Timeline August 1960

Events in August 1960 10

• 1960 The Beatles name adopted First Hamburg residency begins By August 1960 the group had settled on the name The Beatles — a pun on "beat" inspired by Buddy Holly's Crickets. Drummer Pete Best was hired and the five-piece departed Liverpool for their first Hamburg residency, playing eight-hour sets in clubs.
• 1960 US Championships 1960 Men: Neale Fraser · Women: Darlene Hard
• 1960 Cuba nationalizes US-owned businesses Havana seizes American oil, sugar and utility firms Cuba's revolutionary government nationalizes American-owned oil refineries, sugar mills and other enterprises without compensation. The move sharply escalates hostility between Havana and Washington in the months before the Bay of Pigs invasion.
• 1960 – present Antonio Banderas Hollywood Star Actor and director who achieved international success in both Spanish and American cinema.
• 1960 – 2010 Laurent Fignon The Professor Won the Tour twice; famously lost the 1989 Tour by 8 seconds. Winner: 2x Tour de France.
• 1960 Cyprus becomes independent Archbishop Makarios III becomes first president Cyprus becomes an independent republic after British colonial rule, with Archbishop Makarios III as its first president. The Zurich and London Agreements establish the island's new constitutional framework.
• 1960 Paul McCartney goes to Hamburg with the Beatles Indra Club The Beatles play months of all-night sets in Hamburg.
• 1960 1960 Summer Olympics XVII Olympiad - Rome Muhammad Ali won gold in light heavyweight. Winner: Soviet Union.
• 1960 – present Jonas Gahr Støre Current Prime Minister The current Prime Minister of Norway, leading the Labor party.
• 1960 – 2024 Hassan Nasrallah (1960-2024) Died 27 September 2024, aged 64 Lebanese secretary-general of Hezbollah for over three decades, killed by an Israeli air strike on Beirut.