The Beginning of a New Era - 1960

Ephemerides

• Death of French writer Albert Camus in a car accident. Among his most famous novels: L'Étranger and La Peste.
• The Olympic Games take place in Rome.
• In Argentina, the Israeli secret services kidnap Adolf Eichmann, SS section leader and theorist behind the "final solution" applied to Jews during the Second World War.
• The Soviet army shoots down a U-2 American reconnaissance plane flying over its territory.
• Some ten former African colonies gain the status of independent state during the summer of 1960.