroit |
| September 11 | 17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy |
| September 11 | 74th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) |
| September 11 | 80th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) |
| September 12 | "Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| September 13 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law |
| September 14 | Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 |
| September 14 | Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo |
| September 14 | Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC |
| September 14 | KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 |
| September 16 | Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 |
| September 17 | Cuba nationalizes U.S. banks |
| September 17 | "Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| September 18 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
| September 19 | Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 |
| September 20 | U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations) |
| September 20 | WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 22 | Mali, formerly French Sudan, declares independence from France |
| September 24 | International Development Association (U.N. agency) comes into existence |
| September 24 | USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches |
| September 25 | Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1 |
| September 25 | For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant |
| September 25 | New York Yankees clinch AL pennant |
| September 25 | Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses |
| September 26 | 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon and Kennedy took place (Chicago) |
| September 26 | Fidel Castro gives a very long speech at the United Nations, 4 hours, 29 minutes |
| September 26 | Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st home run off Jack Fisher |
| September 27 | Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station |
| September 28 | "Millionaire," last airs on CBS-TV |
| September 28 | "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," by Connie Francis hits #1 |
| September 28 | "Queen For A Day," moves to ABC-TV |
| September 28 | "Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater |
| September 28 | Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 |
| September 29 | "Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | "lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 527 performances |
| September 29 | "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV |
| September 29 | "Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK |
| September 30 | Flintstones premieres, 1st prime time animation show |
| September 30 | On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" |
| September 30 | West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany |
| October 1 | 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal |
| October 1 | KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 1 | Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| October 1 | South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea |
| October 2 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament |
| October 3 | "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke |
| October 3 | Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil |
| October 3 | San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard |
| October 3 | Yankees win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 home runs |
| October 4 | Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit |
| October 5 | British Labour party demands unilateral nuclear disarmament |
| October 5 | Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die) |
| October 5 | KEYC TV channel 12 in Mankato, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 7 | 2nd John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate |
| October 7 | "Route 66" premieres |
| October 8 | Bobby Richarson hits a World Series grand slammer |
| October 9 | Cowboy quarterback Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2") |
| October 10 | 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo |
| October 10 | Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die |
| October 10 | "Laughs and Other Events" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| October 10 | Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards |
| October 10 | WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 11 | Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die) |
| October 11 | Radio - TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers |
| October 12 | John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate |
| October 12 | Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly |
| October 13 | 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood and Kennedy in NY |
| October 13 | Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba |
| October 13 | Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off home run beats New York Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series |
| October 14 | Belgian sen Victor Leemans reveals huge gas field in Groningen |
| October 14 | Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy |
| October 15 | "Laughs and Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| October 16 | NL votes to admit Houston and New York to league |
| October 17 | "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 216 performances |
| October 17 | U.S. and Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases |
| October 18 | Casey Stengel retired by New York Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years) |
| October 18 | In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News |
| October 19 | France grants Mauritania independence |
| October 19 | KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting |
| October 19 | Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in |
| October 19 | U.S. imposes embargo on exports to Cuba |
| October 20 | 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI |
| October 20 | Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager |
| October 21 | 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched |
| October 21 | John F. Kennedy and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (New York City) |
| October 22 | Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer |
| October 24 | Disaster on U.S.S.R. (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); U.S.S.R. claims killed in plane crash |
| October 25 | 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City |
| October 25 | Cuba nationalizes all remaining U.S. businesses |
| October 26 | AL approves Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins and announces franchises in LA and Washington D.C. for 1961 |
| October 27 | AL admits LA and Washington to the league |
| October 27 | Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me" |
| October 29 | Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16 |
| October 29 | Muhammad Ali's 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6 |
| October 30 | Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba |
| October 31 | Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die |
| November 1 | Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year |
| November 1 | Benelux treaty goes into effect |
| November 2 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad |
| November 2 | George Weiss, at 66, resigns as General Manager of New York Yankees |
| November 2 | Penguin Books publishes "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
| November 2 | Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222 |
| November 3 | Ivory Coast adopts constitution |
| November 3 | Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award |
| November 3 | Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown," premieres in New York City |
| November 3 | "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 532 performances |
| November 4 | "Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe |
| November 7 | KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting |
| November 8 | John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th U.S. president |
| November 10 | Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill |
| November 11 | Largest New York Knick 49th St. MSG crowd-18,499 |
| November 12 | Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails |
| November 13 | Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain) |
| November 13 | Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt |
| November 14 | 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czechoslovakia) |
| November 14 | Belgium threatens to leave United Nations due to criticism on it's Congo-policy |
| November 14 | OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms |
| November 14 | Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches #1 |
| November 14 | Riot due to school integration in New Orleans |
| November 15 | Elgin Baylor of NBA Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points vs New York Knicks |
| November 15 | USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched |
| November 16 | NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP |
| November 17 | New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada |
| November 18 | Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels |
| November 18 | Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration |
| November 19 | Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team |
| November 21 | Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down |
| November 22 | French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons |
| November 23 | Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year |
| November 23 | Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd |
| November 23 | Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched |
| November 24 | Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record) |
| November 25 | 1st atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Wa |
| November 25 | "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio |
| November 25 | CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton) and cancels 4 other series |
| November 26 | 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6 |
| November 26 | Minneapolis-St. Paul baseball club takes the name Twins |
| November 27 | CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel" |
| November 27 | Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast |
| November 27 | Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points |
| November 27 | Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo |
| November 27 | Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38 |
| November 28 | CBS radio expands hourly news coverage from 5 to 10 minutes |
| November 28 | Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day) |
| November 29 | 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB) |
| November 30 | French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons |
| November 30 | Tad Mosels "All the Way Home," premieres in New York City |
| December 1 | Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo |
| December 3 | "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 873 performances |
| December 3 | Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot," premieres in New York City |
| December 5 | Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium |
| December 6 | AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels |
| December 7 | Ivory Coast claims independence from France |
| December 8 | Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium |
| December 9 | 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV |
| December 11 | Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die |
| December 11 | Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run |
| December 11 | Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York City |
| December 13 | Italy beats U.S. in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years U.S. not in finals) |
| December 13 | Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane |
| December 14 | Australia vs. West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie |
| December 14 | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms |
| December 14 | Washington Senators joins American League |
| December 15 | King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon |
| December 16 | TWA 266 and United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134 |
| December 16 | "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 172 performances |
| December 17 | "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 835 performances |
| December 17 | Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio," premieres |
| December 17 | "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 448 performances |
| December 18 | General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid |
| December 19 | Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die) |
| December 19 | Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding) |
| December 19 | Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight |
| December 20 | Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany |
| December 23 | De Quay's Dutch government falls |
| December 23 | King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power |
| December 24 | Dutch bishops question papacy values |
| December 26 | "Do Re Mi" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 400 performances |
| December 26 | Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in New York City |
| December 26 | Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game |
| December 27 | France performs nuclear test |
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