Premiership of Patrice Lumumba
1960 · Event
Ten weeks as the Congo's first prime minister before dismissal, arrest and murder.
On these timelines: Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Decolonisation of Africa
Around 1960
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Korean War (1950)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Suez Crisis (1956)