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Movie history events from 1960
The world picks itself up after the ravaging of World War III, spawning the rise of Big Brother. (1984)
President-elect John F Kennedy, the first president from the north since the War of Northern Aggression, looks to ban slavery, while fighting the Cold War in Canada. (CSA) (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Che Guevara meets Alberto Granado for the first time since their epic trek across South America eight years beforehand. (Cuba) (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Peggy Sue relives her high-school youth. (Peggy Sue Got Married)
The nuclear powered submarine USOS Seaview under goes her sea trials, which include a trip under the North Pole. (Santa Barbra, Ca.) (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Sunday 1st May: American U-2 spy plane shot down. (Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident)
Saturday 7th May: Leonid Brezhnev becomes President of the USSR. (Brezhnev)
Monday 23rd May: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured and will stand trial in Israel. (The Man Who Captured Eichmann)
Wednesday 13th July: Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party Convention. (Los Angeles, California) (The Rat Pack)
Wednesday 10th August: 'Ocean's Eleven' opens in cinemas. (The Rat Pack)
September: Fumio Sugihara, sworn brother to ailing yakuza boss Muraoka, is shot to death in a bold daylight attack; this leads to Muraoka's decision to step down. (Kure, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Monday 26th September: Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised presidential debate. (Nixon)
Tuesday 25th October: Holly Golightly receives a cheque. (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Tuesday 8th November: John F Kennedy elected U.S. President. (The Rat Pack)
Wednesday 16th November: Clark Gable dies of a heart attack. (Los Angeles, California) (Gable and Lombard)
Thursday 1st December: Sandra Dee marries Bobby Darin. (Beyond the Sea )
Sunday 25th December: Zachary Beaulieu born. (Quebec) (C.R.A.Z.Y.)