Agenda by the Mother. Volume 1. Chronology of World Events

1950
1950	January 26	Proclamation of the Republic of India.
1950	January 31	President Truman orders the Atomic Energy Commission to develop a hydrogen bomb.
1950	February 14	Signing in Moscow of a 30-year Sino-Soviet friendship and mutual defense treaty.
1950	March 10	Vice Premier Molotov says that the U.S.S.R. has penetrated the atomic secret and cannot be intimidated by the hydrogen bomb.
1950	June 25	North Korean troops invade South Korea.
1950	June 27	The U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam and agrees to provide military and economic aid.
1950	June 30	President Truman commits U.S. ground forces in Korea as well as air and naval support.
1950	August 15	Massive earthquake in Assam claims 1,530 lives.
1950	September 19	The Republic of China's admission to the U.N. General Assembly, proposed by India, is rejected.
1950	October 25	Communist China announces invasion of Tibet to “liberate” its 3 million people.
1950	November 26	Communist Chinese forces shatter an American-U.N. offensive in Korea. President Truman threatens use of the atomic bomb if necessary.
1950	December 5	Sri Aurobindo leaves his body.
1951
1951	February 1	The U.N. General Assembly finds Communist China responsible for aggression in Korea.
1951	April 11	General MacArthur is relieved of his command in Korea and Japan for insubordination.
1951	May 6	Success of the Pro-Nazi Socialist Reichs Party in the parliamentary elections in Lower Saxony.
1951	May 27	Tibet becomes a province of Communist China.
1951	July 9	France, Great Britain and other nations officially declare an end to the state of war with Germany.
1951	July 20	King Abdul ibn Hussein of Jordan is assassinated.
1951	September 4	First U.S. transcontinental television broadcast.
1951	September 8	48 nations sign Japanese peace treaty in San Francisco.
1951	October 6	In Pravda, Premier Joseph Stalin confirms atomic weapons tests in the U.S.S.R.
1951	October 10	Inauguration of first transcontinental dial telephone.
1951	October 24	President Truman proclaims the formal end of war between the U.S. and Germany.
1952
1952	February 6	Elizabeth II ascends the British throne on the death of George VI.
1952	March 10	Fulgencio Batista seizes power in Cuba.
1952	April 23	The U.S. explodes the first “strategic” atomic bomb in Nevada.
1952	May 25	Success of the Neo-fascist party in the provincial and municipal elections in central and southern Italy.
1952	July 23	General Mohammed Naguib seizes power in Egypt. King Farouk goes into exile.
1952	August 15	Prime Minister Nehru pledges “to raise the voice of peace to the last” and warns against communism.
1952	August 24	British troops evacuate the last stronghold of the Suez Canal.
1952	September 15	A new Sino-Soviet Accord is signed in Moscow to “strengthen and develop friendship and cooperation.”
1952	October 3	First British atomic bomb is exploded off the coast of Australia.
1952	November 1	The U.S. explodes the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok, in the Marshall Islands.
1952	November 4	General Eisenhower is elected the first Republican President of the U.S. since 1928 with an overwhelming majority.
1952	November 8	Race riots in South Africa claim more than 22 lives.
1952	December 7	Sanguinary riots in Tunisia and French Morocco claim at least 61 lives.
1952	December 12	Opening of the People's Congress for Peace in Vienna.
1953
1953	January 13	Tito is elected President of Yugoslavia.
1953	January 31	Floods devastate North Sea coastal areas, more than 2,000 dead.
1953	February 12	The U.S.S.R. breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1953	February 22	Earthquakes in Iran destroy the town of Trud, 1,000 dead.
1953	March 5	Joseph Stalin dies and is succeeded by Malenkov.
1953	April 14	Vietminh forces invade Laos.
1953	April 16	President Eisenhower launches a peace offensive against the U.S.S.R.
1953	May 29	Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1953	June 2	Queen Elizabeth II is crowned.
1953	June 18	Proclamation of the Republic of Egypt, with General Naguib as its first President.
1953	June 19	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the United States on charges of atomic espionage.
1953	July 10	Purge of L.P. Beria, chief of internal security forces in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin.
1953	July 27	Signing of the armistice in Korea, at Panmunjom, after 3 years of fighting.
1953	August 12	The U.S.S.R. explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
1953	August 15	Violent riots in Morocco claim 40 lives after the Sultan of Morocco is deposed.
1953	August 19	Royalist forces in Iran under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi overthrow nationalist government of Mossadegh.
1953	September 7	Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
1953	October 9	The first American atomic missile arrives in Germany.
1953	December 8	President Eisenhower presents to the U.N. his Atoms for Peace program for sharing fissionable materials through an international agency.
1954
1954	January 1	The Nautilus, the first atomic submarine, is launched in Connecticut.
1954	January 12	Secretary of State Dulles advocates a policy of “massive retaliation” to deter aggression.
1954	February 22	Indian Prime Minister Nehru appeals for Indochmese cease-fire.
1954	February 25	U.S. announces military aid to Pakistan despite Indian opposition.
1954	February 26	West Germany modifies its constitution to permit rearmament.
1954	March 8	Japanese-U.S. mutual defense agreement is signed in Tokyo.
1954	March 29	Dulles urges “united action” against communism in Southeast Asia.
1954	April 16	Vice President Nixon suggests U.S. intervention in Indochina if the French leave.
1954	May 7	French defeat at Dienbienphu by Ho-Chi-Minh, and an armistice dividing Vietnam at 17° N.
1954	May 15	300 persons killed in labor riots near Dacca, in East Pakistan.
1954	May 17	The U.S. Supreme Court abolishes racial segregation in schools.
1954	May 19	The U.S. and Pakistan sign a pact of mutual assistance.
1954	May 26	U.S. aircraft carrier Bennington explodes and burns off U.S. east coast, 103 dead.
1954	August 24	President Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act, which effectively outlaws the Communist Party.
1954	August 30	President Eisenhower signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which authorizes private nuclear development and the extension of information to friendly countries.
1954	September 8	The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is created in Manila by the U.S. and seven other countries.
1954	September 26	Japanese ferry Toya Maru sinks in Tsugaru Strait claiming 1,172 lives.
1954	October 13	U.S. Air Force orders first supersonic bomber, the B-58.
1954	October 18	Hurricane on U.S. east coast kills 95, $500 million damage.
1955
1955	January 25	The U.S.S.R. ends its state of war with Germany.
1955	March 1	Sir Winston Churchill says his government's decision to make the hydrogen bomb is the “only sane policy” for the West.
1955	March 31	State of emergency in Algeria as a result of terrorism by Arab nationalists. Nehru protests against “madhouse” Western diplomacy.
1955	April 5	Sir Winston Churchill resigns. Sir Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister.
1955	April 18	Leaders of 29 African and Asian countries meet in Bandung, Indonesia, giving birth to a new nationalism among developing countries. Death of Albert Einstein.
1955	May 5	Federal Republic of West Germany becomes a sovereign state.
1955	May 7	West Germany takes part in establishment of Western European Union and 2 days later joins NATO.
1955	May 14	The Warsaw Pact, an East European mutual defense treaty among Communist bloc countries, is signed.
1955	May 15	Remaining French forces leave North Vietnam.
1955	May 26	Khrushchev-Tito meeting in Belgrade affirms the right of each country freely to choose its own socialist policy.
1955	June 4	Nehru visits the U.S.S.R. and Europe.
1955	July 18-23	Big Four summit conference in Geneva is unable to reach agreement.
1955	August 7-21	Hurricane and floods on the U.S. east coast claim 184 lives and cause $5 billion damage.
1955	August 15	Riots in Goa.
1955	September 19	The Argentine dictator Juan Péron overthrown by rebel forces.
1955	September 30	The U.N. puts the Algerian situation on its agenda. French Premier Edgar Faure reacts by recalling his country's U.N. delegation.
1955	October 4	Floods in India and Pakistan claim 1,700 lives and 5.6 million crop acres devastated.
1955	October 18	Discovery of the antiproton, a new atomic particle.
1955	October 26	Proclamation of the Republic of South Vietnam. Ngo Dinh Diem is elected President.
1955	December 1	Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a successful Negro boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system.
1956
1956	January 1	The Sudan becomes an independent state.
1956	February 16	The House of Commons abolishes capital punishment in Great Britain.
1956	February 24	Nikita S. Khrushchev denounces Stalin's personality cult and other excesses in a secret session of the Soviet Communist Party's 20th Congress.
1956	March 2	Independence of Morocco.
1956	March 20	Independence of Tunisia.
1956	March 23	Proclamation of the Republic of Pakistan.
1956	April 5	In retaliation against Egyptian attacks, the Israelis bombard the Gaza Strip. 42 dead.
1956	April 17	Visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to London.
1956	May 14	The U.S.S.R. announces that it will reduce its military strength by 1,200,000 men.
1956	May 28	France cedes by treaty all its settlements on the Indian subcontinent to India.
1956	June 10-17	Massive earthquakes in northern Afghanistan, 2,000 dead.
1956	June 23	New Egyptian Constitution approved by referendum.
1956	June 28-30	Colonel Nasser becomes President of the Republic. Violent workers' uprising against Communist rule in Poznan, Poland, is crushed.
1956	July 4-6	Nehru and Nixon clash over India's neutralism “that makes no distinction between the Communist... and the free world.”
1956	July 18	Tito-Nasser-Nehru parley in Yugoslavia airs neutralist views on world issues.
1956	July 23	Strike by the workers of the British Motor Corporation against automation.
1956	July 26	President Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal Company.
1956	August 1	Typhoon and floods kill 2,000 in China.
1956	August 23	Khrushchev announces that in the event of a Western attack on Egypt, Soviet volunteers will join combat.
1956	September 15	Arrival of Soviet pilots in Cairo. The Chinese Communist Party meets for the first time since assuming power. Mao Tse-Tung is made President of the Central Committee.
1956	September 24	Inauguration of the first transatlantic cable telephone system.
1956	October 23	Revolution in Hungary. Geroe calls in the Russian troops.
1956	October 29	Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and drive towards the Suez Canal.
1956	October 31	Great Britain and France start bombing Egyptian air-ports in a bid for control of the Canal.
1956	November 3	Egyptians block off the Suez Canal by sinking several ships.
1956	November 4	Soviet troops and tanks crush the anti-Communist revolt in Budapest. Kadar forms a new government. The U.N. General Assembly votes to create an international police force and demands the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops in Hungary.
1956	November 6	Cease-fire and troop withdrawal of British, French and Israeli forces in Egypt due to U.S. pressure. President Eisenhower is reelected by a tremendous majority.
1956	December 9	Hungarian Workers Councils call a general strike. The government declares them dissolved and institutes martial law.
1956	December 12	By a vote of 55 to 8, the U.N. General Assembly condemns Soviet intervention in Hungary.
1957
1957	January 10	Harold Macmillan replaces Sir Anthony Eden as British Prime Minister.
1957	January 15	President Nasser decides to “Egyptianize” all foreign controlled firms, insurance companies and commercial enterprises in Egypt.
1957	January 26	Hungary increases arrests of the government's critics, including writers and journalists.
1957	February 5	The United States offers to support an extended program of nuclear energy production in Europe.
1957	February 27	In a closed session in Peking, Mao Tse-Tung says that contradictions can and do exist between the rulers and the masses in Socialist societies.
1957	March 6	The Gold Coast becomes the sovereign state of Ghana.
1957	March 7	The U.S. Congress approves the Eisenhower doctrine, whereby U.S. armed force will be used to aid any Middle Eastern nation against Communist aggression.
1957	March 13	Manifesto signed by atomic scientists from East and West Germany against strategic and tactical atomic weapons.
1957	March 14	The Congress Party triumphs in India's legislative elections, except in the state of Kerala.
1957	March 25	6 European powers sign treaties creating the European Economic Community (common market) and European Community of Atomic Energy (Euratom) in Rome.
1957	April 5	Chancellor Adenauer claims the right for the West German army to have strategic atomic weapons.
1957	April 12	18 West German atomic scientists oppose providing the new German army with atomic weapons.
1957	April 13	Norway refuses to store atomic weapons on its soil.
1957	May 11	President Eisenhower and Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam agree to cooperate against Communism.
1957	May 16	First British thermonuclear explosion at Christmas Island in the Pacific.
1957	June 12	“Atlas,” the first intercontinental ballistic missile, is launched at Cape Canaveral.
1957	July 2	Earthquake in Iran kills more than 1,500 persons and makes 10,000 homeless.
1957	July 12	Malaysia is granted independence.
1957	July 24	Floods in China claim 1,000 lives and render 1,000,000 homeless.
1957	July 25	The Tunisian National Constituent Assembly deposes the bey of Tunis and proclaims a republic with Habib Bourguiba as its first president.
1957	July 26	President Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatamala is assassinated by one of his own guards.
1957	August 27	The U.S.S.R. successfully launches a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile.
1957	September 19	First underground atomic explosion near Las Vegas
1957	September 25	Arkansas National Guard, on orders from Gov Faubus, prevent integration of Little Rock Centrai High School. President Eisenhower then orders U.S. army units to escort 9 black students to the school.
1957	October 4	The U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, the first artificial earth satellite.
1957	November 3	The U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik II with a dog aboard.
1957	November 16	Communist parties of 64 nations meeting in Moscow adopt a resolution emphasizing “the unity of viewpoints on all questions discussed.” Yugoslavia refuses to sign.
1957	December 13-17	Earthquakes in Iran kill nearly 1,500 persons.
1957	December 17	Successful testing of “Atlas,” American short-range intercontinental ballistic missile.
1958
1958	January 13	9,325 scientists from 43 nations sign a petition to the U.N. Secretary General urging an immediate halt to nuclear weapons tests.
1958	January 31	Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite, is launched.
1958	February 2	54 members, among them three ministers, are excluded from the National People's Congress of Communist China for showing “rightist” opinions.
1958	March 27	N. Khrushchev is elected Premier of the U.S.S.R. upon Bulganin's resignation.
1958	March 28	Gromyko announces the U.S.S.R.'s unilateral decision to halt all nuclear testing and calls on U.S. and Great Britain to do the same.
1958	April 1	Rebel leader Fidel Castro opens hostilities against the regime of President Batista in Cuba.
1958	April 17	In Paris, the Defense Ministers of all NATO countries approve the Norstad Plan providing for thirty divisions equipped with strategic atomic weapons.
1958	April 23	The U.S. Air Force launches a two-stage missile with a 5,000 mile range.
1958	April 28	Nobel prize-winner Dr. Linus Pauling says that radio-activity already in the air from nuclear weapons will cause 5 million genetically defective births and millions of leukemia and cancer cases in the future.
1958	April 28 – May 15	Vice-President Nixon, on a goodwill tour of South America, is widely attacked and abused.
1958	May 13	French troops in Algeria rebel against the Paris government, seize control of Algiers and demand return of General de Gaulle as French premier and leader of a government of public safety.
1958	June 1	General de Gaulle becomes French Premier as a result of the Algerian crisis.
1958	June 18	Explosion of the most powerful American hydrogen bomb to date, in Eniwetok, the Marshall Islands.
1958	July 14	Iraqi monarchy is overthrown by a military revolt. King Faisal, his uncle the Crown Prince, and the Premier are assassinated.
1958	July 15	U.S. marines begin landing at Beirut, Lebanon, in support of the government of President Chamoun.
1958	July 26	Successful launching of “Explorer IV,” the fourth successful U.S. earth satellite.
1958	July 29	President Eisenhower signs bill creating the National Aeronautic and Space Administration.
1958	August 1	U.S. missile-borne atomic weapon is detonated at high altitude over the Pacific, followed by a second warhead on the 12th.
1958	August 7	2 American atomic submarines cross the North Pole under the icecap.
1958	August 20	In Brazzaville, General de Gaulle offers French African Territories either complete independence or a part in a “federal community” under French leadership.
1958	August 22	The United States and Great Britain propose a joint ban on all nuclear weapons tests for one year.
1958	August 23	The Chinese Communists begin their full-scale shelling of Quemoy, lasting 6 weeks.
1958	September 19	A new series of U.S. nuclear tests is inaugurated in Nevada.
1958	October 2	The Republic of Guinea is proclaimed.
1958	October 9	Death of Pope Pius XII.
1958	October 23	Boris Pasternak wins the Nobel Prize for literature but is forced to refuse the award on the 29th due to the hostile reaction of Soviet leaders.
1958	October 28	Election of Pope John XXIII.
1958	November 8	The third moon rocket, launched at Cape Canaveral, disintegrates after reaching an altitude of only 1,000 miles.
1958	November 17	Military coup in the Sudan.
1958	December 6	U.S., Britain and U.S.S.R. agree at Geneva on the first article of a proposed nuclear weapons tests ban treaty.
1958	December 13	A “Jupiter” rocket with a monkey aboard is launched from Cape Canaveral.
1958	December 21	General de Gaulle is overwhelmingly elected President of the Fifth Republic.
1959
1959	January 1	Cuban rebel forces led by Fidel Castro seize power throughout the island; dictator Fulgencio Batista flees. The 6-nation European Economic Community (Common Market) and Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) come into effect.
1959	January 2	The U.S.S.R. launches the first lunar rocket. On January 7, it goes into orbit around the sun and thus becomes the first man-made planet.
1959	January 3	Alaska becomes the forty-ninth American state.
1959	January 8	General Charles de Gaulle becomes the first President of France's Fifth Republic.
1959	February 14	Joint U.S.S.R.-Communist China statement proclaims “unbreakable unity” of the 2 countries.
1959	February 18	French troops enter Congo Republic at request of the government to suppress rioting in Brazzaville.
1959	February 26	Extension of fighting throughout Central Africa. State of emergency is proclaimed in Southern Rhodesia, and 435 nationalist leaders are arrested.
1959	March 4	“Pioneer IV,” U.S. lunar probe, passes the moon and heads into orbit around the sun.
1959	March 11	President Eisenhower refuses to rule out a nuclear war if hostilities should develop over Berlin.
1959	March 19-23	Armed Tibetan revolt against Communist Chinese occupation forces. On the 28th, China dissolves the Tibetan local government of the Dalai Lama, who escapes to India on the 31st.
1959	March 27	A cyclone ravages Madagascar, more than 160,000 victims.
1959	April 8	NASA presents to the U.S. Congress a long-range program for space exploration. On the 9th, the first seven “astronauts” are selected.
1959	May 4	Negotiations in Geneva to ban nuclear weapons tests resume.
1959	May 8	Prime Minister Nehru warns Communist China against “warlike speeches” threatening India.
1959	May 17	Nationalist China's Matsu Islands undergo large-scale artillery bombardment from the Communist mainland.
1959	May 18	Foreign Ministers' Conference in Geneva deadlocked over conflicting East-West proposals for settling German security problems.
1959	May 18-23	Third Congress of Soviet writers. The delegates complain of the “grayness” of their literature and the lack of responsibility among writers.
1959	May 24	Death of John Foster Dulles.
1959	June 9	Launching of the “George Washington,” the first atomic submarine with ballistic missiles.
1959	June 11	President Eisenhower announces plans to equip Greece with nuclear weapons and to train Greek troops in their use.
1959	June 15	U.S. Congress authorizes $230 million for construction of 8 nuclear power plants.
1959	July 28	Continued clashes in the Congo claim 35 lives
1959	August 1	Fifth World Conference against atomic weapons in Hiroshima.
1959	August 4	Rebellion in Laos; the government declares a state of emergency on September 5.
1959	August 20	Severe typhoon on the China coast kills 2,334 persons.
1959	August 21	Hawaii becomes the fiftieth state.
1959	August 25	The United States grants economic and military aid to Laos because of North Vietnamese “aggression.”
1959	August 28	U.S.S.R. extends nuclear test ban on the condition that U.S. and Britain do the same.
1959	August 29	Prime Minister Nehru tells Indian Parliament of “continuing cases of aggression” by the Chinese in North India.
1959	September 15-27	Premier Khrushchev on official visit to the U.S.
1959	September 16	President de Gaulle gives Algeria the right to choose its political future by referendum.
1959	September 18	Khrushchev proposes to the U.N. General Assembly that all nations abolish their weapons and armed forces within 4 years.
1959	September 22	Inauguration of the first underwater telephone cable between Europe and the United States.
1959	September 25	Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike of Ceylon is assassinated by Buddhist monks.
1959	September 26	Typhoon “Vera” devastates Japan, 5,000 persons killed
1959	October 1	Premier Khrushchev, attending China's 10th anniversary celebrations, advises Communist world against testing the solidity of the capitalist regime by force.
1959	October 6	Lunik-III, the third Soviet lunar missile, circles the moon and photographs the far side of the moon for the first time.
1959	October 10	First round-the-world jet passenger service is inaugurated.
1959	October 20	Chinese forces kill 17 Indian border police along the Sino-Indian border in Ladakh (Kashmir).
1959	October 30	Communist China makes public its claim to more than 6,000 sq. miles of Indian-controlled territory in Ladakh.
1959	November 12	State of emergency in Ruanda due to tribal warfare. Pakistan and U.S. sign treaty of friendship and commerce.
1959	November 20	U.S.-U.S.S.R. resolution for “general and complete disarmament” unanimously adopted by U.N. general assembly. U.N. resolution sponsored by Arab-Asian nations asks France to cancel its projected nuclear tests in the Sahara.
1959	December 3	President Eisenhower leaves for a 3 week goodwill tour of 11 countries in Asia, North Africa and Europe.
1959	December 10	President Eisenhower tells Indian Parliament that U.S. will defend its friends and allies against aggression.
1959	December 21	Nehru rejects proposal by Premier Chou En-lai for Indian-Chinese summit talks on border dispute until an “opportune time.”
1959	December 29	U.S. announces it reserves the right to resume nuclear testing after December 31, 1959.
1960
1960	January 1	Independence of Cameroon marked by renewed violence.
1960	January 21	Soviet rocket fired nearly 8,000 miles to within 1 1/2 miles of its target in the central Pacific.
1960	January 24	State of siege is declared in Algiers as result of rebellion by rightist European residents in favor of a French Algeria.
1960	February 1	Communist win 40% of the popular vote in elections in the state of Kerala, India.
1960	February 2	Negroes begin a series of sit-in demonstrations to desegregate lunch counters and similar facilities in southern U.S.
1960	February 13	Successful explosion of a French plutonium bomb at Reggan in the French Sahara.
1960	February 17	Khrushchev and Nehru pledge continued U.S.S.R.-Indian cooperation for economic development, disarmament and peace.
1960	February 21	President Eisenhower asserts that the U.S. has “an indestructible force of incalculable power.”
1960	February 29	Violent earthquakes followed by tidal waves virtually destroy Moroccan city of Agadir, 20,000 dead.
1960	March 2	General Norstad reveals the formation of an integrated NATO task force armed with conventional and nuclear weapons.
1960	March 15	Geneva disarmament conference of 10 nations opens.
1960	March 21	Violent riots in South Africa, more than 50 dead.
1960	April 1	Explosion of France's second nuclear device in Reggan Official protests from Japan, Ghana and the Sudan.
1960	April 7	South African police arrest more than 1,500 Africans.
1960	April 9	Assassination attempt against Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa.
1960	April 24	Violent earthquakes in Iran. The town of Ler is destroyed.
1960	April 25	Chou-Nehru talks on the border dispute between China and India fail.
1960	April 27	Independence of Togo.
1960	May 5	Premier Khrushchev announces that a U.S. U-2 plane used for photographic reconnaissance was shot down inside Soviet territory on May 1. On May 7, he announces the capture of the pilot.
1960	May 6	President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 providing for federal referees to register Negro voters.
1960	May 10	The U.S. atomic submarine Triton ends its round the world tour in eighty-four days after surfacing twice. U.S. government pledges to defend its allies if attacked by Soviet missiles.
1960	May 16	The Big Four summit conference in Paris disbands at the outset due to Khrushchev's refusal to participate without an American apology for the U-2 incident.
1960	May 20	Atlas ICBM fired more than 9,000 miles from Cape Canaveral to the Indian Ocean.
1960	May 21-27	Violent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions ravage Chili and provoke a tidal wave that batters Pacific coastal areas. More than 6,000 dead in Chile, Hawaii and Japan, $600 million damage.
1960	May 23	Top Nazi murderer Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by Israelis and taken to Israel for trial.
1960	June 2	53 French youth movements take a common position for the first time, asking for the Algerian War to cease.
1960	June 20	Independence of Mali.
1960	June 23	Patrice Lumumba named to form the first government of the Belgian Congo in Leopoldville.
1960	June 26	Independence of Somaliland. Independence of the Malagasy Republic.
1960	June 27	The ten-nation East-West disarmament conference in Geneva fails when Soviet and four East European delegations walk out.
1960	June 30	Independence of the Republic of The Congo (formerly Belgian Congo).
1960	July 2	State of emergency in the Dominican Republic.
1960	July 11	Katanga declared independent by Moise Tshombe, its premier.
1960	July 12	Congolese government asks for U.N. forces to intervene as mutiny by Congolese troops continues; Europeans flee the Congo in large numbers.
1960	July 14	John F. Kennedy is named Democratic candidate for U.S. President.
1960	July 20	Ceylon's “Freedom Party” wins in general election. Mme. Sirimavo Bandaranaike sworn in as Ceylon's first woman prime minister.
1960	July 27	Richard M. Nixon is named Republican candidate for President.
1960	August 1	Independence of Dahomey.
1960	August 3	Independence of Niger.
1960	August 5	Independence of Upper Volta.
1960	August 7	Fidel Castro nationalizes U.S. property and enterprises in Cuba worth $770,000,000. Independence of the Ivory Coast.
1960	August 11	Independence of Chad.
1960	August 13	Independence of the Central African Republic.
1960	August 15	Independence of the former French Congo.
1960	August 16	Independence of Cyprus.
1960	August 17	Independence of Gabon.
1960	September 3	Violent fighting in the Congo between the followers of Lumumba and of Kasavubu.
1960	September 8	East Germany announces permanent restriction on entry of West Germans into East Berlin.
1960	September 9-12	Most destructive hurricane in U.S. history ravages the east coast.
1960	September 14	Colonel Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese Army, seizes power and orders arrest of Premier Lumumba.
1960	September 20	Cyprus and 13 African states admitted to the U.N. General Assembly. Caretaker government of students takes over administration of the Congo under Mobutu.
1960	September 27	3-power negotiations on banning of nuclear tests resumed in Geneva.
1960	October 1	Independence of Nigeria.
1960	October 10-31	Massive floods, cyclone and tidal waves in East Pakistan kill 10,000.
1960	November 8	John F. Kennedy is elected President of the United States by a narrow margin.
1960	November 21	Fighting breaks out between U.N. forces and the Congo army for the first time.
1960	November 28	Independence of Mauritania.
1960	December 5	In a Moscow manifesto, 81 Communist parties pledge Communist world victory by peaceful means, if possible, and by war if necessary.
1960	December 6	President de Gaulle's plan for an independent atomic striking force becomes law without direct approval of the French senate and assembly.
1960	December 9-13	Violent rioting in Algeria by European residents against President de Gaulle's Algeria policy on the occasion of his visit; more than 100 dead.
1960	December 19	Signing of a Soviet-Cuban economic agreement.
1960	December 20	Referendum on Algeria: President de Gaulle asks for “a frank and massive yes” concerning the self-determination of the Algerian people.
1960	December 27	Explosion of the third French atomic bomb in Reggan.