1960

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 war criminal and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust, is captured in Brazil by the Israeli Mossad.
• July 5 - Beginning of the Congo Crisis.
• July 12 - Communist Party of Malaya leader Chin Peng is exiled 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