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→ United States – United States of America Capital: Washington, D.C. Widely-recognized UN member state. The United States was a federation of 50 states, one federal district, and one incorporated territory. [100] It asserted sovereignty over the following inhabited unincorporated territories:
This timeline lists all sovereign states in North America (including Central America and the Caribbean), both current and defunct, ... 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
In other cases, a sovereign state submitted to foreign military occupation or political subjugation for a period of time and later regained its independence (e.g., 6 current states gained control of sovereignty from Nazi Germany between 1944 and 1945).
June 20, 1960 France Mali: June 26, 1960 France Madagascar: Independence restored after French rule, initial establishment as Kingdom of Madagascar in 1817, a successor to the earlier Merina Kingdom. June 30, 1960 Belgium DR Congo: Named Zaire from 1971-1997. Now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo or Congo-Kinshasa. July 1, 1960 Italy
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature. [note 1]
United States: 4 July 1960: 1777 [note 1] 1960 (addition of a star after Hawaii became a state) Togo: 27 April 1960 [15] 1960: 1960 Gabon: 1960: 1959: 1960 Cyprus: 1960: 1960: 24 April 2006 (modification) Senegal: 1960: 1959: 1960 Nigeria: 1960: 1959: 1959 Mali: 1961: 1959: 1961 (removal of central stick figure) Sierra Leone: 1961: 1960: 1960 ...