January
- "Castro Takes Control in Cuba"
- "Eisenhower Delivers State of the Union Address"
- "Massive Snowstorm Hits Northeast"
February
- "Soviet Spacecraft Reaches Moon"
- "US and Britain Agree on Nuclear Test Ban"
- "Cuban Rebel Leader Camilo Cienfuegos Declared Dead"
March
- "Dalai Lama Flees Tibet to India"
- "Elvis Presley Inducted into the Army"
- "Massive Tornadoes Hit South and Midwest"
April
- "US Opens 1960 Olympic Trials in Dallas"
- "Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. Arrested in Montgomery, Alabama"
- "Pan American Airlines Boeing 707 Jet Crashes in Atlantic Ocean"
May
- "US Launches First Satellite into Orbit"
- "American Alpine Team Scales Mount Everest"
- "The St. Louis Cardinals Win the World Series"
June
- "Nikita Khrushchev Becomes First Soviet Leader to Visit the United States"
- "Alaska and Hawaii Become 49th and 50th US States"
- "The US and Cuba Break Diplomatic Ties"
July
- "Charles de Gaulle Becomes President of France"
- "The Soviet Union Launches Lunik 2, the First Spacecraft to Impact the Moon"
- "The United States Opens the Saint Lawrence Seaway"
August
- "The Ford Motor Company Introduces the Edsel"
- "The Vietnam War Begins"
- "Typhoon Vera Devastates Japan"
September
- "The Little Rock Nine Attend Central High School in Arkansas"
- "The Soviet Union Explodes the Largest Nuclear Bomb Ever Tested"
- "The United States Launches Pioneer 4, the First Spacecraft to Travel Past the Moon"
October
- "Chinese Communist Leader Mao Zedong Declares the People's Republic of China"
- "The Cuban Missile Crisis Begins"
- "John F. Kennedy Elected President of the United States"
November
- "The United States and the Soviet Union Agree to a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty"
- "Fidel Castro Announces a Nationalization of American-Owned Businesses in Cuba"
- "The Dallas Cowboys Play Their First NFL Game"
December
- "The New York Yankees Win the World Series"
- "The United States Launches Telstar, the First Active Communications Satellite"
- "The Vietnam War Escalates"