April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
Day of death January 1, 1960
The temperature on January 1, 1960 was between 7.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
June 17 » The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4million for 7million acres (28,000km) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
July 20 » The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USSGeorge Washington, for the first time.
August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
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