Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, winning the marathon running in barefeet.

The Large Hadron Collider is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

At the Rome 1960 Summer Olympics the Ethiopian, Abebe Bikila wins a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet. Abebe Bikila’s victory at the…

German Formula One driver, Wolfgang von Trips, is killed at the Italian Grand Prix along with 13 spectators.

At the 1961 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips as well as 13 spectators who…