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Spagna resigns, lr to Wagner; defends self; Wagner accepts resignation; says he acts on basis of Kaplan rept, news conf; silent on queries on Comm rept; indicates R J Browne will take Spagna post
Congo troops beat and manhandle 8 Canadians attached to UN, Leopoldville airport; withdraw from airport at UN demand; details; Bunche snubbed in attempt to see Lumumba; comments on incident; tells of other victims of Congolese mistreatment; Timberlake thwarted by guard from keeping apptmt with Lumumba; returns after new inv; US newsman W Drake arrested while en route to Nigeria; other incidents
Sen passes bill to raise minimum to $1.25 by '63 for those already covered and by '64 for 4.1 million newly covered; some 800,000 employers exempted; auto dealers employes erroneously exempted
compromise sought by Min Turbay (Colombia); would link Herter proposal for supervised free elections in Dominican Repub with sanctions; Min Roa (Cuba) urges US be condemned along with Dominican Repub; Herter says he echoes USSR; break in all but consular relations seen; proposed econ sanctions discussed
Powers admits knowing flight was intelligence mission to get data on USSR missiles; admits flight did US 'ill service'; blames 'people who sent me'; says plane was hit at 68,000-ft; wife confs with Grinyov; ct room illus
1960Morten Andersen, Danish-American football player[†]
Morten Andersen, nicknamed "the Great Dane", is a Danish-American former professional football kicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 25 seasons, most notably with the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons. Following a career from 1982 to 2007, Andersen holds the NFL record for regular season games played at 382. He also ranks second in field goals (565) and points scored (2,544). In addition to his league accomplishments, he is the Saints all-time leading scorer at 1,318 points. Andersen was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017. Along with Jan Stenerud, he is one of only two exclusive kickers to receive the honor.
1960Ron Darling, American baseball player and commentator[†]
Ronald Maurice Darling Jr. is a retired American professional baseball pitcher and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher from 1983 to 1995, including as a member of the New York Mets team that won the 1986 World Series. Since 2006, he has been the co-lead color commentator for Mets broadcasts on SNY alongside former teammate Keith Hernandez.
1960Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.[†]
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed the "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high–altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the 1950s. Designed for all-weather, day-and-night intelligence gathering at altitudes above 70,000 feet, 21,300 meters), the U-2 has played a pivotal role in aerial surveillance for decades.
1960Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.[†]
Sputnik is a name for multiple spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the official Soviet names of those objects, and the remaining designations in the series were not official names but names applied in the West to objects whose original Soviet names may not have been known at the time.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]