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Appeals Ct, 2-1, orders integration in fall of '61, thus rejecting grade-a-yr plan in effect since '59; orders Educ Bd admit to integrated classes 20 Negroes who attacked gradual plan
s, Council, on US role in Cuba and Latin Amer
repts Belgium starts withdrawing troops from Leopoldville, Congo
Tsarapkin rejects US proposal for 3-nation pool of nuclear devices for underground tests detection series, s, Geneva; blames US for treaty lack; charges Rockefeller influence; Wright replies; Washington pessimistic
F and A Pope indicted for corp violations in sale, transportation and delivery of rock salt; charged with siphoning Colonial Sand assets to benefit 7 other cos owned by Pope family, concealing operations through false statements filed with ASE and SEC and in repts to stockholders; diverted funds put at $375,000; details
1960Claudio Langes, Italian race car driver[†]
Claudio Langes is a former racing driver from Italy.
1960Prvoslav Vujčić, Serbian-Canadian poet and philosopher[†]
Prvoslav Vujcic is a Serbian Canadian writer, poet, translator, columnist and aphorist. He has been described as one of the most prominent writers of Serbian origin.
1960Sudesh Berry, Indian actor[†]
Sudesh Berry is an Indian actor and personality known for his works in Hindi cinema and Indian television.
1960Mike Witt, American baseball player[†]
Michael Atwater Witt is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball between 1981 and 1993, and threw the 11th perfect game in MLB history in 1984.
1960Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.[†]
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population. Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka.
1960The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.[†]
The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). As the United States Navy's first SLBM, it served from 1961 to 1980.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]