The temperature on August 10, 1960 was between 10.4 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 11.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
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 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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