February 13 » Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
May 6 » Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
May 19 » The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Myanmar.
August 26 » Francisco de Orellana navigated the Amazon River, reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
August 28 » Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
November 24 » Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
Christening day October 21, 1960
The temperature on October 21, 1960 was between 9.4 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
March 9 » Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
July 12 » Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
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