February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
Day of death December 31, 1960
The temperature on December 31, 1960 was between 2.0 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.
January 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
March 4 » The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
April 9 » Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg.
June 26 » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
August 12 » Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.
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