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| years: | 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
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| decades: | 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Events
- The historical drama film The Alamo is released.[1][2]
- The science fiction film The Time Machine is released.[3][2]
- On Miri, the life prolongation project goes disastrously wrong and begins killing off the planet's adult population.[4]
- Manufacture of the Edsel, a Ford Motor Company vehicle, ends.[5]
- Ted Williams stops playing for the Boston Red Sox.[5]
- Earth-based radio telescopes are used to listen for evidence of radio signals from Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani as part of Project Ozma, one of Earth's first attempts to search for extraterrestrial life.[6]
People
Births and deaths
- Clark Gable dies.[5]
- Zora Neale Hurston dies.[5]
References and Notes
Connections
- 1960 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- 1960 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.