June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
Day of death January 11, 1960
The temperature on January 11, 1960 was between -8.1 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
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.
August 3 » Niger gains independence from France.
August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
August 19 » Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
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