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See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history , history by period , and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline .
1960 ( MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade.
t. e. This is a list of solar eclipses in the 20th century. During the period 1901 to 2000 there were 228 solar eclipses of which 78 were partial, 73 were annular (two non-central ), 71 were total (three non-central) and 6 were hybrids. The greatest number of eclipses in one year was five, in 1935, and one month, July 2000, had two eclipses.
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1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power, and McCarthyism (1950–1954) begins. 1950 – McCarran Internal Security Act. 1950 – Korean War begins. 1950 – The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, is first published. 1950 – NBC airs Broadway Open House a late-night comedy, variety, talk show through 1951. Hosted by Morey Amsterdam ...
The path of the total solar eclipse that crossed Massachusetts on October 2, 1959. From 1900 to 2100, the state of Massachusetts will have recorded a total of 78 solar eclipses, one of which is an annular eclipse and five of which are total eclipses. The one annular solar eclipse occurred on May 10, 1994.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.
4500 BC – 3500 BC: Lost-wax casting in Israel [103] or the Indus Valley [104] 4400 BC: Fired bricks in China. [105] 4000 BC: Probable time period of the first diamond-mines in the world, in Southern India. [106] 4000 BC: Paved roads, in and around the Mesopotamian city of Ur, Iraq. [107] 4000 BC: Plumbing.