1960 in the United Kingdom

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Events of the year 1960 in the United Kingdom.

• Monarch :
  

HM Queen Elizabeth II

• Prime Minister
  

Harold Macmillan, Conservative Party

Contents 1 Ongoing events 2 Events 2.1 Unknown date 3 Births 3.1 January - February 3.2 March - April 3.3 May - June 3.4 July - August 3.5 September - October 3.6 November - December 3.7 Unknown date 4 Deaths 5 References

[edit] Ongoing events

[edit] Events

• January - The state of emergency is lifted in Kenya — the Mau Mau Uprising is officially over.
• January 10 - British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for the first time (see February 3).
• February 3 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town (although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast - now Ghana - on January 10 the same year).
• April 16 - 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".
• May 16 - Theodore Maiman operates the first laser.
• June 24 - Avro 748 makes its first flight at Woodford, UK.
• June 26 — British Somaliland gains independence from the United Kingdom; 5 days later it unites with the former Italian Somaliland to create the modern Somali Republic.
• July 21 — Francis Chichester, English navigator and yachtsman, arrives in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II — he has made a record solo Atlantic crossing in 40 days.
• August 16 - Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• October 7 — The second notable flood occurs in Horncastle, England.
• October 30 — Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
• November 2 — Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

[edit] Unknown date

• Sir Peter Brian Medawar and Australian Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

[edit] Births

[edit] January - February

• January 6 - Nigella Lawson, British chef and writer
• January 29 - Sean Kerly, British field hockey player
• 19 February - Prince Andrew, Duke of York
• 20 February - Siobhain McDonagh, British Labour politician and MP for Mitcham and Morden

[edit] March - April

• March 23 - Nicol Stephen, Scottish politician
• March 29 - Marina Sirtis, British actress
• April 2 - Linford Christie, British athlete
• April 4 - Jane Eaglin, English soprano
• April 11 - Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television show host
• 13 April - Lyn Carol Brown, British Labour politician and MP for West Ham
• 22 April - Gary Rhodes, British restaurateur and celebrity chef
• April 26 - Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
• April 29 - Phil King, British bassist
• April 30 - Colonel Tim Collins Irish-born British Commander in Iraq

[edit] May - June

• 6 May - Roma Downey, Northern Irish actress and producer
• June 4 - Bradley Walsh, English comedian and actor
• 5 June - Julie Kirkbride, British Conservative politician and MP for Bromsgrove
• June 8 - Mick Hucknall English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
• June 20 - John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)

[edit] July - August

• July 3 - Vince Clarke, English songwriter (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure)
• July 13 - Ian Hislop, British broadcaster and editor
• 18 July - Simon Heffer, English journalist
• 22 July - Barbara Cassani, American-born business executive
• August 14 - Sarah Brightman, English soprano singer and actress
• 30 August - Ben Bradshaw, British Labour politician, the Minister for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare, and MP for Exeter

[edit] September - October

• 3 September - Nick Gibb, British Conservative politician, Shadow Minister of State for Schools, and MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• September 9 - Hugh Grant, English actor
• September 10 - Colin Firth, English actor
• 16 September - Danny John-Jules, English dancer and actor
• September 17 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
• 29 September - Andrew Slaughter, British Labour politician and MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
• October 29 - Finola Hughes, British actress

[edit] November - December

• November 10 - Neil Gaiman, English author
• November 17 - Jonathan Ross, English television presenter
• November 18 - Kim Wilde, English singer and gardener
• 28 November - John Galliano, British fashion designer
• 30 November - Gary Lineker, English footballer
• December 2 - Rick Savage, English bassist (Def Leppard)
• December 10 - Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor and director
• December 24 - Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
• 26 December - Andrew Graham-Dixon, British art historian and television presenter
• December 27 - Maryam d'Abo, British actress

[edit] Unknown date

[edit] Deaths

• January 12 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
• 8 February - J. L. Austin, British philosopher (b. 1911)
• 5 April - Peter Llewelyn-Davies, British soldier and inspiration for Peter Pan (b. 1897)
• May 8 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
• 7 June - Sir Maurice Bonham Carter, English Liberal politician and cricketer (b. 1880)
• 27 June - Harry Pollitt, British communist (b. 1890)
• June 27 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
• 27 September - Sylvia Pankhurst, British suffragette (b. 1882)
• 30 September - St. John Philby, British explorer and spy (b. 1885)

[edit] References

• BBC News On This Day for 1960