page_title: November 1960
section_title: November 26, 1960 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: November 1960 / November 26, 1960 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Head and shoulders portrait of Walter Nash.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in November 1960:
context_section_description: In elections for New Zealand Parliament, the National Party, led by Keith Holyoake, gained control of Parliament, gaining 7 seats from Prime Minister Walter Nash's Labour Party, and taking a 46–34 majority. Holyoake would take office as Prime Minister on December 12, and serve until 1972.
  In what one author has described as "a cornerstone event in the history of the psychedelic counterculture in the United States", Harvard University professor Timothy Leary invited beat generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky to his home, where the three partook of the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin.
  Philippine Airlines Flight 526 crashed into Mount Baco on the island of Mindoro, an hour after takeoff from Iloilo on the island of Panay en route to Manila, killing all 29 passengers and the crew of four.
caption: Nash
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