Editing 1960

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== Events ==
* January - End of the [[Mau Mau Uprising]].
* March 21 - The [[Sharpeville Massacre]] takes place.
* April 9 - South African Prime Minister [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] survives an assassination attempt in Johannesburg, after being shot three times by anti-[[Apartheid]] activist David Pratt.
* April 26 - [[Syngman Rhee]] resigns as President of South Korea.
* May 11 - [[Adolf Eichmann]], a [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] war criminal and a major perpetrator of [[the Holocaust]], is captured in Brazil by the Israeli Mossad.
* July 1 - Ghana drafts a new constitution, subsequently reorganizing the country as a presidential republic. Prime Minister [[Kwame Nkrumah]] is subsequently elected President.
* July 5 - Beginning of the Congo Crisis.
* July 12 - [[Communist Party of Malaya]] leader [[Chin Peng]] is [[exile]]d to Thailand. End of the Malayan Emergency.
* October 12 - Inejiro Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, is assassinated by [[Otoya Yamaguchi]], using a wakizashi, during a political debate in Tokyo, being taped for broadcast on Japanese television.
* December 20 - The [[Viet Cong]] is established by the [[Communist Party of Vietnam]] to forment insurgency in South Vietnam.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 26 - [[Rick Ross]]
* February 22 - [[Charles Cullen]]
* February 29 - [[Richard Ramirez]]
* March 17 - [[Cameron Thor]]
* March 23 - [[Apirat Kongsompong]] & [[Colin Pitchfork]]
* April 25 - [[Art Schlichter]]
* April 30 - [[David Miscavige]]
* May 4 - [[Stephanie Lazarus]]
* May 18 - [[Michael Robert Ryan]]
* May 21 - [[Jeffrey Dahmer]]
* June 26 - [[Mauro Carlesse]]
* July 11 - [[Ariel Castro]]
* July 29 - [[Brian Peck]]
* August 31 - [[Hassan Nasrallah]]
* September 16 - [[Mel Hall]]
* September 19 - [[Yolanda Saldivar]] & [[Michael Skakel]]
* September 30 - [[George Sodini]]
* October 16 - [[Alexander Solonik]] & [[Sandra Ávila Beltrán]]
*November 14 - [[Francesco Schettino]]
* December 4 - [[Cesar Barone]]
* December 14 - [[Ebrahim Raisi]]
* December 24 - [[Charles Ng]]
* December 31 - [[John Allen Muhammed]]
* Unknown - [[Robert Kajuga]]
* Unknown - [[Fulgence Kayishema]]

=== Victim births ===
* January 11 - Linda Mylnarczyk 
* February 4 - Margaret Ellen Fox
* February 18 - Brenda Gerow
*February 28 - Dorothy Stratten
*March 21 - Edmund Glazer (9/11 Victim)
* March 30 - Nancy Argentino 
*April 29 - Maclovio Lopez Jr (9/11 Victim)  
*May 12 - Trond Berntsen  
* June 28 - Daniel Brandhorst (9/11 Victim)
*July 25 - Anne Marie Murphy 
* August 16 - Martha Moxley 
* September 6 - Nancy Lanza
* October 2 - Steven Crawford
* October 21 - Andrea Hall
*October 25 - John Phippen 
*November 3 - Karen A. Kincaid (9/11 Victim)
*November 17 - Gordon Cowden
*December 18 - Karen Martin (9/11 Victim) 
*Unknown - Susan Curtis

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* November 2 - [[Otoya Yamaguchi]]
* November 6 - [[Erich Raeder]]
* November 9 - [[Ernst Wilhelm Bohle]]
=== Victim deaths ===
* October 12 - Inejiro Asanuma