The temperature on July 25, 1960 was between 13.0 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 24 » Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
June 26 » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
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