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| 1960 |
| | | Soviet forces shoot down a US high-altitude U-2 spy plane and capture the pilot, Gary Powers | |
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| 1960 |
| | | EFTA (European Free Trade Association) brings together the European nations outside the EEC | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Cyprus becomes an independent nation, free of British colonial rule, with Archbishop Makarios as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, discovered in Buenos Aires, is kidnapped by Israeli agents | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US jazz saxophonist John Coltrane forms his own 'hard bop' group | |
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| 1960 |
| | | 20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Colossus is US author Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Italian film director Federico Fellini makes La Dolce Vita, an episodic study of life along the Via Veneto in Rome | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Aung San's widow, Ma Khin Kyi, moves with her children to Delhi, as Burma's ambassador to India | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Brazilian government moves to Brasilia, into public buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer | |
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