The temperature on April 7, 1960 was between 10.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
April 9 » Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
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