Timeline November 1960

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• 1880 – 1960 Mack Sennett (1880-1960) Died 5 November 1960, aged 80 Film producer and director known as the "King of Comedy," who pioneered slapstick filmmaking and launched the Keystone Kops. He helped shape the early Hollywood studio system.
• 1880 – 1960 Otto Frederick Rohwedder Inventor of the bread slicer, 1880-1960 An Iowa jeweller who spent sixteen years, one factory fire and every penny he had on a machine to slice a loaf of bread.
• 1901 – 1960 Clark Gable (1901-1960) Died 16 November 1960, aged 59 American film actor known as "The King of Hollywood," celebrated for his role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. He died of a heart attack shortly after completing filming of The Misfits.
• 1903 – 1960 Ward Bond (1903-1960) American actor, part of John Ford's stock company and star of Wagon Train.
• 1908 – 1960 Richard Wright (1908-1960) Died 28 November 1960, aged 52 American author of Native Son and Black Boy, whose work exposed the brutal realities of racism in the United States. He died in Paris, where he had lived as an expatriate since 1946.
• 1960 Year of Africa Seventeen African nations gain independence Seventeen African territories, including Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Madagascar, Somalia and Cameroon, gain independence from Britain, France and Belgium over the course of the year. The wave of decolonization permanently reshapes the continent's political map.
• 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial Penguin Books acquitted over D.H. Lawrence novel Penguin Books is acquitted of obscenity charges for publishing D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in an unexpurgated edition. The verdict marks a turning point in British censorship law and publishing freedom.
• 1960 Ward Bond dies in Dallas Ward Bond dies aged 57.
• 1960 Kennedy elected US president Youngest person elected to the presidency John F. Kennedy narrowly defeats Richard Nixon in the US presidential election. At 43, he becomes the youngest person ever elected to the presidency.
• 1960 Ray Charles tops the charts with Georgia on My Mind Number one His first pop number one.
• 1960 – 1999 John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999) Died 16 July 1999, aged 38 John F. Kennedy Jr., son of President John F. Kennedy, died when the small plane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren also died in the crash. The loss received extensive international media coverage.