Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1960. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh aboard Trieste descend into the Mariana Trench reaching the lowest spot on Earth

February: The 1960 Winter Olympic Games begin at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, in Placer County, California

March: Alberto Korda takes his now iconic photograph of Che Guevara, which he titled 'Guerrillero Heroico', in Havana, Cuba

April: The United States launches the world's first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1 from Cape Canaveral, Florida

May: An American Lockheed U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, is captured

June: Civil unrest and the postponement of Eisenhower's visit leads to the resignation of Japanese prime minister, Nobusuke Kishi

July: Ceylon elects Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike as its Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government

August: Joseph Kittinger jumps from a balloon over New Mexico at an altitude of about 102,800 feet (31,333 meters)

September: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in light-heavyweight boxing, at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games

October: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

November: Another Polaris missile is test-launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will become a symbol of the Cold War

December: The farthing, a coin which was first minted in England in the 13th century, is no longer legal tender in the United Kingdom