WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1960
Find out what all happened May to November 1960

Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. (15. August 1960)

Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast. (12. October 1960)

Mali and Senegal join the United Nations. (28. September 1960)

Madagascar gains its independence from France. (26. June 1960)

Chad declares independence. (11. August 1960)

Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft. (16. August 1960)

The Central African Republic declares independence from France. (13. August 1960)

USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. (24. September 1960)

Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. (1. August 1960)

Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its Head of state. (1. July 1960)

Niger gains independence from France. (3. August 1960)

The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. (25. November 1960)

The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland. (26. June 1960)

Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom. (1. October 1960)

Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. (30. October 1960)

Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union. (25. June 1960)

An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. (22. May 1960)

Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. (1. August 1960)

In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight. (29. October 1960)

A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed. (11. November 1960)