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| 1960 |
| | | Moise Tshombe, taking advantage of chaos in the Congo, declares the independence of Katanga | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US author Harper Lee publishes her first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Anti-European riots in the Congo cause some 25,000 Belgians to flee the country | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the assassinated Solomon Bandaranaike, begins the first of three long spells as prime minister of Sri Lanka | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Nelson Mandela leads a new armed section of the ANC (African National Congress), formed in response to Sharpeville | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Dahomey (known from 1975 as Benin) becomes independent but suffers six military coups in its first twelve years | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Niger becomes independent, with Hamani Diori as the new nation's first president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Kenyatta, still in prison, is elected leader of KANU, a new political party in Kenya | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Upper Volta becomes independent as Burkina Faso, with Maurice Yaméogo as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The pamphlet Control or Colour Bar? demands reform of White Australia policy | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first president of the newly independent Ivory Coast, begins thirty-three years of relatively peaceful rule | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Alfred Hitchcock directs Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins in Psycho | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The English revue Beyond the Fringe has its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Chad becomes independent with François Tombalbaye as president | |
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| c. 1960 |
| | | Neo-Pentecostalism, also known as Charismatic Renewal, becomes an important element within many Christian denominations | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US novelist John Barth publishes The Sot-Weed Factor, a picaresque life of Edmund Cook set on a family tobacco plantation in Maryland | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Gabon becomes independent with Léon M'ba as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Ubangi-Shari becomes independent and takes the name Central African Republic | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French Congo becomes independent as the republic of Congo, with Fulbert Youlou as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Mobutu Sese Seko takes power in a military coup in the midst of chaos in the Congo | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Paul Scofield plays Thomas More in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Senegal becomes independent, with Léopold Senghor as the new nation's first president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Nigeria wins independence, with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa as prime minister, but its stability is threatened by tribal and regional factions | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Patrice Lumumba, the dismissed prime minister of the Congo, is arrested on the orders of the army chief of staff, Mobutu Sese Seko | |
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| 1960 |
| | | British artist Anthony Caro begins welding and painting abstract metal sculpture | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The French colony of Mauritania becomes independent, with Moktar Ould Daddah as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US author John Updike begins to chart the fictional progress of Harry Angstrom, known as Rabbit, in Rabbit, Run | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Keith Holyoake begins twelve unbroken years as New Zealand's prime minister | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Albert Luthuli, president of the ANC in South Africa, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Democrat candidate John F. Kennedy defeats Republican Richard Nixon in the US presidential election | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Vietcong, or NLF, is formed as a guerrilla force to liberate South Vietnam from the US-backed government | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Penguin Books are prosecuted for obscenity for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, and are acquitted | |
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| 1960 |
| | | British artist Bridget Riley creates patterns that produce unexpected optical effects, in a style that becomes known as op art | |
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| 1961 |
| | | President Kennedy appoints his younger brother Robert to the position of US attorney-general | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Patrice Lumumba is sent to Katanga, where he is murdered | |
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| 1961 |
| | | Political activist Jane Jacobs publishes an influential polemic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities | |
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