A Japanese company introduces the first felt-tip pen.
Xerox introduces the first production paper copier machine.
The U.S. launches Echo I, the world's first communication satellite.
The soviets shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane and capture the pilot, Capt. Gary Powers. The U.S. is thus forced to admit to spying on the Soviet Union. In response, Premier Khrushchev cancels a Paris summit meeting with President Eisenhower.
Television may have given Senator Kennedy the edge he needed to defeat Vice President Nixon in the first televised presidential debate. Kennedy wins by a margin of 113,000 votes (out of 69 million votes cast).
Outgoing-President Eisenhower warns against the "military-industrial-complex" that attempts to maintain high levels of defense spending.
95% of soft drinks sold in the U.S. are furnished in reusable bottles. But in 1960 aluminum cans are used for the first time.
In 1960 Howard Johnson had 607 independently owned restaurants, making it the largest private food distributor in the country.
Thomas S. Monaghan, borrows $500 to buy a pizza parlor in Detroit, and renames it "Domino's."
In February, U.S. blacks begin "sit-in" demonstrations at Greensboro, N.C., lunch counters. The city desegregates eating places in July.
Chubby Checker introduces The Twist at the Peppermint Lounge in New York.
"Camelot," "The Fantastics" and "Oliver" open in New York.
Castro nationalizes all banks and most industrial and commercial enterprises. This is Castro's communism.
The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Yankees to win the 1960 World Series.
Floyd Patterson defeats Ingemar Johansson to regain the heavyweight championship.
2,000 computers are delivered in the U.S.
The Academy award for Best Picture goes to "The Apartment."
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