1960 - News and Entertainment
'The wind of change' in more ways than one
Everything about the year 1960 seems to suggest 'something waiting to happen'. It could have been good and it could have been bad.
Above all, there was an air of expectancy and new hope, but the coming years were going to be hard going, there were threats of war and the people eventually got together and through music and entertainment, the people started fighting back !
Main news Stories 1960
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for the first time
60,000 protestors stage a demonstration in London against nuclear weapons
Elvis Presley returns home from Germany, after being away on duty for 2 years
The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam
Wolverhampton Wanderers win F.A.Cup
A Soviet missile shoots down an American Lockheed U2 spy plane; the pilot Francis Gary Powers is captured
U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy becomes President of the United States
Francis Chichester first to sail around the world solo
The 1960 Summer Olympics open in Rome
Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) wins the gold medal in boxing
Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jone
Nuclear Sumarine 'Dreadnaught' is launched
Years top selling Album (UK)
Film Music from South Pacific
Years top selling Single (UK)
Elvis Presley - 'It's now or never'
Best Movie Oscar
Ben Hur
Best Actor Oscar
Charlton Heston - Ben Hur
Best Actress Oscar
Doris Day - Pillow Talk
At the Cinema 1960
Swiss Family Robinson, Spartacus, The Alamo, La Doicae Vita, The Magnificient Seven, Pure Hell at St. Trinians, The Time Machine, Psycho, Polyanna, The Lost World
People born in 1960
Nigella Lawson, Prince Andrew the Duke of York, Mick Hucknall, Ian Hislop, Hugh Grant, Jonathon Ross, Kim Wilde, Gary Lineker, Carol Vauderman, Jeremy Clarkson, Gary Rhodes, Colin Firth, Damon Hill,
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