January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
Day of death December 24, 1960
The temperature on December 24, 1960 was between -0.3 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
July 11 » France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger.
August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
December 3 » The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
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