Editing 1960 (section)

== 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.