April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
Day of death July 16, 1960
The temperature on July 16, 1960 was between 9.8 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
July 8 » Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
August 6 » Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
December 9 » The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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