About the day » Thursday January 28, 1960Calender converter

• Willem Arie van Ooijen, Nieuwland, zh.nld († 1994)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van der Lans, Lisse († 2016)
• Tojana Agatha Esche, Menado,Noord-Celebes,Indonesi√´ († 1960)
• Willem Arie van Ooijen, Nieuwland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Johannes Hubertus Maria MEERTS, Roermond († 1999)
• Elizabeth Neeltje Snoei († 2020)
• Freddy Sels, Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2001)
• John Marcel Severein, Oost-Vlieland († 1961)
• Trude Rixt Pieters Terpstra, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1994)
• Elisabeth Maria Sophie Aloisia Walpurga VON WALDBURG ZU ZEIL UND TRAUCHBURG († 1966)

• Antonius Damen (73), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Willem Leeuwenburg (75), Wassenaar
• Antonius Bernardus Onstein (72), Doetinchem
• Alberdina Cornelia Lutterman (79), Utrecht
• Alma P Pryor (72), Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
• Adriana Steenhard (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van der Helm (67), 's-Gravenhage
• Annie Bowron (61), Northam, Western Australia, Australia
• Ada Scholten (55), Arnhem
• Bernard Kracht (78), Weiteveen, DRE, Nederland

• 1956 » Peter Schilling, German singer-songwriter
• 1956 » Richard Danielpour, American composer and educator
• 1957 » Frank Skinner, English comedian, actor, and author
• 1957 » Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1957 » Nick Price, Zimbabwean-South African golfer
• 1959 » Frank Darabont, American director and producer
• 1960 » Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist and politician
• 1961 » Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 » Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1964 » David Lawrence, English cricketer

• 1949 » Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 » Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
• 1953 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1953 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• 1960 » Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (b. 1867)
• 1965 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• 1971 » Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
• March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• August 3 » Niger gains independence from France.
• August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
• September 2 » The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day.
• September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
• November 25 » The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.

The temperature on January 28, 1960 was between 5.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.