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| - | :[[1950]] - [[1951]] - [[1952]] - [[1953]] - [[1954]] - [[1955]] - [[1956]] - [[1957]] - [[1958]] - [[1959]] - [[1960]] | + | '''1960''' (MCMLX) is 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade. It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of [[Pan-Africanism]]. |
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1960 (MCMLX) is 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade. It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
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Art and culture
- 1960 U-2 incident
- Hara Kiri is launched
- November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
Film
- Peeping Tom by Michael Powell
- Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock
- Eyes Without a Face by Georges Franju
- Black Sunday by Mario Bava
- Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard
- Jigoku by Nobuo Nakagawa
- House of Usher by Roger Corman
- The Little Shop of Horrors by Roger Corman
- L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Shoot the Piano Player by François Truffaut
- The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman
- The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers
- El cochecito by Marco Ferreri
- La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini
- Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla
- Zazie dans le métro by Louis Malle
Short film
- High Note, Looney Tunes animated short directed by Chuck Jones
Visual art
- March 9 – Anthropométries de l'époque bleue performance by Yves Klein in Paris
- Leap into the Void (Saut dans le vide), a photograph by Yves Klein
- Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Literature
- Blue Movie by Terry Southern
- Boredom by Alberto Moravia
- Theory of Film by Siegfried Kracauer
Music
Albums
- Kontakte by Stockhausen
Singles
- "Angel Baby" by Rosie & The Originals
- "This Bitter Earth" by Dinah Washington
Births
- Lev Manovich
- Takashi Miike
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Julianne Moore
- Atom Egoyan
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Hopeton "Overton" Brown (Scientist)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)
Deaths
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Paul-Emile Bécat (1885 – 1960)
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