April 24: Dominican Civil War: Forces loyal to former President Juan Bosch overthrow current leader Donald Reid Cabral. March 25: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City results in the deaths of 146 workers and leads to sweeping workplace safety reforms. October 4: Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. July: Louise Brown is the first child successfully born after her mother received in vitro fertilisation treatment. April 28: Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France after a referendum on political reform is voted down.

Two Miami-based franchisees, David Edgerton and James McLamore, purchase the company "Insta-Burger King" and rename it " Burger King".December 11: After a reign shorter than one year, Edward VIII abdicates and hands the throne to his brother, George VI. November 22: Premiere of Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature film and the first Pixar Animation Studios film. March 17: 778 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in Uganda.

June 30 – July 2: Adolf Hitler instigates the Night of the Long Knives, which cements his power over both the Nazi Party and Germany.October 19: Suicide of members of Baader-Meinhoff Group and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer ends crisis in West Germany. October 4: El Al Flight 1862, in which a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the then state-owned Israeli airline El Al crashes into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood of Amsterdam, resulting in 43 deaths. February 17: A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to 15 terms of life in prison. June 7: The Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, and Norway achieves full independence. June 25: The rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

May 4 – 15: Riots in Indonesia, including incidents of mass violence, demonstrations, and civil unrest of a racial nature, result in the Fall of Suharto and the independence of East Timor. August 31: Solidarity union forms at Poland's Gdańsk Shipyard under Lech Wałęsa, and begins agitation for greater personal freedoms. June – August: Soviet forces launch Operation Bagration on the Eastern Front, the biggest defeat in German military history.We also specialize in custom designed individual gear for athletes participating in motocross, Red Bull Ice Cross, mountain biking and MMA. April – May: The Katyn massacre of Polish soldiers in USSR and the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. November 8: The 1960 United States presidential election marks the first televised debates between presidential candidates. January 21: The death of Vladimir Lenin triggers power struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.