Complex sentence: As planned, scarcely five months earlier, the hand-over ceremony took place on 30 June 1960 at the new residence of the Governor-General of the Belgian Congo in Léopoldville.
Split into simpler sentences: As planned, scarcely five months earlier, the hand-over ceremony took place on 30 June 1960. The location was the new residence of the Governor-General of the Belgian Congo in Léopoldville.