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Sen Kennedy urges more Polaris submarines
ferryboat Knickerbocker damaged by bomb, NY harbor; no injuries; illus
Bangue de Paris et des Pays-Bas, biggest privately held financial inst in France, opens investment banking subsidiary, Paribas Corp, in NYC, 1st such move by foreign co in recent yrs; details; reaction; earlier links between Eur investment cos and US revd
Wagner reptd ready to give agency heads discretion to approve outside jobs
Rockefeller, J Robinson stump Bklyn by lay preaching at 4 Negro chs; illus
1960Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer and sportscaster[†]
Ian Michael Baker-Finch is an Australian golfer and sports commentator best known for winning The Open Championship in 1991.
1960Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (died 1999)[†]
Jaime Hernando Garzón Forero was a Colombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist. He was popular on Colombian television during the 1990s for his unique political satire. In addition to his work on television, he also had roles as a peace negotiator in the release of FARC guerrillas' hostages.
1960Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver[†]
Joachim Winkelhock is a German motor racing driver. He competed in and won German Formula Three before moving onto Formula One. Winkelhock would compete in the 1989 season of F1 with the Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives where he would fail to qualify for a race before being replaced mid season with driver Yannick Dalmas. After his brief stint in Formula One Winkelhock would later race in Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft until 2003. The height of Winkelhock's career was his 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans win for BMW. Winkelhock is part of a racing family with his late older brother Manfred Winkelhock, his younger brother, Thomas Winkelhock, and his nephew, son of Manfred, Markus Winkelhock all being racing drivers.
1960BD Wong, American actor[†]
Bradley Darryl Wong is an American actor. Wong won a Tony Award for his performance as Song Liling in M. Butterfly, becoming the only actor in Broadway history to receive the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role. For his role as Whiterose in the television series Mr. Robot, he was nominated for both a Critic's Choice Television Award and an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
1960Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin Prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (born 1924)[†]
Yevgeny Ilyich Ostashev, was the test pilot of rocket and space technology, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, head of the 1st control polygon NIIP-5 (Baikonur), Lenin Prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences, engineer-podpolkovnik.
1960Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100 people, including Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin.[†]
The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome, was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan. As a prototype of the R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile was being prepared for a test flight, an explosion occurred when the second stage engine ignited accidentally, killing an unknown number of military and technical personnel working on the preparations. Despite the magnitude of the disaster, information was suppressed for many years and the Soviet government did not acknowledge the event until 1989. With more than 54 recognized casualties, it is the deadliest disaster in space exploration history. The catastrophe is named for the Chief Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin, who was the head of the R-16 development program and perished in the explosion.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]