Biggest Events of the Year 1960

The Top Ten

1 John F. Kennedy elected US President in narrow contest over Richard Nixon

Maybe the most popular US president is elected

2 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy

3 Echo I, the first communications satellite is launched

4 Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso (Upper Volta), Benin, Niger, Gabon, Republic of Congo and Chad become independent from France

Kennedy didn't do much in his presidency as far as I know. olympics happen every 4 years. I think this should be number1.

5 Soviet Union shoots down an American U-2 reconnaissance airplane over Soviet airspace

6 First studies linking cigarette smoking with heart disease

7 Soviet Sputnik 5 launches two dogs into orbit and returns them safely to earth

8 FDA approves sale of birth control pill in the USA

9 First successful kidney transplant performed

10 Chubby Checker recorded The Twist

The Contenders

11 Bill Mazeroski's walk off homerun, 1960 World Series

A truly great moment in the history of the World Series and for all of Major League Baseball. Some history about the series on film. When I first saw footage of that home run it was brownish that's why that TV show the way it was put this footage in black and white. But as the years pass the improvement of this series film became huge when Rare Sportsfilms turned this brownish film into pure color, then I saw the complete game 7 of that series in perfect kinescope film, wow Forbes Field went nuts and it still is today as it was 62 years ago.
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12 The demolition of Ebbets Field

13 France tests her first atomic bomb

14 The Beatles form

15 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, USA

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