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- Aug 1 New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens
- Aug 1 Whitney Young Jr named executive director of National Urban League
- Aug 2 Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
- Aug 4 Spokane, Washington reaches August record 108°F
- Aug 5 118°F (48°C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
- Aug 6 1st case of motion sickness in space reported
- Aug 6 Gherman S. Titov is the 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
- Aug 7 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2
Event of Interest
Aug 7 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
- Aug 8 Verne Gagne beats Gene Kiniski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
- Aug 9 James Benton Parsons is 1st African American to be nominated to a US Federal District Court
- Aug 10 UK applies for membership of the European Common Market
- Aug 13 Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
- Aug 15 Keiyo Road is specified as the first driveway in Japan
- Aug 16 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against the division of East Berlin
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Aug 16 Martin Luther King Jr. protests for black voting rights in Miami, Florida
- Aug 17 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
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Aug 19 US vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin
- Aug 20 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
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Aug 21 Kenyan political activist Jomo Kenyatta released from jail after 9 years. Imprisoned during 1952 Mau Mau rebellion with other nationalist leaders by British authorities
- Aug 23 Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
- Aug 23 East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin
- Aug 23 US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
- Aug 24 Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice
- Aug 24 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
- Aug 25 Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
- Aug 26 Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
- Aug 27 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
- Aug 30 James Benton Parsons is confirmed as 1st African American judge of a US District Court
- Aug 30 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
- Aug 30 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
- Aug 31 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
- Sep 1 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
- Sep 1 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
- Sep 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 4 US authorizes Agency for International Development
- Sep 5 US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
- Sep 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
- Sep 10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 11 Founding of the World Wildlife Fund in Morges, Switzerland
- Sep 11 Hurricane Carla strikes near Port O'Connor, Texas with winds of 175 mph
Event of Interest
Sep 12 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
- Sep 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 13 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
- Sep 13 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
- Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 13 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 16 CDU loses West German election
- Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 17 "Car 54, Where are You?" premieres on US TV
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Sep 17 Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC
- Sep 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Sep 18 Transair Sweden DC-6 passenger aircraft chartered by the United Nations for transit to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis, crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia), killing 16, including UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 15 others; official inquiries never determined the cause
- Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 19 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
Event of Interest
Sep 20 African-American student James Meredith is refused enrolment to the segregated University of Mississippi
- Sep 20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Sep 21 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel both ways (44 miles)
- Sep 21 Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter
- Sep 22 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
- Sep 27 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
- Sep 28 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
- Sep 28 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
- Sep 29 Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
- Sep 30 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
- Oct 1 A volcanco believed to be extinct erupts in Tristan da Cunha
- Oct 1 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
- Oct 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 2 USSR performs 250 kilo-ton nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- Oct 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 5 China & Nepal sign treaty
- Oct 6 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
- Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- Oct 9 Tanganyika, in east Africa, becomes independent within British Commonwealth
- Oct 9 US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police
- Oct 9 Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
- Oct 10 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
- Oct 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 11 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
- Oct 11 USSR performs nuclear test
- Oct 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 17 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
- Oct 17 Battle of Paris-police kill 210 Algerians
- Oct 17 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
Event of Interest
Oct 17 NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
- Oct 18 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack
- Oct 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
- Oct 22 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
- Oct 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 26 First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle
- Oct 27 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
- Oct 27 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of United Nations
- Oct 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR
- Oct 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 30 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated
- Oct 31 Federal judge rules that laws in Birmingham, Alabama, against integrated playing fields are illegal
- Oct 31 Hurricane Hattie kills 400 in British Honduras
- Nov 2 Max Frisch's play "Andorra" premieres in Zürich
Election of Interest
Nov 3 UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant as acting Secretary-General after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash
- Nov 4 Konstantinos Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
Event of Interest
Nov 5 India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrives in NY
- Nov 7 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- Nov 8 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die
- Nov 9 Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" premieres in NYC
- Nov 9 The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M White achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
- Nov 11 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New York
- Nov 11 Adulterous couple ride a dung cart through Staphorst, Netherlands
- Nov 11 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
- Nov 11 Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
- Nov 13 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
- Nov 15 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
- Nov 15 UN bans nuclear arms
- Nov 16 United Kingdom limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
- Nov 16 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops
- Nov 18 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
- Nov 18 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
- Nov 26 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
- Nov 28 General Meeting of UN debates New Guinea
Event of Interest
Nov 28 Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher" premieres in Munich
Appointment of Interest
Nov 29 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone
- Nov 29 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
- Nov 29 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
- Nov 29 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
- Nov 30 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Nov 30 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
- Dec 1 The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
Event of Interest
Dec 2 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist & will lead Cuba to Communism
Event of Interest
Dec 4 The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon
- Dec 10 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
- Dec 10 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
- Dec 11 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes released
- Dec 11 JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
- Dec 12 Amateur radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
'The Banality of Evil'
Dec 12 Nazi German army officer Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel
Event of Interest
Dec 13 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
- Dec 14 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
- Dec 15 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel
- Dec 15 JFK visits Puerto Rico
- Dec 15 L. J. Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
- Dec 16 Martin Luther King Jr. joins over 500 jailed demonstrators who had been arrested in Albany, Georgia [1]
- Dec 17 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
- Dec 17 Niteroi Circus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil catches fire; 323 die after disgruntled employee sets fire to the tent
- Dec 18 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
Meeting of Interest
Dec 21 US President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meet in Bermuda
- Dec 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 23 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
- Dec 23 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
- Dec 27 Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
Event of Interest
Dec 28 Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana" premieres in NYC
- Dec 31 Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
- Dec 31 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
- Dec 31 The Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name