Editing 1960 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1960}}
* [[January 1]] – [[Cameroon]] becomes independent from France.<ref name=1960s>{{cite book|title=1960s|first=Nigel|last=Gross|display-authors=etal|publisher=HarperCollins|location=Glasgow|series=Collins Gem|year=1999|isbn=0-00-472310-4}}</ref>
* [[January 9]]–[[January 11|11]] – [[Aswan Dam]] construction begins in [[Egypt]].
* [[January 10]] – [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[Harold Macmillan]] makes the [[Wind of Change (speech)|"Wind of Change" speech]] for the first time, to little publicity, in [[Accra]], [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] (modern-day [[Ghana]]).
* [[January 19]] – A revised version of the [[Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan]] ("U.S.-Japan Security Treaty" or "''Anpo (jōyaku)''"), which allows U.S. troops to be based on Japanese soil, is signed in Washington, D.C. by Prime Minister [[Nobusuke Kishi]] and President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. The new treaty is opposed by the massive [[Anpo protests]] in Japan.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=21|isbn=9780674988484}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] 
** [[Coalbrook mining disaster]]: A coal mine collapses at [[Holly Country]], South Africa, killing 435 miners.
** [[Avianca Flight 671]] crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica killing 37, the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca.
* [[January 22]]
** [[Charles de Gaulle]], President of France, dismisses [[Jacques Massu]] as commander-in-chief of French troops in [[Algeria]].
** [[Jacques Piccard]] and [[Don Walsh]] descend into the [[Mariana Trench]] in the [[bathyscaphe]] ''[[Trieste (bathyscaphe)|Trieste]]'', reaching the depth of {{convert|10,911|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}}, and become the first human beings to reach the lowest spot on Earth.
* [[January 24]] – A major insurrection occurs in [[Algiers]] against French colonial policy.