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| 1959 |
| | | Australian Grand Prix driver Jack Brabham wins the first of his three Formula One titles | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Philip Roth publishes his first book, Goodbye, Columbus, a novella and five short stories | |
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| 1959 |
| | | British author Laurie Lee remembers a Cotswold boyhood in Cider with Rosie | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Billy Wright becomes the first football player to win 100 caps for England | |
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| 1959 |
| | | William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker dramatizes the extraordinary story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum opens in New York after seventeen years of work on the project | |
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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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