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- From top to bottom, left to right: The U-2 incident heightens Cold War tensions after a U.S. spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union; the 1960 Summer Olympics are held in Rome; the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile becomes the most powerful ever recorded; the Congo Crisis erupts after independence from Belgium; Japanese leader Inejirō Asanuma is assassinated amid the Anpo protests in Japan; Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho premieres, redefining horror cinema; the Year of Africa sees 17 nations gain independence; the 1960 New York mid-air collision kills 134, the deadliest U.S. air disaster at the time; and the New Orleans school desegregation crisis begins with Ruby Bridges integrating an all-white school. (en)
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