Also in 1960

• 11 of May - In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
• 20 of January - Hendrik Verwoerd announces a plebiscite on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
• 16 of February - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.