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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1960:

1 Events

January

• January 1 - Fiji Airways is reconstituted, becoming equally owned by BOAC, QANTAS, and Tasman Empire Airways .

February

• February 9February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 325 days remaining, 326 in leap years. Events 474 Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1621 Gregory XV becomes Pope. 1775 American Revolutionary War: English Parlia - the US Air Force opens its National Space Surveillance Control Centre at Bedford, MassachusettsTowns in Massachusetts Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bedford is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 12,595. History Bedford was first settled in 1640 and was officially incorp.
• February 13February 13 Events Before 1900 1130 Innocent II is voted Pope. 1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery. 1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. 1668 Spain recognizes Portu - FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. detonates its first nuclear weaponmushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 60,000 feet (18 km) above the epicenter. A nuclear weapon is a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power a single n

April

• April 6April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining. Events 648 BC Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks. 402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollent - the Short SC.1 makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight and back.
• April 10 - BOAC re-opens its air routes to Cairo. They had been suspended at the time of the Suez Crisis.
• April 13 - the United Kingdom terminates ballistic missile research, preferring to simply purchase the US-developed Skybolt missile.

May

• May 1 - CIA pilot Gary Powers is captured by the Soviet Union when his Lockheed U-2 is shot down near Sverdlovsk
• May 12 - a USAF C-130 Hercules drops a record 35,000 lbs (15,876 kg) by parachute.

June

• June 1 - Trans-Canadian Air Lines begins transatlantic services, flying between Montreal and London

July

• July 1 - British United Airways is formed
• July 9 - Sabena begins airlifting Belgian nationals out of Congo. Over the next three weeks, 25,711 will fly home

August

• August 12 - Maj Robert White (USAF), pilots the North American X-15 to a record altitude of 136,500 ft (41,600 m)
• August 16 - Captain (later Colonel) Joseph Kittinger (USAF) sets a world record for highest parachute jump (102,200 ft or 31,150m) and longest parachute freefall (84,700 ft or 25,815 m) while testing high altitude parachute escape systems in Project Excelsior.
• August 18 - a C-119 Flying Boxcar recovers a data capsule from the Discoverer 14 satellite in mid-air.

September

• September 10 - NORAD carries out Operation Sky Shield , testing US and Canadian radar systems.
• September 15 - Tasman Empire Airways retires its last flying boat from service.
• September 17 - East African Airways commences jet services between London and Nairobi

October

• October 27 - Air Mali is established
• October 31 - BEA retires its last piston-engined airliners.