What day of the week was October 24, 1960?

The day of the week October 24th, 1960 fell on was a Monday.

Dennis Anderson the American monster truck driver was born on 24 October in 1960. As was Ian Baker-Finch the Australian golfer , Jaime Garzón the Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (d. 1999) , Wolfgang Güllich the German rock climber (d. 1992) , Joachim Winkelhock the German race car driver , BD Wong the American actor .

Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility the killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash