Born on 18 December 1960

At A Glance

18 December 1960 at a glance

Day of the week

18 December 1960 was a Sunday.

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)

“Save the Last Dance for Me” by The Drifters was No. 1 on David Kent's retrospective Australian chart. This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.

Top Film of 1960

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1960 was Swiss Family Robinson.

Star sign

The star sign for 18 December is Sagittarius.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 18 December 1960 fell in the Year of the Rat.

Birthstone

The birthstone for December is Turquoise.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 18 December 1960 was New Moon.

On this day: 18 December

• 1944 The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.
• 1957 A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.
• 1958 Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
• 1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
• 1973 Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.

Famous people born on 18 December

• Brad Pitt, American actor and producer (born 1963)
• Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks (born 1946)
• Jayden Daniels, American football player (born 2000)
• Billie Eilish, American singer (born 2001)

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