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UK-related events during the year of 1960
Events from the year
1960 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
January – The
state of emergency is lifted in
Kenya , the
Mau Mau Uprising is officially over.
5 January – Closure of the
Swansea and Mumbles Railway which opened to passengers in 1807 and by this date was operated by double-decker electric trams.
[1]
10 January –
Harold Macmillan makes the
"Wind of Change" speech for the first time, to little publicity, in
Accra ,
Ghana .
28 January – The comic ballet
La fille mal gardée , in a version newly choreographed by
Frederick Ashton to a score adapted by
John Lanchbery , is premiered by
The Royal Ballet at the
Royal Opera House in
London , rapidly becoming a classic of the repertoire.
[2]
[3]
3 February – Harold Macmillan makes the "Wind of Change" speech to the South African Parliament in
Cape Town where it attracts attention. (It was drafted by
David Hunt .) At home, it leads to formation of the Conservative
Monday Club .
[4]
18–28 February –
Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the
Winter Olympics in
Squaw Valley, Placer County, California but do not win any medals.
19 February – The Queen gives birth to her
third child and second son, the first child born to a reigning British monarch since 1857.
March
14 March –
Jodrell Bank Observatory makes contact with the American
Pioneer 5 over a record-breaking distance of 407,000 miles.
[7]
26 March – The
Grand National is televised for the first time. The winner is Merryman II.
[8]
28 March –
Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow. 19 firemen are killed in the UK's worst peacetime fire services disaster.
[9]
1 April – Bill Griggs of
Northampton first markets the
Dr. Martens 'AirWair' style 1460 boots.
[10]
8 April – The seven-week-old son of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh is christened Andrew Albert Christian Edward, he later becomes
Prince Andrew, Duke of York .
[11]
13 April – The cancellation of the
Blue Streak missile as a military project.
[12]
16 April –
The Times of
London abandons use of the term "Imperial and Foreign News", replacing it with "Overseas News" and changes its house style from "to-day" to "today".
17 April – American rock and roll singer
Eddie Cochran , 21, is killed in a car crash in
Wiltshire .
Gene Vincent survives the accident.
18 April – 60,000 protestors stage a demonstration in London against nuclear weapons.
[13]
27 April – The first production of
Harold Pinter 's play
The Caretaker takes place at the
Arts Theatre in
London .
[14]
30 April –
Yorkshire County Cricket Club opens its first season since 1883 under a professional captain
Vic Wilson who leads the club to the
County Championship .
[15]
3 May –
Burnley F.C. win the
Football League First Division title with a 2–1 win over
Manchester City at
Maine Road .
[16] Burnley's title win means that Wolverhampton Wanderers, the FA Cup finalists, have lost out on the chance of becoming the first team this century to win
the double of the league title and FA Cup.
[17]
6 May –
Princess Margaret marries photographer
Antony Armstrong-Jones at
Westminster Abbey in the first televised Royal marriage.
[18]
7 May –
Wolverhampton Wanderers are the FA Cup winners for the fourth time, beating
Blackburn Rovers 3–0 at
Wembley Stadium .
[17]
18 June –
Jaguar Cars completes its purchase of the
Daimler Company from
BSA . Daimler Cars would later become rebadged Jaguar's.
[19]
22 June – A fire in a
Liverpool department store kills eleven.
[20]
24 June –
Avro 748 makes its first flight from
Woodford .
26 June –
British Somaliland gains independence from the United Kingdom. Five days later, it unites with the former
Italian Somaliland to create the modern
Somali Republic .
[21]
28 June – 38 miners are killed in an explosion at
Six Bells Colliery in
Monmouthshire .
[22]
30 June
July –
The Shadows ' instrumental "
Apache " is released.
21 July –
Francis Chichester , English navigator and yachtsman, arrives in
New York aboard Gypsy Moth III, having made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days.
27 July – In a Cabinet reshuffle,
Selwyn Lloyd is appointed
Chancellor of the Exchequer and
Lord Home becomes
Foreign Secretary .
[23]
30 July – "Battle of Beaulieu": At a jazz festival at
Beaulieu, Hampshire , fans of trad jazz come to blows with progressives.
[24]
[25]
7 August – The
Bluebell Railway in
Sussex begins regular operations as the first standard gauge steam-operated passenger heritage railway in the world.
[26]
16 August –
Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
[27] The Sovereign Base Areas of
Akrotiri and Dhekelia remain as
British Overseas Territories .
17 August –
The Beatles , a five-strong male band from
Liverpool , perform their first concert under this name in
Hamburg ,
West Germany .
[28]
22 August – First performance of satirical revue
Beyond the Fringe , in
Edinburgh .
25 August–11 September –
Great Britain and Northern Ireland competes at the
Olympics in
Rome and win 2 gold, 6 silver and 12 bronze medals.
September
10 September –
ITV broadcasts the first live Football League match to be shown on television and the last for 23 years.
[1]
15 September – First
traffic wardens deployed in
London .
[1]
30 September–4 December – Severe flooding occurs in the valley of the
River Exe , surrounding areas of
Devon , and elsewhere in southern England, following heavy rainfall.
[29]
[30]
1 October –
Nigeria gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
[31]
7 October – The second notable flood occurs in
Horncastle, Lincolnshire . The town enters the
UK Weather Records with the highest 180-min total
rainfall at 178 mm. As of October 2010, this record remains.
8 October – Closure of the original
Sheffield Tramway , leaving
Blackpool as the only place in England with electric
trams .
[32]
17 October – The
News Chronicle ceases publication,
[33] being absorbed into the
Daily Mail .
21 October (
Trafalgar Day ) –
The Queen launches Britain's first
nuclear submarine ,
HMS Dreadnought , at
Barrow-in-Furness .
[23]
Damage to the
Severn Railway Bridge
25 October – Barges collide with one of the columns of the
Severn Railway Bridge in heavy fog, causing two spans of the twenty-two span steel and cast iron bridge to collapse. It is never repaired.
27 October – The film
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is released, the first of the British
social-realist wave.
30 October –
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful
kidney transplant in the UK at the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary .
1 November – Black plastic
bin bags (manufactured by
ICI ) are first introduced for
waste collection, in
Hitchin .
[19]
[34]
2 November –
Penguin Books is found not guilty of
obscenity in the
Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
[1]
10 November – Lady Chatterley's Lover sells 200,000 copies in one day following its publication since being banned since 1928.
[35]
2 December – The
Archbishop of Canterbury ,
Geoffrey Fisher , talks with
Pope John XXIII in the
Vatican , the first ever meeting between the leader of the
Anglican Church and the
Pope .
9 December – The first episode of the soap opera
Coronation Street , made by
Granada Television in Manchester, is aired on
ITV .
[1] It will still be running past its 10,000th episode in its 60th anniversary year. Characters introduced in the first episode include
Ken Barlow (
William Roache ),
Ena Sharples (
Violet Carson ),
Elsie Tanner (
Pat Phoenix ) and
Annie Walker (
Doris Speed ).
10 December – Sir
Peter Brian Medawar and Australian Sir
Frank Macfarlane Burnet win the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance".
[36]
31 December
Undated – Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the
National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of
vernacular architecture .
[38]
Publications
Births
January – February
1 January –
Danny Wilson , footballer and manager
4 January –
Jane Halton , English-Australian public servant
6 January –
Nigella Lawson , British chef and writer
10 January –
John Mann , English lawyer and politician
13 January –
Matthew Bourne , English choreographer
18 January –
Mark Rylance , English actor and theatre director
23 January
29 January –
Sean Kerly , British field hockey player
31 January –
George Benjamin , composer and conductor
4 February –
Siobhan Dowd , British writer and activist (died 2007)
6 February
10 February –
Robert Addie , actor (died 2003)
19 February
20 February –
Siobhain McDonagh , British Labour politician and MP for
Mitcham and Morden
21 February –
Jane Tomlinson , athlete and cancer activist (died 2007)
22 February –
Paul Abbott , television screenwriter and producer
March – April
1 March –
Benedict Allen , explorer
9 March –
Louise Miller , high jumper
10 March –
Anne MacKenzie , Scottish broadcast journalist
16 March
17 March –
Patrick Vallance , scientist
23 March –
Nicol Stephen , Scottish politician
24 March –
Grayson Perry , visual artist
29 March –
Marina Sirtis , actress
2 April –
Linford Christie , Jamaican-born athlete
4 April
7 April –
Sandy Powell . costume designer
11 April –
Jeremy Clarkson , journalist and television show host
13 April –
Lyn Carol Brown , Labour politician and MP for
West Ham
22 April –
Gary Rhodes , restaurateur and celebrity chef (died 2019)
26 April –
Roger Taylor , new wave drummer (
Duran Duran )
28 April –
Ian Rankin , Scottish crime novelist
29 April –
Phil King , rock bassist
30 April
May – June
6 May –
Roma Downey , Northern Irish actress and producer
8 May –
Terry Christian , broadcaster
17 May –
Simon Fuller , film and TV producer
24 May
28 May –
Mary Portas , retail expert and broadcaster
2 June
4 June
5 June
8 June –
Mick Hucknall , English singer and songwriter (
Simply Red )
10 June –
Mark-Anthony Turnage , composer
20 June –
John Taylor , English bass guitarist (
Duran Duran )
24 June –
Elish Angiolini , senior Scottish law officer and academic administrator
27 June
28 June –
Richard Rycroft , actor and comedian
30 June –
Jack McConnell ,
First Minister of Scotland
July – August
3 July –
Vince Clarke , English songwriter (
Depeche Mode ,
Yazoo and
Erasure )
11 July –
Caroline Quentin , English television comedy actress
13 July –
Ian Hislop , British editor and broadcaster
16 July –
Jacqueline Gold , English businesswoman (died 2023)
18 July –
Simon Heffer , English journalist
22 July –
Barbara Cassani , American-born business executive
27 July –
Emily Thornberry , English politician
13 August –
Phil Taylor , darts player
14 August –
Sarah Brightman , English soprano singer and actress
30 August –
Ben Bradshaw , English Labour politician, Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare, and MP for
Exeter
September – October
3 September –
Nick Gibb , British Conservative politician, Shadow Minister of State for Schools, and MP for
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
6 September –
Shirley Ballas , ballroon dancer and dance judge
9 September –
Hugh Grant , English actor
10 September
16 September –
Danny John-Jules , English dancer and actor
17 September –
Damon Hill , English racing driver
19 September –
Shaun Greenhalgh , English art forger
24 September –
Tony Juniper , English environmentalist and politician
29 September –
Andy Slaughter , British Labour politician and MP for
Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush and
Hammersmith
6 October –
Richard Jobson , Scottish rock singer-songwriter, filmmaker and television presenter (
Skids )
15 October –
Simon Wigg , English speedway rider (died 2000)
16 October
17 October –
Guy Henry , English actor
29 October –
Finola Hughes , British actress
November – December
5 November –
Tilda Swinton , British film actress
10 November –
Neil Gaiman , English author
15 November –
Dawn Airey , broadcaster
17 November –
Jonathan Ross , English television presenter
[41]
18 November –
Kim Wilde , English singer and gardener
20 November –
Robert Dunlop , Northern Irish motorcycle racer (died 2008)
28 November –
John Galliano , British fashion designer
30 November –
Gary Lineker , English footballer and TV presenter
2 December –
Rick Savage , English bassist (
Def Leppard )
10 December –
Kenneth Branagh , Northern Irish actor and director
11 December –
John Lukic , English footballer
14 December –
Chris Waddle , English footballer, commentator and newspaper columnist
17 December –
Kay Burley , English broadcaster
24 December –
Carol Vorderman , British television presenter
26 December –
Andrew Graham-Dixon , British art historian and television presenter
27 December –
Maryam d'Abo , British actress
28 December –
Nicola Horlick , investment manager
31 December –
Steve Bruce , footballer and football manager
Deaths
3 January –
Constance Spry , English florist (born 1886)
7 January –
Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers , English tennis player (born 1878)
9 January –
Elsie J. Oxenham , English children's novelist (born 1880)
11 January –
Isabel Emslie Hutton , Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (born 1887)
12 January –
Nevil Shute , English novelist and aeronautical engineer (born 1899) (died in Australia)
25 January –
Rutland Boughton , English composer (born 1878)
8 February
20 February –
Sir Leonard Woolley , English archaeologist (born 1880)
29 February –
Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma , last Vicereine of India (born 1901)
5 April –
Peter Llewelyn-Davies , British soldier and inspiration for
Peter Pan (born 1897)
1 May
8 May
7 June – Sir
Maurice Bonham Carter , English Liberal politician and cricketer (born 1880)
27 June
6 July –
Aneurin Bevan , Welsh Labour politician (born 1897)
24 August –
Sir Harold Bowden , businessman and inventor (born 1880)
24 August –
Sir Charles Lambe , admiral of the fleet,
First Sea Lord (born 1900)
28 August –
Charles Forbes , admiral (born 1880)
22 September
27 September –
Sylvia Pankhurst , English
suffragette (born 1882)
30 September –
St John Philby , British Arabist, explorer and spy (born 1885 in Ceylon) (died in Beirut)
16 November –
Gilbert Harding , radio and television personality (born 1907) (
asthma attack outside
Broadcasting House )
13 December –
Dora Marsden , radical feminist and modernist literary editor (born 1882)
20 December – Sir
Godfrey Ince , civil servant (born 1891)
[43]
22 December – Sir
Ninian Comper , architect (born 1864)
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