Also in 1960

• 1 of May - Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
• 17 of June - The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
• 5 of September - The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.