page_title: June 1960
section_title: June 22, 1960 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1960 / June 22, 1960 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Jean LesageEnglish: Jean Lesage
context_page_description: The following events occurred in June 1960:
context_section_description: In the Quebec general election, the ruling Union Nationale, led by Antonio Barrette, was defeated by the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage, beginning the "Quiet Revolution" in the historically conservative Canadian province.
  All fifty-four persons on board a Brazilian REAL airliner were killed when the Convair CV-340 crashed into Guanabara Bay while approaching Rio de Janeiro.
  The first launch of two satellites from the same rocket took place at Cape Canaveral, as the United States placed a Transit II-A and a solar radiation satellite into space.  Thirty minutes later, a spring-loaded device sent the two spheres into separate orbits.
  A fire in a department store in Liverpool killed eleven people.
  Born: Adam Schiff, U.S. Congressman for California since 2001; in Framingham, Massachusetts
caption: Lesage
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