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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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| 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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| 1960 |
| | | US jazz saxophonist John Coltrane forms his own 'hard bop' group | |
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| 1960 |
| | | 20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Colossus is US author Sylvia Plath's first collection of poems | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Italian film director Federico Fellini makes La Dolce Vita, an episodic study of life along the Via Veneto in Rome | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Brazilian government moves to Brasilia, into public buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer | |
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| 1960 |
| | | French Sudan becomes independent as the republic of Mali, with Modibo Keita as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Madagascar becomes independent (under the name Malagasy republic from till 1975), with Philibert Tsiranana as president | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The Quiet Revolution in Quebec begins with the election of Jean Lesage and the Liberals | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail is the first of many collections of poems by US poet Charles Bukowski | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The birth control pill wins FDA approval in the US and goes on sale | |
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| 1960 |
| | | English poet John Betjeman publishes his long autobiographical poem Summoned by Bells | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Irish author Edna O'Brien publishes her first novel, The Country Girls | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Jean-Luc Godard directs his first feature film, A Bout de Souffle ('Breathless'), a classic of French New Wave cinema | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Patrice Lumumba becomes prime minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo, previously the Belgian Congo | |
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| 1960 |
| | | The South West Africa People's Organization is founded to fight against South African control of Namibia | |
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| 1960 |
| | | British and Italian colonies merge as the independent Somali republic, also known as Somalia, with Aden Abdullah Osman as president | |
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