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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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| 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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