▸ the year you arrived
1960
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You will be 66 this year — a child of the '60s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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Top 10 of 1960
- 1
Theme from "A Summer Place"
Percy Faith
- 2
He'll Have to Go (feat. Jim Reeves)
Skeeter Davis
- 3
Cathy's Clown
The Everly Brothers
- 4
Running Bear
Johnny Preston
- 5
Teen Angel
Mark Dinning
- 6
I'm Sorry
Brenda Lee
- 7
It's Now or Never
Elvis Presley
- 8
Handy Man - Original
Jimmy Jones
- 9
Stuck On You
Elvis Presley
- 10
The Twist
Chubby Checker
Your stats
Your generation
Baby Boomer
1960 belonged to
The Everly Brothers
4 year-end chart hits
🔙 The world you were born into
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 At the movies
📰 Headlines
- Greensboro lunch-counter sit-ins
- U-2 spy plane shot down
- JFK elected president
- First TV presidential debate
- FDA approves the Pill
💡 Tech & Firsts
- First working laser
- TIROS-1 weather satellite
- Bathyscaphe reaches Mariana Trench
- Echo communications satellite
- Integrated circuit takes off
🏆 Sports
- Pirates win the World Series
- Eagles beat Packers for NFL title
- Celtics win the NBA Finals
- Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
- Rome Summer Olympics
🤪 Crazes & fads
- The Twist dance craze
- Hula hoop still spinning
- Drive-in movies
- Sock hops
- Transistor radios
👖 Clothes
- Jackie Kennedy pillbox hats
- Boxy tailored suits
- Stiletto heels
- Bouffant hairdos
- Capri pants
💵 What it cost
- Gas: 31¢/gal
- Stamp: 4¢
- Movie ticket: ~70¢
- New car avg: ~$2,600
- Median home: ~$11,900
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💬 Memories from 1960
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