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History

1961

Earl Franklin Lowe 58
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 55
Harry Chester Peterson 59
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 59

Lynn Thomas Lowe 22
Peggy LaNae Peterson 18

Population: 3.08 Billion

Art: Music includes Hans Werner, Renzo Rosselini
Crime: Adolf Eichmann the Nazi war criminal found in Argentina and tried in Israel - hung
Culture: Peace Corps established by Kennedy
Entertainment: Stranger in a Strange Land published with themes of sexual freedom
Writers include Graham Greene, Hermann Hesse, JD Salinger, Henry Miller (first US publication – original 1934 in FRA), John Steinbeck, Irving Stone (Agony and the Ecstasy), Joseph Heller (Catch 22)

Films include "West Side Story" "Judgment at Nuremberg" "The Hustler"
Medicine: Female oral contraceptive pill comes on the market
Politics: Alliance for Progress established
UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold killed in plane crash on way to Congo – Burmese U Thant becomes third secretary-general
Religion: Morris and Whitcomb publish about the Genesis flood, attracting new literalist opinion,
Science: First human in space with Yuri Gagarian
600 million year old fossils discovered Leucotomy operations and operations for deafness performed
Nobel Prizes for study of nucleons and gamma ray work also photosynthesis reactions (Calvin), and mechanism of inner ear,
Sports: Bob Schmidt invents skateboard
Chess champ Bobby Fisher retains title
Technology: Weather satellites first used
Atlas computer installed at Harwell
Deaths: Charity Davis age 119y 160d, Carl Jung, Ty Cobb, Ernest Hemingway, Anna Mary Moses (Grandma Moses), Gary Cooper, Erwin Schrodinger

General: Wars of liberation in Portuguese colonies in Africa
Algeria: French police kill 200+ Algerians for protesting police oppression
Burundi: Start of independence
Central African Republic: Renamed from Oubangui-Chari (Ubangi-Shari)
Congo: Death of President Patrice Lumumba
Kanga and Mobuto vie for presidency but Adoula chosen by UN
Egypt: United Arab Republic splits, but Egypt keeps the name to 1971
Gambia: Independence movement
Kenya: Independence movement
Lesotho: Independence movement
Nyasaland: (Malawi) Smallpox
Rwanda: Start of independence
Sierra Leone: Self government
South Africa: Becomes a republic - withdraws from Commonwealth
UN General Assembly condemns apartheid
Swaziland: Independence movement
Tanganyika: Independent to 1964
Tanganyika Conference moves to protect African wildlife
Uganda: Independence movement starts
Zambia: Independence movement
Zanzibar: (Tanzania) becomes independent member of British Commonwealth

General: LAFTA (Latin American) forms with ARG BRA CHI COL ECU PAR MEX PAR PER URU VEN
Cuba: US breaks off diplomatic relations
Bay of Pigs invasion a failure
Castro breaks off diplomatic talks
Belize: Hurricane
Brazil: Political instability
Gran Circo Norte-Americano fire near Rio kills 323 – mostly children
Dominican Republic: Assassination of president Rafael Trujillo - succeeded by son
Honduras: Hurricane
Jamaica: Movement for independence
Trinidad and Tobago: Movement for independence

General: Admission of failed communies in Asia - absorption of Portutuese settlements on borders
China: Museum of the Chinese Revolution opened in Peking
End of Great Chinese famine killing 20-53 million
India: Portuguese India becomes incorporated into India
Meeting of World Council of Churches in Delhi
Java: Mt Ebulobo erupts in Marapi
Smallpox
Laos: Cease fire
Singapore: Indpenedent member of British Commonwealth
Vietnam: Combat breaks out

General: Last journey of "Orient Express" from Paris to Bucharest
Albania: Death of Ex-King Zog
Austria: Application of Archduke Otto of Hapsburg denied
Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna
Great Britain: Queen Elizabeth II tours India Pakistan Persia Cyprus and Ghana
Farthings no longer legal tender in Britain
Goya picture stolen from national gallery in London
Sir Edward Maufe completed Guildford Cathedral in England
Edward Heath Lord Privy Seal begins negotiations for British entry into Common Market
Shetland population drops to 17,814 inhabitants
Spy trials in London – Gordon Lonsdale George Blake and the Krogers
U of Sussex founded
Britain begins application to join EEC
British doctors find breast cancer tumors produce more heat than surrounding tissue
Michael Ramsey appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
New English Bible appears on 350th anniversary
East Germany: Berlin Wall erected by Communists
Adolph Eichmann isolates East
VP Johnson visits
Deutsche Opera W Berlin rebuilt
Soviet Union: Resumption of nuclear testing at Novaya Zemlya
Yuri Gagarian becomes first man in orbit
Soviet cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko dies after flash fire in pure oxygen in training
Moscow synagogues closed
London's Royal Ballet visits
Trans-Siberian Railroad electrified between Moscow and Irkutsk
West Germany: Bavarian meteorite impact discovered

General: Nonalighned conference founded
OPEC founded
United Arab Republic splits back into Egypt Syria and Yemen, but Egypt uses the name to 1971
Israel: Ben-Gurion forms new coalition government
Nazi Adolf Eichmann found guilty in Jerusalem trial
Kuwait: Independent, although claimed by Iraq - British enter to prevent Iraqi occupation
Syria: Army revolt