The temperature on August 31, 1960 was between 12.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
May 16 » Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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