Aero Flight 311 Crashes in Finland, Killing 25 β January 3, 1961
Date: January 3, 1961
Date: January 3, 1961
Cold War: 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. Date: June 4, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on June 4 π Events on this…
Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. Date: May 5, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on May 5 π Events on this day in 1961 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1961Dadra and Nagar Haveli Merged into Union Territory…
Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit. Date: April 25, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on April 25 π Events on this day in 1961 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1961Soviet Navy Tests First Armed Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile, October 20, 1961Explorer 9 Launches in Explorer…
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City. Date: March 30, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on March 30 π Events on this day in 1961 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1961Fidel Castro Declares Cuba Socialist, Abolishes Elections, May 1, 1961Adolf Eichmann Trial Begins…
American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. Date: May 21, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on May 21 π Events on this day in 1961 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1961Konstantinos Dovas…
The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri. Date: October 17, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 17 π Events on this day in 1961 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1961De Gaulle Assumes Emergency Powers During Algiers Putsch, April 23, 1961Kennedy Nominates Thurgood Marshall to…