TV actor Bradley Walsh

Events in 1960 and 4-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Bradley Walsh

• American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia (May 1).
• Khrushchev kills Paris summit conference because of U-2 (May 16).
• Top Nazi murderer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina (May 23)—executed in Israel in 1962.
• Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.
• Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain independence.
• There are 900 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War

Birthday Bradley Walsh (4-6) in history

• Day 4-6 year 1892: The Sierra Club, led by John Muir, was incorporated in San Francisco.
• Day 4-6 year 1896: Henry Ford took his first car out for a test drive.
• Day 4-6 year 1942: The Battle of Midway, a decisive Allied victory in World War II, began.
• Day 4-6 year 1944: The U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, leading to the liberation of the city during World War II.
• Day 4-6 year 1968: Dorothy Gish, American actress who starred in many silent-film classics, died.
• Day 4-6 year 1989: People's Army of China opened fire on crowds of prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, killing thousands.
• Day 4-6 year 1992: The U.S. Post Office announced that in a poll people preferred the "young Elvis" stamp to the "old Elvis" stamp.
• Day 4-6 year 2001: King Dipendra of Nepal died, three days after shooting most of his family and himself.
• Day 4-6 year 2003: Martha Stewart was indicted on charges of insider trading.