The temperature on June 14, 1960 was between 8.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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.
June 26 » Madagascar gains its independence from France.
July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
October 1 » Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
October 12 » Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.
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.
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