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[[Image:Guerrillero Heroico - Che Guevara by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Che Guevara (photo)|Che Guevara]]'' by [[Alberto Diaz Gutierrez]]]] [[Image:Guerrillero Heroico - Che Guevara by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Che Guevara (photo)|Che Guevara]]'' by [[Alberto Diaz Gutierrez]]]]
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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]].
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
- +*[[1960 U-2 incident]]
 +*[[Hara-Kiri (magazine)|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 === === Film ===
-*''[[Peeping Tom (film) ]]''+*''[[Peeping Tom (film)|Peeping Tom]]'' by Michael Powell
-*''[[Psycho (1960 film) ]]''+*''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' by Alfred Hitchcock
-*''[[Beat Girl ]]''+*''[[Eyes Without a Face]]'' by Georges Franju
-*''[[Black Sunday ]]''+*''[[Black Sunday ]]'' by Mario Bava
-*''[[Breathless ]]''+*''[[Breathless ]]'' by Jean-Luc Godard
-*''[[Jigoku (film) ]]''+*''[[Jigoku (film)|Jigoku]]'' by Nobuo Nakagawa
-*''[[House of Usher (film) ]]''+*''[[House of Usher (film)|House of Usher]]'' by Roger Corman
-*''[[The Little Shop of Horrors ]]''+*''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' by Roger Corman
-*''[[L'avventura ]]''+*''[[L'Avventura ]]'' by Michelangelo Antonioni
-*''[[Shoot the Piano Player ]]''+*''[[Shoot the Piano Player]]'' by François Truffaut
-*''[[The Virgin Spring ]]''+*''[[The Virgin Spring ]]'' by Ingmar Bergman
-*''[[The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film]]''+*''[[The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film]]'' by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers
-*''[[El cochecito]]''+*''[[El cochecito]]'' by Marco Ferreri
-*''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' +*''[[La Dolce Vita]]'' by Federico Fellini
-*''[[Village of the Damned]]'' by Wolf Rilla+*''[[Village of the Damned (1960 film) |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=== ===Visual art===
-*''[[The Monotone Symphony ]]'' (March 9, ) - Yves Klein+*[[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]] *''[[Leap into the Void]]'' (''Saut dans le vide''), a [[photograph]] by [[Yves Klein]]
- +* [[Alberto Korda]] takes his [[Guerrillero Heroico|iconic photograph]] of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
===Literature=== ===Literature===
-*''[[Blue Movie]]'' by Terry Southern+*''[[Blue Movie (novel)|Blue Movie]]'' by Terry Southern
*''[[Boredom]]'' by Alberto Moravia *''[[Boredom]]'' by Alberto Moravia
*''[[Theory of Film ]]'' by Siegfried Kracauer *''[[Theory of Film ]]'' by Siegfried Kracauer
 +*''[[L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien régime]]'' by Philippe Ariès
 +
===Music=== ===Music===
 +====Albums====
*''[[Kontakte (Stockhausen)|Kontakte]]'' by Stockhausen *''[[Kontakte (Stockhausen)|Kontakte]]'' by Stockhausen
-*"[[Angel Baby (song)|Angel Baby]]" by Rosie & The Originals+*''[[Eden's Island]]'' by eden ahbez
-*"[[This Bitter Earth]]" by Rosie & The Originals+*''[[Drums of Passion]]'' by Babatunde Olatunji
 + 
 +====Singles====
 +*"[[Angel Baby (Rosie and the Originals song) |Angel Baby]]" by Rosie & The Originals
 +*"[[This Bitter Earth]]" by Dinah Washington
== Births == == Births ==
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*[[Atom Egoyan]] *[[Atom Egoyan]]
*[[Maurizio Cattelan]] *[[Maurizio Cattelan]]
-*[[Scientist (musician)|Hopeton "Overton" Brown (Scientist)]]+*[[Scientist (musician)]]
*[[Jean-Michel Basquiat]] (1960 - 1988) *[[Jean-Michel Basquiat]] (1960 - 1988)
==Deaths == ==Deaths ==
*[[Albert Camus]] (1913 - 1960) *[[Albert Camus]] (1913 - 1960)
 +*[[Paul-Emile Bécat]] (1885 – 1960)
 +
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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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