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Events on the year of 1961 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1961 Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium
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01 Jan 1961 Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game
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01 Jan 1961 Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion)
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01 Jan 1961 Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11
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02 Jan 1961 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16
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03 Jan 1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor
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03 Jan 1961 A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
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03 Jan 1961 In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
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03 Jan 1961 A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
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03 Jan 1961 The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
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07 Jan 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl) - Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
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07 Jan 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
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08 Jan 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
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08 Jan 1961 In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
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09 Jan 1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn / St. Paul territory
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11 Jan 1961 Racial riot at University of Georgia
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12 Jan 1961 UN genocide pact goes into effect
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12 Jan 1961 "Show Girl" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY for 100 performances
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14 Jan 1961 Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join the AFL
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15 Jan 1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records
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15 Jan 1961 Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
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15 Jan 1961 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 35-31
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16 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 8 performances
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16 Jan 1961 Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain
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16 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater New York City NY for 8 performances
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17 Jan 1961 Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
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17 Jan 1961 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
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17 Jan 1961 Eisenhower allegedly orders the assassination of Congo's Lumumba
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18 Jan 1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
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19 Jan 1961 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
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19 Jan 1961 1st episode for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed
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20 Jan 1961 Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
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20 Jan 1961 Arthur M Ramsay becomes archbishop of Canterbury
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20 Jan 1961 Francis Poulenc's "Gloria" premieres in Boston
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20 Jan 1961 Yugoslav ex-Vice-President Milovan Djilas flees
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21 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 8 performances
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21 Jan 1961 Four hundred thirty-five workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, Free State collapses.
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21 Jan 1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
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21 Jan 1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City NY after 8 performances
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21 Jan 1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
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23 Jan 1961 The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
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23 Jan 1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
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23 Jan 1961 Venezuela adopts constitution
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24 Jan 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
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24 Jan 1961 Lazard Brithers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68
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24 Jan 1961 Edward Albee's "American Dream" premieres in New York City NY
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25 Jan 1961 1st live, nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK)
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25 Jan 1961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
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25 Jan 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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25 Jan 1961 Military coup in El Salvador
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26 Jan 1961 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1
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26 Jan 1961 1st woman "personal Physician to President"-JG Travell
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26 Jan 1961 John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds the appointment of Physician to the President.
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27 Jan 1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
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27 Jan 1961 Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
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28 Jan 1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed
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29 Jan 1961 US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
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29 Jan 1961 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
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30 Jan 1961 Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
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30 Jan 1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
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30 Jan 1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
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30 Jan 1961 Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide
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31 Jan 1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
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31 Jan 1961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
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31 Jan 1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
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31 Jan 1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
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31 Jan 1961 Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium
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31 Jan 1961 Kanhai completes twin tons (117 & 115) vs Australia at Adelaide
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31 Jan 1961 NATO secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign
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01 Feb 1961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
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01 Feb 1961 British Minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
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02 Feb 1961 Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
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03 Feb 1961 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
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03 Feb 1961 The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
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04 Feb 1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
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04 Feb 1961 Angolan War of Independence begins.
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06 Feb 1961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill, South Carolina
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06 Feb 1961 KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Feb 1961 Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
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09 Feb 1961 Joseph Ileo appointed Premier of Congo
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10 Feb 1961 AFL's Los Angeles Chargers move to San Diego
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10 Feb 1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
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10 Feb 1961 Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres
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11 Feb 1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
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11 Feb 1961 Robert C Weaver sworn in as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency with then highest federal post by a black
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11 Feb 1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
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12 Feb 1961 Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
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12 Feb 1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
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12 Feb 1961 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125
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12 Feb 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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12 Feb 1961 Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 years 82 days
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13 Feb 1961 An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
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13 Feb 1961 Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Brothers Records
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13 Feb 1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
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14 Feb 1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley, California
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14 Feb 1961 Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
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14 Feb 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
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15 Feb 1961 Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
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15 Feb 1961 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
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15 Feb 1961 Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
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16 Feb 1961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Virginia
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16 Feb 1961 The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
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16 Feb 1961 Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
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16 Feb 1961 China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
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16 Feb 1961 US satellite Explorer 9 is launched
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18 Feb 1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
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19 Feb 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
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19 Feb 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism"
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19 Feb 1961 Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champion all-around skater
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21 Feb 1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km
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21 Feb 1961 Friedrich D
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21 Feb 1961 Gabon adopts constitution
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24 Feb 1961 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
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25 Feb 1961 Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
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25 Feb 1961 Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 meter at release to record 14,10
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27 Feb 1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
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28 Feb 1961 JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
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01 Mar 1961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp
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01 Mar 1961 Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
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01 Mar 1961 United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
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02 Mar 1961 "13 Daughters" opens at 54th St. Theater NYC for 28 performances
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04 Mar 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary General of NATO
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06 Mar 1961 1st London minicabs introduced
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06 Mar 1961 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
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08 Mar 1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours
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09 Mar 1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
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09 Mar 1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
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09 Mar 1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
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09 Mar 1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" and"Never Again"
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09 Mar 1961 Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
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11 Mar 1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
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12 Mar 1961 First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.
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12 Mar 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
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13 Mar 1961 Landslide in the USSR, kills 145
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13 Mar 1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party
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13 Mar 1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title
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13 Mar 1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
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13 Mar 1961 Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
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13 Mar 1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
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14 Mar 1961 George Weiss becomes president of New York Mets
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15 Mar 1961 South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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15 Mar 1961 South Africa withdrews from British Commonwealth
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17 Mar 1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
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17 Mar 1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
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18 Mar 1961 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
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21 Mar 1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000)
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21 Mar 1961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
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24 Mar 1961 New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
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25 Mar 1961 "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St. Theater NYC after 28 performances
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25 Mar 1961 "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances
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25 Mar 1961 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT)
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25 Mar 1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
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25 Mar 1961 Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
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25 Mar 1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
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25 Mar 1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
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26 Mar 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
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27 Mar 1961 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
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27 Mar 1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
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29 Mar 1961 The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
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29 Mar 1961 23rd Amendment is ratified, allows Washington DC residents to vote for President
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29 Mar 1961 After a 4
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29 Mar 1961 KCPT TV channel 19 in Kansas City MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
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30 Mar 1961 The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
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30 Mar 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)
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31 Mar 1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
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01 Apr 1961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
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03 Apr 1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 performances
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03 Apr 1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties
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03 Apr 1961 The Leadbeater's possum is rediscovered in Australia after 72 years.
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05 Apr 1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
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05 Apr 1961 Dutch Governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
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08 Apr 1961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
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08 Apr 1961 A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
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09 Apr 1961 The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
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10 Apr 1961 Dutch Foreign Minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
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10 Apr 1961 Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
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10 Apr 1961 Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to President John F Kennedy about New Guinea
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10 Apr 1961 New Washington Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to Chicago White Sox
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11 Apr 1961 Adolf Eichmann trial begins in Israel
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11 Apr 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
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11 Apr 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
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11 Apr 1961 Israel begins the Adolf Eichman WWII crimes trial
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11 Apr 1961 15th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1
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11 Apr 1961 Austrian 4th & last government of Raab resigns
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12 Apr 1961 The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
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12 Apr 1961 Douglas MacArthur declines offer to become baseball commissioner
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12 Apr 1961 Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
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12 Apr 1961 3rd Grammy Awards Theme From a Summer Place wins, Ray Charles wins 4
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13 Apr 1961 "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances
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13 Apr 1961 UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid
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14 Apr 1961 1st live television broadcast from the Soviet Union
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14 Apr 1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
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14 Apr 1961 US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
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15 Apr 1961 "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
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16 Apr 1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
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16 Apr 1961 15th Tony Awards Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
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16 Apr 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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16 Apr 1961 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
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17 Apr 1961 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment, " Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor win
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17 Apr 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
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17 Apr 1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
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18 Apr 1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
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18 Apr 1961 The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
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20 Apr 1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
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20 Apr 1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
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21 Apr 1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,000 m
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21 Apr 1961 French army revolts in Algeria
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21 Apr 1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,000 meters
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21 Apr 1961 Dirk U Stikker chosen as Secretary-General of NATO
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22 Apr 1961 Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan/Challe in Algeria
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23 Apr 1961 "Tenderloin" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 216 performances
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23 Apr 1961 Algiers putsch by French generals.
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23 Apr 1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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24 Apr 1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
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24 Apr 1961 The Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
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25 Apr 1961 Unmanned Mercury test explodes on launch pad
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25 Apr 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
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25 Apr 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
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25 Apr 1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
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25 Apr 1961 "Young Abe Lincoln" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 27 performances
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25 Apr 1961 France performs nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
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25 Apr 1961 Premier Mo
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26 Apr 1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
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26 Apr 1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961
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27 Apr 1961 NFL officially recognizes Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
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27 Apr 1961 Sierra Leone declares independence from the UK
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27 Apr 1961 Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
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27 Apr 1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
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28 Apr 1961 Lieutenant Colonel Georgi Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 meter altitude
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28 Apr 1961 Warren Spahn pitches 2nd no hitter at 41 beats San Francisco Giants, 1-0
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29 Apr 1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts
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30 Apr 1961 K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
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30 Apr 1961 1st shuttle flights between Washington DC, Boston MA & New York NY begin (Eastern)
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30 Apr 1961 Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
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30 Apr 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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30 Apr 1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
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30 Apr 1961 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays hits 4 homeruns in a game
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01 May 1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
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01 May 1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
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01 May 1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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01 May 1961 Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
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01 May 1961 The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
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03 May 1961 Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
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04 May 1961 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
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04 May 1961 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
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04 May 1961 CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
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04 May 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
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04 May 1961 South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
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04 May 1961 Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
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04 May 1961 American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
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05 May 1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
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05 May 1961 The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
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06 May 1961 87th Kentucky Derby: John Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 2:04
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06 May 1961 Omer Vanaudenhove chosen Chairman of Belgium Liberal Party
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07 May 1961 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
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08 May 1961 1st practical sea water conversion plant - Freeport, Texas
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08 May 1961 Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
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09 May 1961 Baltimore Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs. Minn Twins
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09 May 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
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09 May 1961 Jim Gentile is 4th to hit grand slams in consecutive innings
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09 May 1961 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
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10 May 1961 "Beyond the Fringe, " premieres in London
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10 May 1961 "Beyond the Fringe" premieres in London
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12 May 1961 Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
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14 May 1961 American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
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14 May 1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
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14 May 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open
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15 May 1961 "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
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15 May 1961 "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
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15 May 1961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
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15 May 1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
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16 May 1961 Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
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16 May 1961 13th Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
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17 May 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
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18 May 1961 "Donnybrook!" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 68 performances
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19 May 1961 Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
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19 May 1961 At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
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19 May 1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen
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20 May 1961 Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers, " premieres in Schwetzingen
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20 May 1961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
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20 May 1961 87th Preakness: Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6
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20 May 1961 Mauritania adopts constitution
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20 May 1961 White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery AL
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21 May 1961 American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
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21 May 1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
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22 May 1961 "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1
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22 May 1961 "Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42
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22 May 1961 An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
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22 May 1961 "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1
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22 May 1961 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Space Needle in Seattle), opens
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24 May 1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
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24 May 1961 American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
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24 May 1961 Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
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24 May 1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
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25 May 1961 Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
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25 May 1961 The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
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25 May 1961 JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
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25 May 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 meters
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26 May 1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
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26 May 1961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
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27 May 1961 1st black light is sold
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27 May 1961 Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup II in Florence
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27 May 1961 President Kennedy announces US goal to reach the Moon
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27 May 1961 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27'
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28 May 1961 Record 27 HRs hit in 7 AL games
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28 May 1961 Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
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28 May 1961 Amnesty International is founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
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28 May 1961 Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
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28 May 1961 Record 27 homeruns hit in 7 American League games
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30 May 1961 Maris hits his 10th and 11th of 61 HRs
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30 May 1961 The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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30 May 1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
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30 May 1961 Roger Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 homeruns
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31 May 1961 The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
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31 May 1961 In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
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31 May 1961 Benfica wins 6th Europe Cup 1 at Bern
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31 May 1961 Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
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31 May 1961 Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated
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31 May 1961 JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris
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31 May 1961 Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Education of New Rochelle, to integrate
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31 May 1961 Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaving the Commonwealth
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01 Jun 1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
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03 Jun 1961 "Wildcat" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 172 performances
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03 Jun 1961 93rd Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Sherluck wins in 2:29.2
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03 Jun 1961 JFK and Khrushchev meet in Vienna
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04 Jun 1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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04 Jun 1961 In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
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08 Jun 1961 English Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
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08 Jun 1961 Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)
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09 Jun 1961 Ryne Duren sets AL record with 7 straight strikeouts against Red Sox
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11 Jun 1961 "Winston Churchill, " last airs on ABC-TV
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11 Jun 1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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11 Jun 1961 Norm Cash becomes 1st Detroit Tiger to hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium
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11 Jun 1961 Roger Maris hits 19th & 20th of 61 HRs
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12 Jun 1961 An ailing Bill Veeck sells his interest in White Sox to Arthur Allyn
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12 Jun 1961 Dutch Lockheed Electricity "Sirius" accident at Cairo, kills 20
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13 Jun 1961 "Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances
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14 Jun 1961 106
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15 Jun 1961 Expansion Washingston Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games
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16 Jun 1961 Discoverer 25 launched
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16 Jun 1961 Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
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16 Jun 1961 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
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16 Jun 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
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17 Jun 1961 "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 performances
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17 Jun 1961 61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
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17 Jun 1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
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18 Jun 1961 CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
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18 Jun 1961 KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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18 Jun 1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
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19 Jun 1961 "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23
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19 Jun 1961 New York Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs
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19 Jun 1961 Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
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19 Jun 1961 Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain
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19 Jun 1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution
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22 Jun 1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints
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23 Jun 1961 Antarctic Treaty goes into effect
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23 Jun 1961 Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak
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23 Jun 1961 Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
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23 Jun 1961 Phillies overcome 9-0, losing 11-2 they score 4 in 8th & 6 in 9th
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23 Jun 1961 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m
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24 Jun 1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 performances
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24 Jun 1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
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24 Jun 1961 Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
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24 Jun 1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
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25 Jun 1961 Baltimore and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
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25 Jun 1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
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25 Jun 1961 Yankee's Roger Maris hits his 40th of 61 HRs
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28 Jun 1961 Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie
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29 Jun 1961 Willie Mays is 4th major leaguer with 3 or more HRs twice in a season
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29 Jun 1961 Launch of Transit 4a, with 1st nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)
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30 Jun 1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
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01 Jul 1961 Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
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01 Jul 1961 KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast
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02 Jul 1961 Maris hits 29th and 30th en route to 61 homers
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05 Jul 1961 80 die in collisions in Algiers
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05 Jul 1961 KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Jul 1961 St. Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs and a double
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06 Jul 1961 Portuguese ship explode near Mozambique, kills 300
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07 Jul 1961 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
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07 Jul 1961 James R Hoffa elected Chairman of Teamsters
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08 Jul 1961 Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies
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08 Jul 1961 Portuguese steamer "Save" breaks up off Mozambique, 227 die
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09 Jul 1961 Turkish voters approve the Turkish Constitution of 1961 in a referendum.
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11 Jul 1961 30th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 in 10 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
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11 Jul 1961 Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
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12 Jul 1961 Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams. Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100,000 families need to be relocated and the death toll exceeds 2,000.
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13 Jul 1961 NL beats AL 5-4 (10 innings) in 30th All Star Game (SF Candlestick)
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14 Jul 1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
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14 Jul 1961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
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15 Jul 1961 "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 68 performances
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15 Jul 1961 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
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15 Jul 1961 Spain accept equal rights for men andwomen
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16 Jul 1961 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
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16 Jul 1961 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
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17 Jul 1961 Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 games
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17 Jul 1961 John Chancellor becomes news anchor of the Today Show
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17 Jul 1961 Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
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19 Jul 1961 Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
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19 Jul 1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
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20 Jul 1961 French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
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21 Jul 1961 Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
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21 Jul 1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
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22 Jul 1961 WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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23 Jul 1961 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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23 Jul 1961 The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
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24 Jul 1961 Roger Maris hits 4 home runs, in a doubleheader
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24 Jul 1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
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24 Jul 1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of the Today Show
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25 Jul 1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
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25 Jul 1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a double header
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29 Jul 1961 Bob Dylan injured in car accident
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29 Jul 1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
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29 Jul 1961 Wallis & Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory
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30 Jul 1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields, Illinois
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31 Jul 1961 31st All Star Baseball Game: 1-1 tie ends by rain at Fenway, Boston
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31 Jul 1961 Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
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31 Jul 1961 At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
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31 Jul 1961 2nd All Star Game of 1961 ends 1-1 due to rain at Fenway Park
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01 Aug 1961 Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford
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01 Aug 1961 German DR limits traffic to West Berlin
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01 Aug 1961 New SF Hall of Justice opens
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01 Aug 1961 Whitney Young Jr named Executive Director of National Urban League
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01 Aug 1961 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
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02 Aug 1961 Cyrille Adula becomes Premier of Congo
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02 Aug 1961 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
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03 Aug 1961 The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
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04 Aug 1961 28th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Philadelphia 28, All-Stars 14 (66,000)
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05 Aug 1961 Chicago Bears (NFL) beat Mont Alouettes (CFL) 34-16 in Montreal
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06 Aug 1961 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
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06 Aug 1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
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06 Aug 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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07 Aug 1961 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
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07 Aug 1961 Soviet Premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
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08 Aug 1961 Ham Tigercats (CFL) beat the Buffalo Bills (NFL) 38-21 in Hamilton, Ontario
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08 Aug 1961 Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
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09 Aug 1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
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10 Aug 1961 First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
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10 Aug 1961 England applies for membership in the European Common Market
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11 Aug 1961 The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
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11 Aug 1961 Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
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13 Aug 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
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13 Aug 1961 East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
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13 Aug 1961 Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
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14 Aug 1961 Philadelphia Phillies lose 17th straight game
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15 Aug 1961 Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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16 Aug 1961 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
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16 Aug 1961 Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
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17 Aug 1961 Building of the Berlin Wall begins
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17 Aug 1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
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18 Aug 1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed
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19 Aug 1961 US Vice President Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
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20 Aug 1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
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21 Aug 1961 Jomo Kenyatta freed in Kenya
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22 Aug 1961 Maris hits his 50th of 61 homers
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23 Aug 1961 Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
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23 Aug 1961 East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin
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23 Aug 1961 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
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24 Aug 1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
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25 Aug 1961 Brazilian President Janio Quadros, resigns
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26 Aug 1961 Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
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27 Aug 1961 Francis the Talking Mule is the mystery guest on "What's My Line"
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30 Aug 1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
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30 Aug 1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
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30 Aug 1961 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
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30 Aug 1961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
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30 Aug 1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
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31 Aug 1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
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01 Sep 1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
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01 Sep 1961 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
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04 Sep 1961 Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
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04 Sep 1961 US authorizes Agency for International Development
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05 Sep 1961 JFK begins underground nuclear testing
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05 Sep 1961 President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
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05 Sep 1961 The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
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06 Sep 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
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07 Sep 1961 João Goulart becomes President of Brazil.
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09 Sep 1961 Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962
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10 Sep 1961 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64)
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10 Sep 1961 81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62)
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10 Sep 1961 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
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10 Sep 1961 Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
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11 Sep 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
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11 Sep 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance
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12 Sep 1961 The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
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12 Sep 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
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13 Sep 1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV
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13 Sep 1961 Battles between UN and Katanga troops in Congo
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13 Sep 1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premiers on TV
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13 Sep 1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
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14 Sep 1961 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of the USSR
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15 Sep 1961 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
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15 Sep 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
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16 Sep 1961 CDU loses West German election
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16 Sep 1961 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
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16 Sep 1961 The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
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16 Sep 1961 Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
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17 Sep 1961 The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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17 Sep 1961 Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
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18 Sep 1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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18 Sep 1961 The NAFC and CCCF merge into CONCACAF.
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20 Sep 1961 James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
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20 Sep 1961 Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
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20 Sep 1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
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20 Sep 1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
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21 Sep 1961 Maiden flight of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
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21 Sep 1961 Antonio Abertondo swims the English Channel round trip (44 miles)
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22 Sep 1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 minutes
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23 Sep 1961 Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak
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23 Sep 1961 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
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24 Sep 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
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25 Sep 1961 KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Sep 1961 "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
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26 Sep 1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
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27 Sep 1961 Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
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27 Sep 1961 Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
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27 Sep 1961 Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the UN
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28 Sep 1961 "Doctor Kildare, " debuts on NBC-TV
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28 Sep 1961 "Hazel, " starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV
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28 Sep 1961 "Purlie Victorious, " a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway
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28 Sep 1961 Ted Williams hits a HR on his last at bat
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28 Sep 1961 A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
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28 Sep 1961 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
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28 Sep 1961 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
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29 Sep 1961 "Detectives, " TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
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29 Sep 1961 Mamum Kuzbari becomes Premier of Syria
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30 Sep 1961 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
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01 Oct 1961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
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01 Oct 1961 KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Oct 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Open
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01 Oct 1961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs (off of Tracy Stallard)
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01 Oct 1961 WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Oct 1961 WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
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01 Oct 1961 The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
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01 Oct 1961 East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
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02 Oct 1961 "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
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02 Oct 1961 WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, DC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Oct 1961 WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Oct 1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
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03 Oct 1961 "Mr Ed" premieres
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03 Oct 1961 "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances
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03 Oct 1961 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Oct 1961 China and Nepal sign treaty
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06 Oct 1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
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06 Oct 1961 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar and Novaya Zemlya USSR
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07 Oct 1961 "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances
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07 Oct 1961 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
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08 Oct 1961 US Constellation crashes at Richmond Virginia, 74 die
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09 Oct 1961 New York Yankees beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 58th World Series
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09 Oct 1961 Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
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09 Oct 1961 US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to Police
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09 Oct 1961 Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
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09 Oct 1961 World Series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
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09 Oct 1961 Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2 / 3 consecutive inning
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10 Oct 1961 "Milk & Honey" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 543 performances
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10 Oct 1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets
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10 Oct 1961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
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11 Oct 1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100 m
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14 Oct 1961 "How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St. NYC for 1415 performances
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17 Oct 1961 22nd Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
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17 Oct 1961 Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
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17 Oct 1961 Scores of Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are massacred by the Paris police at the instigation of former Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Prefecture of Police.
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17 Oct 1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
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17 Oct 1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hung Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down, It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
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18 Oct 1961 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack
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20 Oct 1961 The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
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21 Oct 1961 Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
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22 Oct 1961 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium
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22 Oct 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan
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23 Oct 1961 "Kwamina" opens at 54th St. Theater NYC for 32 performances
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24 Oct 1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 performances
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26 Oct 1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle made a flight test
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27 Oct 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya and Sary Shagan USSR
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27 Oct 1961 NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
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27 Oct 1961 Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
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27 Oct 1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
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27 Oct 1961 American Basketball League starts play
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27 Oct 1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN
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28 Oct 1961 "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 796 performances
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28 Oct 1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for New York Mets
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29 Oct 1961 Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
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30 Oct 1961 UN unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the UN
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30 Oct 1961 Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
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30 Oct 1961 Because of "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker instead.
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30 Oct 1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
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30 Oct 1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
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31 Oct 1961 Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal
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31 Oct 1961 Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras
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31 Oct 1961 In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Vladimir Lenin's Tomb.
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01 Nov 1961 Fifty thousand women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.
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03 Nov 1961 General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general
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04 Nov 1961 Karamanlis becomes Premier of Greece
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06 Nov 1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
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08 Nov 1961 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
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09 Nov 1961 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
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09 Nov 1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m
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11 Nov 1961 Adulterous couple up mestkar through Staphorst riding
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11 Nov 1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
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11 Nov 1961 Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
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13 Nov 1961 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Nov 1961 Comet C / 1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
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15 Nov 1961 Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
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15 Nov 1961 UN bans nuclear arms
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16 Nov 1961 Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
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18 Nov 1961 "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances
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18 Nov 1961 "Kwamina" closes at 54th St. Theater NYC after 32 performances
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18 Nov 1961 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
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18 Nov 1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
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19 Nov 1961 Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs. New York Titans (49-13)
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20 Nov 1961 WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting
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22 Nov 1961 Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
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22 Nov 1961 Producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
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22 Nov 1961 St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws
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25 Nov 1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
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26 Nov 1961 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
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27 Nov 1961 KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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27 Nov 1961 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
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28 Nov 1961 Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy
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28 Nov 1961 General Meeting of the UN debates about New-Guinea
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29 Nov 1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Mississippi
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29 Nov 1961 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th Director of CIA
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29 Nov 1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
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29 Nov 1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
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30 Nov 1961 Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
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30 Nov 1961 USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership
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02 Dec 1961 Wind Bell, journal of SF Zen Center, begins publishing
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02 Dec 1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
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03 Dec 1961 Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
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03 Dec 1961 Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
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03 Dec 1961 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
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04 Dec 1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Dec 1961 Smallest New York Knick, 49th St. Madison Square Garden crowd - 1,300 (snowstorm)
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04 Dec 1961 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
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04 Dec 1961 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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06 Dec 1961 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
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08 Dec 1961 Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
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08 Dec 1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
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08 Dec 1961 S Africa vs. New Zealand, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock
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08 Dec 1961 Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
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09 Dec 1961 "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 performances
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09 Dec 1961 SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
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09 Dec 1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
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09 Dec 1961 Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
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10 Dec 1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
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10 Dec 1961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
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10 Dec 1961 Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
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10 Dec 1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
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11 Dec 1961 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
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11 Dec 1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
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11 Dec 1961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 weeks
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11 Dec 1961 JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
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12 Dec 1961 Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany, Georgia
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12 Dec 1961 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
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13 Dec 1961 Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
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13 Dec 1961 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
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13 Dec 1961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music's 1st million $ seller
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14 Dec 1961 Tanganyika joins the United Nations.
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14 Dec 1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
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15 Dec 1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
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15 Dec 1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
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15 Dec 1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
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15 Dec 1961 JFK visits Puerto Rico
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15 Dec 1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
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16 Dec 1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC after 55 performances
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17 Dec 1961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
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17 Dec 1961 Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
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17 Dec 1961 Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
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17 Dec 1961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro circus tent in Niteroi Brazil; 323 die
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17 Dec 1961 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
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18 Dec 1961 For 2nd consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
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18 Dec 1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
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18 Dec 1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs Los Angeles
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18 Dec 1961 Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
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18 Dec 1961 KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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19 Dec 1961 India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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19 Dec 1961 British government begins decimal coin system
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19 Dec 1961 Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization
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21 Dec 1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" and"Ready Teddy"
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21 Dec 1961 JFK and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda
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21 Dec 1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
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21 Dec 1961 JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda
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22 Dec 1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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23 Dec 1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62 million worth of food & medical supplies
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23 Dec 1961 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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23 Dec 1961 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
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24 Dec 1961 Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
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27 Dec 1961 "Subways Are for Sleeping" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 205 performances
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27 Dec 1961 Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
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27 Dec 1961 Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping" premieres at St James Theater NYC for 205 performances
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28 Dec 1961 Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana" premieres in New York NY
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30 Dec 1961 Moscow: premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 4th Symphony (out 1936)
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31 Dec 1961 "lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
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31 Dec 1961 1st performance of the Beach Boys
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31 Dec 1961 Green Bay Packers shutout New York Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
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31 Dec 1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
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31 Dec 1961 Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name
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31 Dec 1961 Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
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