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The Fantasticks

In May 1960 the musical “The Fantasticks” opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. Its feature song “Try to Remember” became very popular.

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U2 Spy Plane Incident

In May 1960 a Soviet missile shot down an American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory near Sverdlovsk.

In February 1962, Powers was exchanged, along with a U.S. student for Soviet KGB Colonel William Fisher.

Sverdlosk

Source: Wikipedia

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The Cranes Are Flying

Source: The Cranes are flying trailer – Google Search

TheSoviet film The Cranes Are Flying won the Palme d’Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

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Protests Force South Korean President to Resign

Syngman Rhee, hardline anti-communist and pro-American, was president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960. 

Rhee’s government was characterised by authoritarianism, limited economic development, and growing public opposition.

After his opponent died, and Rhee won an uncontested election in March 1960, the opposition rejected the result. Protests escalated into the student-led April Revolution when police shot demonstrators, forcing Rhee to resign.

After Rhee’s resignation authoritarianism continued in South Korea until 1988.

Source: Wikipedia

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First Kidney Dialysis Shunt

In March 1960 the first kidney dialysis shunt, developed by Dr. Belding H. Scribner, was planted in a kidney patient in Seattle Washington.

The process, enabling ambulatory dialysis, first developed in the 1940s by Dr. Willem J. Kolff, had prevously been restricted to operating rooms.

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Thanksgiving Day Parade 1960

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French Ship Explodes in Havana

In March 1960 the French cargo ship “La Coubre” exploded in Havana Harbor while a cargo of Belgian grenades and munitions was being unloaded. 136 people were killed, and many were injured.

Fidel Castro alleged the explosion was an act of sabotage by the United States, which denied any involvement.

Source: Wikipedia

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USA Olympic Hockey Team Defeats Soviets

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In February 1960 the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif.

The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.

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Gerboise Bleue – French Nuclear Test

In February 1960, during the Algerian War (1954-62) France detonated an atomic bomb in the middle of the Algerian Sahara desert.

Gerboise is the French word for  a desert rodent found in the Sahara. The color Bleue came from the first color of the French Flag.

This and 16 subsequent explosions of nuclear weapons in Algeria were seen as a display of French strength and development.

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Source: Wikipedia

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WW2 Vets 1960 Interviews

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