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| 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 | |
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| 1960 |
| | | French Cameroun becomes independent as the republic of Cameroun, with Ahmadou Ahidjo as the first president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | US film director Jules Dassin makes Never on Sunday, starring the Greek actress Melina Mercouri | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Kenneth Kaunda is elected president of UNIP, a new party fighting for an independent Northern Rhodesia | |
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| 1960 |
| | | South African police fire on a crowd in Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, killing more than sixty people | |
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| 1960 |
| | | French choreographer Maurice Béjart is the first director of Belgium's new Ballet of the 20th Century | |
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| 1960 |
| | | French Togo becomes independent as the republic of Togo, with Sylvanus Olympio as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | A Liverpool group of musicians call themselves Long John & the Silver Beatles – a name soon shortened to something more memorable | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Italian firm director Michelangelo Antonioni makes L'Avventura, with Monica Vitti in the leading role | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Guatemala is terrorized by government-linked death squads and emergent guerrilla groups | |
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