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March 24, 1960

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ROCKEFELLER DROPS FIGHT TO REQUIRE SHELTERS IN HOME; New Program Offers Aid on Taxes to Any Who Build Refuges Voluntarily ROCKEFELLER DROPS A-SHELTER PLANS

By Warren Weaver Jr.special To the New York Times

Rockefeller withdraws program for mandatory fall-out shelters in pub and private bldgs; endorses 3 bills and 1 resolution by Repub legis leaders embodying voluntary program offering tax aid to those bldg shelters voluntarily; says Dem and Repub leaders back program; holds it step toward desired program; CD Comm to rept on need for mandatory program, '61

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Notable Births

Jan Berglin

1960Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist[†]

Jan Berglin is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion. He published his early strips in the local social democratic newspaper Arbetarbladet, but became known to a wider audience in 1995, when he started to draw for the Stockholm-based but nationally distributed conservative newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. His strips have been collected and republished in several albums.

Barry Horowitz

1960Barry Horowitz, American wrestler[†]

Barry Horowitz is an American professional wrestler, best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

Kelly LeBrock

1960Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model[†]

Kelly LeBrock is an American actress and model. Her acting debut was in The Woman in Red (1984), alongside Gene Wilder. She also starred in the John Hughes film Weird Science (1985), and in Hard to Kill (1990), opposite her then-husband Steven Seagal.

Nena

1960Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress[†]

Gabriele Susanne Kerner, better known by her stage name Nena, is a German singer who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons". In that same year, the band re-recorded this song in English as "99 Red Balloons". Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002. Combined with the success of the Nena band years, she has sold over 25 million records, making her the most successful German pop singer in chart history.

Scott Pruett

1960Scott Pruett, American race car driver[†]

Scott Donald Pruett is an American former racing driver who has competed in numerous disciplines of the sport. In the 1980s, Pruett established himself as a top sports car racer, winning two IMSA GTO, and three Trans-Am championships. Later in his career, he won five Grand-Am championships. In the 1990s, Pruett competed in CART Championship cars. After a brief stint in NASCAR, he returned to sports cars.

Annabella Sciorra

1960Annabella Sciorra, American actress[†]

Annabella Gloria Sciorra is an American actress. She came to prominence with her film debut in True Love (1989) and worked steadily throughout the 1990s in films such as Jungle Fever (1991), The Hard Way (1991), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Addiction (1995), Cop Land (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998). She received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Gloria Trillo on The Sopranos (2001–2004), appeared as Detective Carolyn Barek on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005–2006), and had recurring roles on GLOW (2018), Truth Be Told (2019–2020), and Tulsa King (2022). Her stage credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat.

Historical Context for March 24, 1960

In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]