Editing 1960 (section)

===March===
{{Main|March 1960}}
[[File:Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico by Alberto Korda.jpg|thumb|130px|March 5: The iconic picture of Che Guevara<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/books/21kaku.html Brand Che: Revolutionary as Marketer's Dream] by [[Michiko Kakutani]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 20, 2009</ref>]]
* [[March 5]] – [[Alberto Korda]] takes his iconic photograph of [[Che Guevara]], ''[[Guerrillero Heroico]]'', in [[Havana]].
* [[March 6]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to [[Vietnam]].
** The [[Canton of Geneva]] in Switzerland gives women the right to vote.
* [[March 17]] 
** [[Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710]] crashes near Tell City, Indiana, killing all 63 on board.
** U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] approves a covert [[Central Intelligence Agency]] plan to train a paramilitary force against Cuba, which will result in the 1961 [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]].<ref>[https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/bayofpigs/chron.html Bay of Pigs: 40 Years After"] by the [[National Security Archive]]</ref>
* [[March 21]] – The [[Sharpeville massacre]] in South Africa results in more than 69 black protesters shot dead by police, 300 injured.
* [[March 22]] – [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]] and [[Charles Hard Townes]] receive the first [[patent]] for a [[laser]], in the United States.
* [[March 23]] – Soviet Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]] meets French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] in Paris.
* [[March 29]] – "[[Tom Pillibi]]" sung by 18-year-old [[Jacqueline Boyer]] (music by [[André Popp]], lyrics by [[Pierre Cour]]) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1960]] (staged in London) for France.