WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1960
Find out what all happened August to November 1960

Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched. (12. August 1960)

Mauritania becomes independent of France. (28. November 1960)

The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. (25. November 1960)

A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed. (11. November 1960)

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

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. (15. August 1960)

Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy. (9. November 1960)

Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France. (5. August 1960)

The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal. (5. September 1960)

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet. (10. September 1960)

Chad declares independence. (11. August 1960)

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

Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts. (29. September 1960)

Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom. (1. October 1960)

The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day. (2. September 1960)

South Kasai secedes from the Congo. (8. August 1960)

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

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

In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight. (29. October 1960)

In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). (8. September 1960)