WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1960
Find out what all happened March to October 1960

Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash (24. October 1960)

New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7.30 pm from Auckland. (1. June 1960)

The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland. (26. June 1960)

Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. (6. August 1960)

At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. (15. April 1960)

Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. (1. August 1960)

An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. (22. May 1960)

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

Mali and Senegal join the United Nations. (28. September 1960)

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

Chad declares independence. (11. August 1960)

The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. (10. May 1960)

The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. (1. April 1960)

In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office. (27. May 1960)

Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer called David Pratt in Johannesburg. (9. April 1960)

Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. (1. August 1960)

Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. (19. April 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)

Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution. (14. September 1960)

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