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Vice Pres Nixon warns of lax enforcement of '59 Reform Law under Dem Labor Sec 'dominated' by W P Reuther
MPs E Shinwell and S Silverman lead opposition to accord, Commons; MP L Hale says US statement suggests US assumes it can use missiles from Brit waters without consultation; Labor MPs motion barred because MP H Gaitskell did not support it; demonstration, Greenock, Scotland, opposes base
Madison Sq Garden owners plan new $38-million sports center, NYC; drawing
Republicans are facing the strongest challenge in many years to their traditional domination of the Legislature.
1960Marc Awodey, American painter and poet (died 2012)[†]
Marc Awodey was an American contemporary artist and poet.
1960Kathy Griffin, American comedian and actress[†]
Kathleen Mary Griffin is an American comedian and actress who has starred in television series, comedy specials and has released multiple comedy albums. In 2007 and 2008, Griffin won Primetime Emmy Awards for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. She has also appeared in supporting roles in films.
1960Igor Liba, Slovak ice hockey player[†]
Igor Liba is a Slovak former professional ice hockey player. He played 37 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings during the 1988–89 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1979 to 2003, was mainly spent in the Czechoslovak Extraliga and in other European leagues. Internationally Liba played for the Czechslovakian national team in several tournaments, including the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the latter. In 2005 Liba was inducted into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the player category of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2024.
1960At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.[†]
The Kasekela chimpanzee community is a habituated community of wild eastern chimpanzees that lives in Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. The community was the subject of Jane Goodall's pioneering study that began in 1960, and studies have continued ever since, becoming the longest continuous study of any animals in their natural habitat. As a result, the community has been instrumental in the study of chimpanzees and has been popularized in several books and documentaries. The community's popularity was enhanced by Goodall's practice of giving names to the chimpanzees she was observing, in contrast to the typical scientific practice of identifying the subjects by number. Goodall generally used a naming convention in which infants were given names starting with the same letter as their mother, allowing the recognition of matrilineal lines.
In 1960, the world population was approximately 3,015,470,894 people[†]