The Latin American Free Trade Association ( LAFTA ) was created in the 1960 Treaty of Montevideo by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

In 1960, David Berlo expanded on Shannon and Weaver's ( 1949 ) linear model of communication and created the SMCR Model of Communication.

One of his few religious artworks was created in 1960, Christ Head, with an angular " Modiglianiesque " portrait of Jesus Christ.

It was officially created on April 25, 1930 and dissolved on January 13, 1960.

The military began to become a professional institution independent of politics, with the newly created military academy graduating its first class in 1960.

" On 1 October 1960, the Malian army was created and solemnly installed through a speech by Chief of Staff Captain Sekou Traore.

In February 1960, the CIA created an unrelated plan to oust Qasim by giving him a poisoned handkerchief, although it may have been aborted.

Margaret eventually abandoned her plans, and, in 1960, accepted the proposal of the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, who was created Earl of Snowdon by Elizabeth II.

The Guangdong Provincial Education Department created an official romanization of Moiyen in 1960, one of four languages receiving this status in Guangdong.

Venturi created the firm Venturi and Short with William Short in 1960.

Following the death of Wilhelm Pieck in 1960, the SED abolished the function of President of the GDR and instead created a new institution, the Council of State.

* 1960 – Harry Hess proposes that new sea floor might be created at mid-ocean rifts and destroyed at deep sea trenches

Groups created include Toshiba Music Industries / Toshiba EMI ( 1960 ), Toshiba International Corporation ( 1970s ) Toshiba Electrical Equipment ( 1974 ), Toshiba Chemical ( 1974 ), Toshiba Lighting and Technology ( 1989 ), Toshiba America Information Systems ( 1989 ) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation ( 1999 ).

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1952, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1960, an award which was partly for her charity work, largely unnoticed, which she carried on until her death, often for small and rather obscure charities rather than the grand ones which would have given her more publicity.

A series of uprisings beginning in the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre in January 1960 created " liberated zones ", models of Viet Cong-style government.

The Viet Cong created the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam in December 1960 at Tân Lập village in Tây Ninh as a " united front ", or political branch intended to encourage the participation of non-communists.

Benjamin Britten wrote the leading role of Oberon in his setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ) especially for him ; the countertenor role of Apollo in Britten's Death in Venice ( 1973 ) was created by James Bowman, the best-known amongst the next generation of English countertenors.

was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents ' divorce in 1960.

The American choreographer Martha Graham created a ballet entitled Alcestis in 1960.

In 1960, County Council created the Civil Defense Advisory Council to guide the Director of Civil Defense on personnel selection, appropriations and policy issues.

This multidisciplinary platform was created in 1960 by Ricardo Bofill.

The Shamrock Lakes ( a group of six lakes ) were created between 1960 and 1965, and the first lake was originally intended to be a water supply for a farmer's cattle.

Originally built in 1960, it was one of four " Sun Cities " designed by Del Webb who later created retirement communities in Arizona, Nevada and Florida in the 1970s and ' 80s.

The small town consists of a group of six lakes that were created between 1960 and 1965, and the first lake was originally intended to be a water supply for a farmer's cattle.

It was created in 1960 with a dam built by the Army Corps of Engineers.

He enjoyed jamming with fellow studio musicians which led to them being asked to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960.

In 1960 the book, The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, was published.

In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it " Old Payola Roll Blues ", a two sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled " High School OO OO ", and then tries to offer the song to a Jazz radio station with phony deals that the Disc Jockey just won't buy it.

* 1960: Outward Bound ( New Jazz )

* 1960: Out There ( New Jazz )

* Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation ( 1960 )

* John Lewis Presents Jazz Abstractions ( 1960 )

These recordings were released as Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada ( 1959 ), Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen ( 1960 ), Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems ( 1961 ), and The Journal of Albion Moonlight ( 1972 ).

Jazz on a Summer's Day ( 1960 ) is a documentary film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, filmed and directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and director Aram Avakian, who also edited the movie.

The movement received its biggest impetus ( and its name ), however, when Coleman moved from the West Coast to New York and was signed to Atlantic Records: albums such as The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century marked a radical step beyond his more conventional early work, and when he released a 1960 recording titled Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, the name stuck to the movement as a whole.

He also toured with the Jazz at the Philharmonic show in 1957 and 1960, the first tour yielding a memorable live album featuring Johnson and tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.

In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician's courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that " No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival.

* 1960: The Essen Jazz Festival Concert ( Black Lion )

Teagarden appeared in the movies Birth of the Blues ( 1941 ), The Strip ( 1951 ), The Glass Wall ( 1953 ), and Jazz on a Summer's Day ( 1960 ), the latter a documentary film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

" By March 1959, Billboard noted that the popularity of the film and of Mandel's and Mulligan's albums " prompted a rush of jazz film scores ", and cited the signing of Duke Ellington to do the score for that year's Anatomy of a Murder, the release of The Five Pennies ( a biopic about the jazz band leader Red Nichols ), and a 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer's Day,.

* Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation ( Atlantic, 1960 )

Since its inception in 1960, it has attracted many famous Jazz artists each year to play outdoors.

Some examples of this are the Fender Jazz Bass, introduced in 1960, which has used a pair of single coil pickups, one near the bridge and another one about half way between the bridge and the neck, and many Stratocaster style guitars, which often have 3 pickups with the middle one reversed electrically and magnetically.

In December 1960, Hubbard was invited to play on Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz after Coleman had heard him playing with Don Cherry.

Benny Carter visited Australia in 1960 with his own quartet, performed at the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival with Dizzy Gillespie, and recorded with a Scandinavian band in Switzerland the same year.

* Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard ( Verve, 1960 )

1960 saw the release of the Jazz Bass, a sleeker, updated bass with a slimmer neck, and offset waist body and two single coil pickups ( as opposed to the Precision Bass and its split-humbucking pickup that had been introduced in 1957 ).