WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1960
Find out what all happened June to October 1960

The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world. (23. June 1960)

Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. (8. July 1960)

Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom. (16. August 1960)

Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast. (12. October 1960)

Madagascar gains its independence from France. (26. June 1960)

Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. (18. September 1960)

In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. (26. September 1960)

Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. (19. August 1960)

Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board. (4. October 1960)

Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe (12. October 1960)

Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act). (4. July 1960)

Chad declares independence. (11. August 1960)

Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence. (20. August 1960)

France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina) and Niger. (11. July 1960)

Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. (30. October 1960)

Nigeria joins the United Nations. (7. October 1960)

The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time. (20. July 1960)

Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent from France. (7. August 1960)

An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio. (29. October 1960)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States. (11. July 1960)