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1960s timeline
1960
UK prime minister Harold Macmillan, in Cape Town, warns the white settlers of Africa that 'the wind of change' is blowing through their continent
1960
French Cameroun becomes independent as the republic of Cameroun, with Ahmadou Ahidjo as the first president
1960
US film director Jules Dassin makes
Never on Sunday
, starring the Greek actress Melina Mercouri
1960
Kenneth Kaunda is elected president of UNIP, a new party fighting for an independent Northern Rhodesia
1960
South African police fire on a crowd in Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, killing more than sixty people
1960
French choreographer Maurice Béjart is the first director of Belgium's new Ballet of the 20th Century
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