Jun 10 Suzanne Clayton's birthday June 10th 1961

Jun 29 Launch of Transit 4a, with first nuclear power supply (SNAP-3)

Jun 16 Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host

Jun 19 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God

Jun 23 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m

Jun 22 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child &My Bonnie, in Hamburg

Jun 16 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris

Jun 16 Ballet performer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union while in Paris.

Jun 19 United Kingdom gives up control of Kuwait

Jun 12 The DND buys 66 F-101 Voodoos in exchange for US control of Pinetree Line, plus a Mutual Air Program for purchase of 200 Canadian-built F-104 Starfighters.

Jun 25 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)

Jun 30 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit

Dec 12 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Albany GA

Dec 09 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania

Dec 17 India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies

Dec 12 Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36

Dec 18 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu

Dec 11 JFK provides US military helicopters and crews to South Vietnam

Dec 04 Tanganyika becomes the 104th member of the UN

Dec 04 Museum of Modern Art hung Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days

Dec 02 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism

Dec 31 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion

Dec 11 Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel

Dec 17 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil

Dec 11 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 wks

Dec 08 Surfin’, The Beach Boys first record, was released on Candix Records. It became a local hit in Los Angeles

Dec 04 Smallest New York Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)

Dec 31 First performance of the Beach Boys

Dec 09 SS Colonel Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel

Dec 15 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel

Aug 04 108ø F, Spokane, WA

Aug 06 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits), 1st case of motion sickness in space reported

Aug 17 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress

Aug 18 Construction on Berlin Wall completed

Aug 01 Beatles first gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club

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