Timeline Monday 11 July 1960

Events on Monday 11 July 1960 2

• 1960 Congo Crisis erupts Katanga secedes and Lumumba is ousted Days after independence, the mineral-rich province of Katanga secedes under Moise Tshombe, and army mutinies plunge the new Congolese state into chaos. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is dismissed in September amid the turmoil, drawing in UN peacekeepers and Cold War rivalries.
• 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird published Harper Lee's novel wins the Pulitzer Prize Harper Lee publishes To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel about racial injustice in the American South seen through a child's eyes. The book wins the Pulitzer Prize and becomes a landmark of American literature.