At A Glance
7 March 1960 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 7 March 1960 was a Monday.
- Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)
- “Boom Boom Baby” by Crash Craddock 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 7 March is Pisces.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 7 March 1960 fell in the Year of the Rat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 7 March 1960 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 7 March
- 1931 The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1945 World War II: The American 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captures an intact bridge over the Rhine.
- 1965 Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
- 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
- 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
Famous people born on 7 March
- Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter (born 1964)
- Rachel Weisz, English actress (born 1970)
- Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer (born 1944)
- Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer (born 1956)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 1960 in Australia
A selection from Wikipedia's '1960 in Australia'. Not a complete list.
- 14 January – The Reserve Bank and Commonwealth Bank are created.
- 15 January – The 2nd Annual Logie Awards are held the Savoy Hotel in Brighton, Victoria, although they are not televised. Graham Kennedy wins the "Star of the Year" (Gold Logie) award.
- 9 February – Georgian-born Australian amateur ocean rower Michael 'Tarzan' Fomenko is repatriated to Sydney from Hollandia, the capital of then-Dutch New Guinea, having arrived there the December prior after a months-long sea voyage from Queensland in a dugout canoe.
Life in Australia in 1960
Prime Minister
Robert Menzies
Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Petrol (per litre)
$0.04
Loaf of Bread
$0.13
Average House
$6,000
Weekly Wage
$16.00
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Famous Faces Born in the 1960s
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