the éphéméride | All on January and 1960.

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• January 1st:

• In France, coming into effect of the new franc by division of old by 100.
• Independence of the Cameroun, president Ahmadou Ahidjo.

• January 2nd:

• the future champion of failures Bobby Fischer gains the championship of New York.
• Death of the Italian racing cyclist Fausto Coppi.

• January 4th:

• Death of the French writer Albert Camus (46 years), Nobel Prize of literature, in an car accident.

• January 6th:

• the United States has 512 local and national television broadcast stations.

• January 7th:

• In Quebec, Antonio Barrette, new Prime Minister for the Quebec, succeeds earlier Paul Sauvé, suddenly deceased a few days.
• the age of the solar system is estimated by John H. Reynolds of the University of California has 4,95 billion years.
• the American Bathyscaphe Trieste beats a new record of diving in a pit of the Pacific Ocean while going down to 24.000 feet.

• January 9th:

• Beginning of the construction of the Stopping of Aswan in Egypt.

• January 11th:

• Independence of the Chad, president Tombalbaye.

• January 12th:

• a laboratory of General Electric shows that the thermoplastic band can be used for the recording of electromagnetic impulses, by using less space, and can be employed to project videos on the screen like a cinematographic film.

• January 13rd:

• In France: resignation of Antoine Pinay of the Government Michel Debré.
• In the USSR, disappearance of the MVD, for which the KGB is substituted.
• the socialist President indonésien Ahmed Sukarno promulgates decrees giving the right to dissolve the opposition parties and to direct the political mobilization of the indonésiens.

• January 14th:

• the New Yorkean attorney Julian Andrew Frank explodes a bomb on the aircraft which transported it, towards the Bolivia, causing its death and those of the 33 other passengers.

• January 23rd:

• Jacques Piccard and Gift Walsh, on board the Bathyscaphe Trieste establishes new world records of diving while going down to 10.916 meters below the sea level in the Fosse Mariannes.

• January 24th:

• In Algeria, Week of the barricades to Algiers (24 janv. -).
• Birth of the actress Nastassja Kinski.
• Death of the Swiss pianist Edwin Fischer.

• January 26th:

• the first heavy plane of transport equipped with the skis is posed at the American base-station of Byrd in the Antarctic.

• January 27th:

• Presentation of an engine allowing satellites to change orbit in space.
• Rejection by the USSR of a proposal to prohibit all the discernible nuclear tests but also the underground atomic explosions.

• January 28th:

• Of the Chinese pressures on the Burma leads to the expulsion of the troops of the Kuomintang, to a frontier agreement sino-Burmese and a treaty of friendship and co-operation, neutralizing in fact the foreign policy of the country.

• January 29th:

• Of the American doctors presents the first kidney machine.