WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1960
Find out what all happened September to November 1960

USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. (24. September 1960)

At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals. (4. November 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)

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)

The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation. (22. September 1960)

The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft. (3. November 1960)

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

Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case. (2. November 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)

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)

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

While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps. (1. November 1960)

The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome. (5. September 1960)

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

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

Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R. (26. September 1960)

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