The Belgian Congo (French: "Congo Belge" , Dutch: "Belgisch-Congo" ) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The Republic of the Congo (French: "République du Congo" ) was a sovereign state in Central Africa that was created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960.
 From 1960 to 1966, the country was often known as Congo-Léopoldville (after its capital) in order to distinguish it from its north-western neighbour, also called the Republic of the Congo or Congo-Brazzaville.
 With the renaming of Léopoldville as Kinshasa on 1 June 1966, it was known as Congo-Kinshasa until 1971.
Institut national pour l'étude agronomique du Congo Belge
Radio Congo Belge (French, "Belgian Congo Radio") was a radio broadcaster in the Belgian Congo (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) which played an important role in the early development and popularisation of Congolese rumba music across Africa in the aftermath of World War II.
 The station, based in Léopoldville (modern Kinshasa), was founded during the war to broadcast news and propaganda to German-occupied Belgium from the Congo which was still controlled by the Belgian government in exile and the Allies.
 With the liberation of Belgium in 1944, however, Radio Congo Belge re-focused its programming on the Congo itself and played an important role in providing Congolese musicians with access to foreign musical influences.
 It was particularly influential in introducing Afro-Cuban music into the Congo through groups such as Septeto Habanero and Trio Matamoros.
The Société Anversoise (English: Company of Antwerp ) was a concession company of the Congo Free State.
 It was, with the Lulonga Company and the Abir Congo Company, one of the main producers of rubber in the Free State.
 Alongside Abir and the Lulonga Company the Société Anversoise handed back control of the concession to the Congo Free State in 1906.
 The Société Anversoise merged with Abir in 1911 to form the Compagnie du Congo Belge with a focus of the management of rubber plantations instead of the harvesting of naturally occurring rubber.
 The Société Anversoise was quoted on the Antwerp Stock Exchange from 27 July 1898.
The Abir Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was a company that exploited natural rubber in the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium.
 The company was founded with British and Belgian capital and was based in Belgium.
 By 1898 there were no longer any British shareholders and the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company changed its name to the Abir Congo Company and changed its residence for tax purposes to the Free State.
 The company was granted a large concession in the north of the country and the rights to tax the inhabitants.
 This tax was taken in the form of rubber obtained from a relatively rare rubber vine.
 The collection system revolved around a series of trade posts along the two main rivers in the concession.
 Each post was commanded by a European agent and manned with armed sentries to enforce taxation and punish any rebels.
The flag of the now-defunct State of Katanga was designed by an architect Louis Dressen, former manager of "Banque du Congo Belge" in Elisabethville (modern-day Lubumbashi).
The Evangelical Community in Congo was established by Swedish missionaries, the Svenska Missionsförbundet in 1881.
 The center of their avtivities was in Lower Congo, where British and American Baptist were already begun establishing mission points.
 The Svenska Missionsförbundet and the Baptists shared the beliefs of credobaptism.
 The church become independent and it shares a theological seminary in Kinshasa.
 In the first year in the denomination marked by a revival of Pentecostal movement, but later it become more conscious of their Reformed heritage.
 It is a member of the World Council of Churches and the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
Elisabethville was an  GRT ocean liner which was built in 1921 for Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo.
 In 1930 the company became Compagnie Maritime Belge.
 She was used on the Antwerp - Matadi route.
The Confédération syndicale belge ("Belgian Trade Union Confederation") was an Anarcho-syndicalist trade union movement in Belgium.
 The organization was founded in Liège on 19 April 1908.
 "Confédération syndicale belge" was the last of the various anarcho-syndicalist union movements formed in Belgium in the years prior to the First World War.
 The organization had around 10,000 members from Antwerp, Kortrijk, Brussels, Verviers, the Centre region and Liège.
 It was formed by the small revolutionary "Confédération générale du travail" (founded on 28 January 1906 in Brussels), the Antwerp diamond workers union (3,000 members), the glass workers union ("Union Verrière") of Lodelinsart and others in reaction to the creation of the "Commission syndicale", a trade-union confederation directly linked to, and under the orders of the Belgian Labour Party.
 In January 1910, the diamond workers union finally joined the "Commission syndicale" after a mediation by Camille Huysmans and , general secretary of the diamond general trade union of Amsterdam, the "".
 This ended the history of the "Confédération syndicale belge", the last attempt to create a trade union independent from the Belgian Labour Party.

Question: In what year did Congo Belge become independent? 
Answer: 1960