1960


 * Peter De Kamp came to public attention in the 1960s when he announced that Barnard's star had a planetary system based on observed "wobbles" in of its motion, but this is now known to be false.
 * The first laser was built in 1960 on Earth
 * A 1960 popular book speculated on a secret Vril Society in pre-Nazi Berlin
 * In 1960, Gary Powers was shot down in a CIA U-2A over the Soviet Union
 * Arthur Glaser, American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic…
 * Since the 1960s OTT, the voice-powered acoustic megaphone described above has been replaced by the electric megaphone,