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1961 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.
July 31 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history). August – USA founds Alliance for Progress.
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In the worst airplane crash in the history of Finland, all 25 persons on Aero OY Flight 311 died when the DC-3 crashed shortly after takeoff from Vaasa while en route to Kronoby. [8] The plane impacted in trees 6 miles (9.7 km) away, near the village of Koivulahti. A subsequent investigation concluded that both the pilot and co-pilot had been ...
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Image credits: historians #3. East German soldier helps a little boy sneak across the Berlin Wall the day it was erected in 1961. The boy had been left behind in the chaos of people fleeing to be ...
November 5, 1961: Mamie Stewart's body discovered after 42 years. The remains of Welsh chorus girl Mamie Stuart, who had disappeared in 1919, were located 42 years after her death. Three amateur cave explorers had gone into an abandoned lead mine at Brandy Cove in Wales, and found a sack protruding from a stone slab. Looking for a possible ...
December 1, 1961: U.S. Department of Defense begins distribution of fallout shelter signs [1] December 11, 1961: Three-judge panel in Israel announces guilty verdict in trial of former German general Adolf Eichmann December 28, 1961: Edith Wilson, "The First Woman U.S. President", dies at 89. The following events occurred in December 1961: