The temperature on May 31, 1960 was between 4.4 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
September 10 » At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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