Date: August 10, 1961
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crashes during takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing all 37 people on board. Date: September 17, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 17 📅 Events on this day in 1961 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1961East Germany Closes Berlin…
Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the ketch Bluebelle. Date: November 12, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 12 📅 Events on this day in 1961 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1961Explorer 9 Launches in Explorer Program February 16,…
Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: The chimpanzee Ham travels into outer space. Date: January 31, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 31 📅 Events on this day in 1961 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1961Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather Set Manned Balloon Altitude Record, May 4, 1961Kindu Massacre…
Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: The chimpanzee Ham travels into outer space. Date: January 31, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 31 📅 Events on this day in 1961 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1961British Expose Soviet Portland Spy Ring in London, January 9, 1961Eichmann Trial: Adolf Eichmann…
The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective, thus creating the Republic of South Africa, which remains outside the Commonwealth of Nations until 1 June 1994, when South Africa is returned to Commonwealth membership. Date: May 31, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 31 📅 Events on this day in…
Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). Date: July 21, 1961 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 21 📅 Events on this day in 1961 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1961Soviet Union…