1960

1960

• Sprite is introduced by Coca-Cola.
• In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the Southern United States, and 6 months later the original 4 protesters are served lunch at the same counter.
• Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• After a two-year stint, Elvis Presley returns from Germany.
• President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
• The Beatles begin a forty-eight night engagement at the Indra Club in Hamburg, West Germany.
• Cold War trivia: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a United Nations General Assembly meeting, protesting discussion of Soviet Union policy toward Eastern Europe.
• The Polaris missile is test-launched.
• "The Flintstones" who were often compared to "The Honeymooners" air on television.
• France tests its first A Bomb in the Sahara desert.