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Sen passes Const amendment giving citizens right to vote in Pres elections; Cong action completed
Powers' father writes convicted USSR spy Col Abel suggesting he will seek US permission to exch him for son; Abel's atty repts US informed him he would be notified of Govt decision in few days
Washington officials concede blow to US prestige from cancellation of Eisenhower visit to Japan because of Leftist mob demonstrations
Right-wing Eurs and Moslems backing Algerian ties to France link in common front, Front for French Algeria, replacing most Right-wing splinter orgns; score de Gaulle policy; anti-Gaullist feeling high, Oran
BRT internatl pres Kennedy orders 2 LI lodges to postpone strike against LIRR; H Pryor, gen chmn of lodges, says he will resume talks with rr
1960Adrián Campos, Spanish race car driver (died 2021)[†]
Adrián Campos Suñer was a Spanish Formula One driver. He participated in 21 Grands Prix, debuting on 12 April 1987, without scoring a championship point. He later moved into team management, with more success. He was the founder of the Campos Meta Formula One team, which competed in Formula One from 2010 to 2012. He founded Campos Racing in 1998.
1960Thomas Haden Church, American actor[†]
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor. After starring in the 1990s sitcom Wings and playing the lead for two seasons in Ned & Stacey (1995–1997), Church became known for his film work, including his role of Lyle van de Groot in George of the Jungle (1997), his Academy Award–nominated performance in Sideways (2004), his role as the Marvel Comics villain Sandman in the superhero films Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), as well as his starring roles in Over the Hedge (2006), Smart People (2008), Easy A (2010), We Bought a Zoo (2011), Max (2015), and Hellboy (2019). He also made his directorial debut with Rolling Kansas (2003). In 2023, he starred as antagonist Agent Stone in the post-apocalyptic action comedy series Twisted Metal.
1960The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.[†]
The Nez Perce are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still live on a fraction of the lands on the southeastern Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest. This region has been occupied for at least 11,500 years.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]