Timeline July 1960

Events in July 1960 8

• 1897 – 1960 Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960) Died 6 July 1960, aged 62 Welsh Labour politician who, as Minister of Health, founded Britain's National Health Service in 1948. He died of cancer at his farm in Buckinghamshire.
• 1960 Greensboro sit-ins begin Student protest against segregated lunch counters spreads Four Black college students stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The protest sparks a wave of similar sit-ins across the American South and energizes the civil rights movement.
• 1960 Miles Davis releases Sketches of Spain With Gil Evans Spanish music arranged by Gil Evans.
• 1960 Wimbledon 1960 Men: Neale Fraser · Women: Maria Bueno
• 1960 Muddy Waters plays the Newport Jazz Festival At Newport 1960 A live album that brings him to the white folk audience.
• 1960 Congo Crisis erupts Katanga secedes and Lumumba is ousted Days after independence, the mineral-rich province of Katanga secedes under Moise Tshombe, and army mutinies plunge the new Congolese state into chaos. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is dismissed in September amid the turmoil, drawing in UN peacekeepers and Cold War rivalries.
• 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird published Harper Lee's novel wins the Pulitzer Prize Harper Lee publishes To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel about racial injustice in the American South seen through a child's eyes. The book wins the Pulitzer Prize and becomes a landmark of American literature.
• 1960 Arrives at Gombe Stream -- July 1960 On 14 July 1960, the 26-year-old Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, accompanied by her mother. For months the chimpanzees fled from her. She persisted, observing from a distance with binoculars, slowly earning the trust of the community she would study for the next sixty years.