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September 14, 1960

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Headlines from September 14, 1960

SOVIET PROTESTS U.S. TRAVEL BAN FOR KHRUSHCHEV; State Department Rejects Note and Asserts Curbs Are Not Hindrance PREMIER SCORES ACTION Calls Limitation Unlawful -- Complaint Is Regarded as Propaganda Move SOVIET PROTESTS U.S. TRAVEL BAN

By William J. Jordenspecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- The Soviet Union filed a vigorous protest with the United States today against restrictions placed on Premier Khrushchev's travels during the United Nations General Assembly.

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U.S. SUIT CHARGES AN ECONOMIC BAR TO NEGRO VOTING; Tennessee Action Accuses 27 Persons and 2 Banks of Exerting Pressure AN INJUNCTION SOUGHT Georgia Registrars Ordered by a Federal Judge to End Discrimination Suit by U.S. Charges Coercion To Discourage Vote by Negroes

By Anthony Lewisspecial To the New York Times

Justice Dept charges 27 persons and 2 banks in Haywood County with using econ pressures to keep Negroes from voting; sues for injunction under '57 Civil Rights Act; charges detailed

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Notable Births

1960Ronald Lengkeek, Dutch footballer[†]

Ronald Lengkeek is a Dutch former footballer who played all of his career for Sparta Rotterdam.

Melissa Leo

1960Melissa Leo, American actress[†]

Melissa Chessington Leo is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards.

Callum Keith Rennie

1960Callum Keith Rennie, English-Canadian actor and producer[†]

Callum Keith Rennie is a Canadian actor, based in British Columbia. His breakthrough role was as punk rocker Billy Tallent in the music mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996), followed by a starring role as Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the third and fourth seasons of the television series Due South (1997–99). He then won a Genie Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the Don McKellar film Last Night (1998).

Notable Deaths

M. Karagatsis

1960M. Karagatsis, Greek author, playwright, and critic (born 1908)[†]

M. Karagatsis was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitrios Rodopoulos. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitya, which is the Russian diminutive of Dimitris. The word "Karagatsis" comes from the tree karagatsi under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer.

Historical Events

OPEC

1960The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.[†]

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively influence the global oil market and maximize profit. It was founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. The organization, which currently comprises 12 member countries, accounted for 38 percent of global oil production, according to a 2022 report. Additionally, it is estimated that 79.5 percent of the world's proven oil reserves are located within OPEC nations, with the Middle East alone accounting for 67.2 percent of OPEC's total reserves.

Congo Crisis

1960Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.[†]

The Congo Crisis was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo. The crisis began almost immediately after the Congo became independent from Belgium and ended, unofficially, with the entire country under the rule of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. Constituting a series of civil wars, the Congo Crisis was also a proxy conflict in the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union and the United States supported opposing factions. Around 100,000 people are believed to have been killed during the crisis.

Historical Context for September 14, 1960

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