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Centuries : 19th century - 20th century 21st century
Decades : 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 - 1961 - 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
1961 was the last year where it didn't make a difference if you read the year up side down until
6119[?] .
Events
January 3 - President Dwight Eisenhower announced that the United States had severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba .
January 3 - An atomic reactor exploded at National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls[?] , Idaho , killing 3 military technicians.
January 7 - Following a four-day conference conference in Casablanca , five African chiefs of state announced plans for a NATO -type African organization to insure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca[?] involved were Morocco , the United Arab Republic , Ghana , Guinea , and Mali.[?]
January 12 - President Dwight Eisenhower gave his final State of the Union Address to Congress.
January 20 - John F. Kennedy becomes President of the United States
January 25 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference[?] . In it, he announces that the Soviet Union had freed the two surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47[?] reconnaissance plan shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea July 1 , 1960. (see RB-47H shot down[?] )
January 25 - Acting to halt 'leftist excesses,' a junta comprised of two army officers and 4 civilians took over the rule of El Salvador , ousting another junta that had ruled for three months.
January 26 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell[?] to be his physician. This is the first time a woman held this appointment.
January 30 - President John F. Kennedy delivered his first State of the Union Address .
January 31 - Ham , a 37 pound male chimpanzee , was rocketed into space in a test of the Project Mercury capsule designed to carry U.S. astronauts[?] into space.
February 5 - The Sunday Telegraph[?] February 11 - Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
February 14 - Discovery of the chemical elements : Element 103, Lawrencium , is first synthesized (Berkeley, California ).
February 15 - A Boeing 707 crashes in Belgium killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
March 1 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps .
March 3 - Hassan II[?] becomes King of Morocco
March 8 - Max Conrad[?] circumnavigates the earth in eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes setting a new world record.
March 15 - South Africa withdraws from the British Commonwealth
March 29 - The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections.
April 12 - Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space
April 17 - Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba begins, ending in failure April 19
April 25 - Robert Noyce is granted the first patent for an integrated circuit .
April 27 - Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom .
May 14 - American civil rights movement : A Freedom Riders[?] bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
May 19 - Venera program : Venera 1 becomes the first manmade object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however the probe had lost contact with earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
May 21 - American civil rights movement : Alabama Governor John Patterson[?] declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
May 24 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders[?] are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
May 25 - Apollo program : President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon " before the end of the decade.
May 28 - 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
August 13 - Construction of the Berlin Wall begins. Movement between East Berlin and West Berlin remains restricted for the next 28 years, until November 9 , 1989
December 31 - The Marshall Plan expires after having distributed more than $12 billion in foreign aid[?] to rebuild Europe .
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
January 5 - Suzy Amis[?] , actress
January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus , actress
January 21 - Blaise Cendrars , writer
January 26 - Wayne Gretzky , Ice hockey player
February 10 - George Stephanopoulos[?] , political consultant, commentator
February 11 - Mary Docter[?] , American speed skater
February 11 - Becky LeBeau[?] , vocalist
February 11 - Carey Lowell[?] , actress
February 13 - Henry Rollins , musician
February 21 - Davey Allison[?] , automobile racer (+ 1993 )
March 4 - Ray Mancini , boxer
March 14 - Kirby Puckett , baseball player
March 15 - Fabio[?] , model
April 3 - Eddie Murphy , actor and comedian
April 6 - Gene Eugene , actor, lead singer of Adam Again
April 26 - Joan Chen[?] , actress
May 6 - George Clooney , actor
May 13 - Dennis Rodman[?] , basketball player, actor
May 14 - Tim Roth[?] , actor
May 17 - Enya , singer, songwriter
May 29 - Melissa Etheridge , rock musician
July 1 - Diana , English princess
September 2 - Carlos Valderrama , footballer
December 30 - Douglas Coupland , author
Deaths
January 4 - Erwin Schrödinger , physicist
January 10 - Dashiell Hammett , writer
January 17 - Patrice Lumumba , Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
January 21 - Blaise Cendrars , writer
February 11 - Eduard R Verkade[?] , Dutch actor/director
February 11 - Patrice Lumumba , 1st premier of Congo (Kinshasa)[?] ?
February 26 - King Mohammed V of Morocco
March 3 - Paul Wittgenstein , pianist
May 13 - Gary Cooper , actor
June 1 - Melvin Jones , founder of Lions Clubs International
June 30 - Lee DeForest - inventor
October 11 - Chico Marx , member of the Marx Brothers
Nobel Prizes
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